Zhao
Yan is an employee of Intel (China) Co. After graduation
from a vocational senior middle school as a documentation
and clerical work major, she worked at Intel as secretary
and marketer. Constantly under heavy work pressure, she
realized the urgency of continuing to study. She attended
an economics and trade university as an economics and
trade major in her spare time. After graduation, she took
finance and accounting courses at the Correspondence School
of China People's University. Zhao Yan has clear objectives
for her studies: to win a graduation certificate for adult
higher education; and to enrich herself for an increasingly
competitive society. The Correspondence School of China
People's University where Zhao Yan studied is one of China's
earliest educational institutions for adults. By 1999,
the school had turned out 60,000 graduates.
China's adult education once was referred to as education for workers and farmers, or amateur education for working people. It can be divided into the award type and the
non-award type. The award type of adult education has
the tiers of undergraduate studies, professional training,
secondary specialized education and secondary
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school education; and means of schooling include adult
colleges, evening colleges,
correspondence colleges, the
self-study/ examination program, radio
and TV universities, and adult secondary schools.
The non-award type of adult education includes illiteracy-elimination
education, rural training for practical skills, on-the-job
training, single-subject qualification certificate education,
specialization certificate education and continuing education.
Adult education has the greatest number of potential students.
It is the earliest to use a distance educational system
and makes lifelong learning possible.
The function
of adult education in China is: to provide necessary education
and training of culture knowledge, professional technology
and practice ability for those personnel who are incumbent
or unemployed and those who need to transfer to other
positions; to provide illiteracy eliminating education;
to provide fundamental or higher education for people
who have left formal schools according to their literate
level and practical need, and the eligible students could
get corresponding graduation certificates; to provide
further education to those technicians and managers who
have accepted higher education but need to renew and |
