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College of Vocational and Adult Education
The College of Vocational Education & Adult Education is authorized to manage the continuous education. Taking advantage of the superior experimental condition for teaching & learning and the strong force of qualified teachers, the college opens to the society and launches the vocational education and adult education. Meanwhile, as the training base for the national key construction of vocational education teachers, the branch training center for the agricultural cadres of central government in Northwest A&F University and the training and teaching base for the cadres in Shaanxi Province, the college is one of the thirteen experimental units for teachers from secondary vocational schools to study for a master’s degree, and one of the test sites of the national computer skills examination.
Guided by the concept of the comprehensive education of teaching, research and enterprise, market orientation and quality awareness, the college, after years of development, has set up an adult education system, which is multi-type (vocational education, adult education, non-academic education training), multi-level (for juniors, for undergraduates, for graduates), multidisciplinary (agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, law), and in varied forms (full time, correspondence, short-term training). The college has also established the guiding ideology and principles characterized with demand-driven, standardized management and serving the university and the society. And a strong administration team and a force of experienced and academically proficient teachers have also come into being, hence a complete system of education. The college has turned out about 50,000 vocational graduates, adult graduates and all kinds of trainees in recent years. From the beginning of 1990s, the college has founded 22 correspondence stations in Shaanxi, Yunnan, Tianjin and other ten provinces, municipals or autonomous regions. At present, there are nearly 10,000 students all together for higher vocational education, full-time adult education, and higher adult correspondence education.
Relying on the teaching resources of the university, the college has developed nine disciplines for postgraduates, namely, Agricultural Economics and Management, Animal Nutrition, Fruit Trees, Cilviculture, Agricultural Machinery, etc.; and more than 20 disciplines for vocational teacher graduates such as Agricultural and Forest Economics and Management, E-commerce, Facility Agriculture, Agricultural Machinery, Horticulture, Gardening, Water Conservancy & Hydropower, etc.; and over 50 disciplines for adult education students; and over 40 non-academic training programs on Building of New-typed Rural Area, Agricultural Industrialization &Social and Economic Development in Rural Areas, Agricultural Economics and Management, Modern Agricultural Technology, Ecological Environment and Sustainable Development, etc..
Taking the teaching quality as the drive for development, the college pays due attention to the quality of teaching by keeping up with the latest educational ideas and exploring actively new educational models. In the process of teaching, the college focuses on enhancing students’ ability and skills for cultivating high quality talents. The college will intensify the reform, carry on with the integrity of teaching, research and enterprise, and strive to explore new fields for vocational education, adult education and continuous education.