The Further Education College and the Higher Vocational Education College of the ShaanXi Normal University form the largest adult education base in the Northwest of China, which functions not only in teaching but also in managing. The two colleges now provide more than 30 diploma-granted specialties and over 20 non-diploma-granted training courses.

With various educational forms, including vocational training, correspondence education, the adult further education center now also provides learners with education on different levels: postgraduate programmes and the programmes not only for the high school graduates but also for the students from vocational training schools and vocational training programmes.

This distinguishing feature of the education system, which contains normal education, teachers’ education and vocational education, has attracted thousands of learners from all parts of the country to come to our colleges to realize their dreams.

The administrative headquarters , as well as some of the sparetime teaching classes and lectures, is on the beautiful YanTa Campus of ShaanXi Normal University. And the full-time adult education section and the vocational training education section site in the north suburbs of Xian City, not far from the ancient city walls.

The adult education network with 50 teaching sites covers almost 5 provinces in the northwest, also some provinces as ShanDong, ShanXi, HeNan, HuBei, HuNan and ShenZhen city etc.
There are 538 full-time and part-time teachers working in the different departments of the college, 95 of them are professors, 228 assistant professors. In the resent years, they have published more than 300 academic theses in the important or authoritative periodicals and written or published more than 10 monographic books.

The Further Education College as well as the Higher Vocational Education College is the only institution in the Northwest which is authorized to grant Master' degree in Pedagogics and took charge of the priority researching task concerning the national education science study during the time of the tenth “Five Year Plan”; the journal run by the college has a wide-ranging influence in the field of adult education.

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