Characteristics and benefits of adult higher education

The object of adult higher education is mainly the workers who go into production and work after graduating from high school or junior college, and it is the education of training "the current generation". Adult higher education and general higher education compared with its obvious characteristics, these characteristics are: the broad nature of the education object, the main body of the social, educational functions of the diversity, flexibility and openness of the way of schooling, the development of rapidity and continuity and educational effectiveness, relevance and applicability. A deep understanding of these characteristics of adult higher education can not only improve the status and role of adult higher education in the cause of socialist construction, improve the quality of adult education, but also the theoretical study of adult higher education, deepen the reform has an important guiding significance.

Comparison of Entrance Threshold

The entrance examination for adult higher education is a national unified enrollment examination, which is based on the results of the examination by the school on the basis of merit, and the unified examination is held once a year.

Self-study exams have no entrance exams, candidates take single subject exams, pass one, issue a certificate of competency, after passing all subjects, issued a certificate of qualification. There are two exams per year, and candidates choose the exam subjects according to the situation.

The radio and television universities also do not have to take the test, as long as they have the relevant qualifications required to enroll.

The network university by the enrollment of independent proposition, the organization of the examination of the state recognized qualifications of 67.

In general, the self-study exams and radio and television universities to implement the "lenient entry, strict exit", basically no threshold for admission; while the adult college entrance examination and the network examination requirements after the first test enrollment. The difference is that the adult college entrance examination is to participate in the national examination, network examination by the admission institutions independent examination. From the point of view of the degree of difficulty of the examination, part of the network due to the high visibility of the university, the enrollment of professional and school strong professional, so the entrance requirements are relatively high, the test questions also have a certain degree of difficulty.

Comparison of learning modes

Adult college entrance exams are mainly off-the-job learning and amateur learning, correspondence learning and other learning modes.

The self-study examination is mainly self-study, but also can participate in the self-study classes organized by other social training forces or examination schools.

Network education has two ways of teaching, one is online through the network, students can browse through the network between classes, complete assignments, questions and communication through BBS, and the second is to focus on face-to-face teaching. Many foreign students who wish to enter their preferred study, can be reported through the network of colleges and universities, to receive distance learning to complete their studies.

The University of Radio and Television has both online classes and face-to-face instruction. For those who have an unstable place of residence and may need to travel for a long period of time, they may consider choosing to study at a radio and television university because of its longer retention period. If they change their place of work or residence, all they need is a letter of recommendation from the TVU they are enrolled in, and the student can continue their studies at a TVU in another city without having to pay any other additional fees.

All four paths can be studied in your spare time, but for those who are not strong in self-study and have poor self-control, choose to study in a centralized way.

Comparison of enrollment objects

The enrollment scope of adult college entrance examination, network university, radio and television university includes in-service, practitioners and other people in the society, and it is generally required that those who start from high school to enroll in the college and bachelor's degree must be those who have obtained graduation certificates from ordinary high schools, secondary specialized schools or vocational and technical schools or equivalent qualifications. If you want to apply for a bachelor's degree from a specialized school, you should have a certificate of graduation from a specialized school or a specialized school or above in the national education series.

Adult college entrance examination is mainly to recruit local household registration students, foreign students can also be correspondence learning, network universities and radio and television universities due to their own teaching methods of the advantages of enrollment without geographical restrictions.

The candidates to participate in the self-study examination are not subject to gender, age, ethnicity, race and has been the limitations of the degree of education, belongs to the completely open education, even if only have a junior high school diploma, you can enroll in the self-study examination.

Comparison of years of study

The study time of the adult college entrance examination varies according to the level of enrollment, specialization and mode of study, and the shortest is 2 years, and the longest is 5 or 6 years.

The self-study exams take sub-course exams, accumulation of credits, and finally obtain a diploma, and are not subject to the limitations of the semester and academic year system.

Radio and television university education credit system, the school system for two years, the school registration is valid for eight years.

Network education is also generally flexible, allowing students to freely choose the duration of study. Tongji University, for example, enrolls architectural engineering higher education for 4-6 years, higher education for 2-4 years, and specializing in the study period of 2.5-5 years.

Comparison of study costs

To take the adult college entrance examination, the tuition fee of public schools is usually about 3,500 yuan per academic year, and private schools are a bit higher.

Self-study exams if only self-study, as long as the payment of examination fees and textbook fees, the examination fee of 20 yuan a subject, if on the tutorial class, then there is a tutorial fee, tutorials cost about 500 yuan per subject.

Broadcasting and television university fees by semester, the cost of amateur learning is lower than full-time study. In the case of Shanghai TV University, for example, the cost per semester (including books) is about 1,570 yuan, and the cost per semester is 2,250 yuan.

The fees of online universities are generally calculated according to the credits, and different schools charge different standards. Generally a credit is about more than 100 yuan, if you choose a major graduation needs 80 credits, tuition is about 10,000 yuan. For example, Tongji University senior college total credits of 75 points (except for construction engineering), the cost of each credit in Shanghai is 150 yuan, then the cost of each academic year is 4500 yuan; the total number of credits of senior college courses is 160 points, the cost of each academic year is 7200 yuan. However, relatively speaking, network university students can save accommodation, food, transportation and a series of costs. From the point of view of the total cost, the cost of self-testing and e-learning is relatively low, more suitable for those who do not have a high income.

Comparison of enrollment institutions

Adult colleges and universities can be divided into ordinary colleges and universities organized by the evening college, correspondence classes, independent adult colleges and universities, such as the District Amateur University, University of Workers, as well as radio and television universities, management cadres College, Institute of Education, etc., and in recent years, the new private colleges and universities and independent secondary colleges and independent self-study exams to ordinary colleges and universities to the main school, the main school or the social forces of training institutions provide training for self-study exams. The organization provides training for self-study exams.

The enrollment institutions of the University of Television is the Central University of Television and the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, municipalities with separate plans and independently set up the University of Television.

Network education enrollment institutions are state-approved with the qualification of distance network education of 67 general colleges and universities, some schools of network education is and adult education *** with the College of Continuing Education under the same, some separately set up a college of network education.

When choosing to enroll in various types of institutions, it is important to understand whether they have the qualifications recognized by the state to run the school.

Comparison of the gold content of the certificate

Adult college entrance examination, self-study examination, EDI, network education are issued by the state-recognized academic certificates, diploma recipients of the same treatment with the same kind of graduates of ordinary colleges and universities, can participate in the master's degree examination, civil service exams, the judicial examination, and so on. The first time I saw this, I was able to get a good deal of money.

But the effectiveness of the four certificates is still somewhat different, the self-study examination because of its academic credentials to obtain the most difficult, so the recognition is relatively high, at present, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and other 26 countries recognize China's higher education self-study examination diploma.

The diploma of ECTU is also recognized by many countries such as Britain, the United States, Japan, Australia and so on. As for the candidates to participate in the network examination, the key does not lie in the network education diploma itself, they are more important to the network education college relies on the brand, professional strength. Many colleges and universities set up network college specialties are the school's key specialties. Facts have proved that similar to Fudan, Tongji and other network college students in employment also has considerable competitiveness, Fudan Network Education College graduated this year, the employment rate of students in more than 85%, employment units are not lacking in PricewaterhouseCoopers and other world-renowned enterprises.