2. Planned Degree/Diploma Education

Planned Degree/Diploma Education consists of Higher Junior College Education, Diploma-to-Degree Education and Secondary Technical Education:

1. Higher Junior College Education includes: (1) the Full-time Junior College Education, refers to the education enrolling the high school graduates who have passed the unified national college entrance examination to receive higher diploma education (the enrolment of students in the Full-time Junior College Education programme ceased in the CRTVUs in 2006). (2) Adult Junior College Education, referring to part-time or full-time education (including education for a second junior college diploma) enrolling students who have finished high school or have the same educational background and have passed the exam organized by the national adult higher education institutions.

2. Diploma-to-Degree Education, referring to education enrolling students who have passed the national entrance examination.

3. Secondary Technical Education.

In 2007, 131,900 junior college students in the CRTVUs graduated, 55,200 were newly enrolled, and there were 238,700 active students. Among them, 62,000 graduates and 89,700 active students involved in Full-time Junior College Education, while 69,900 graduates, 55,200 newly enrolled students and 149,000 active students were included in the Adult Junior College Education programme.

In 2007, there were 301 graduates, 285 newly enrolled students and 453 active students in the Diploma-to-Degree programme around the country.

In 2007, there were 339 courses in 10 disciplines and 48 second-rank disciplines provided by the Adult Junior College Education programme and Diploma-to-Degree programme in the CRTVUs. See Table 5 for the details.

Table 6. Number of Students in Full-time Junior College Education Programme in 2007

Note: (1) Sequence is arranged according to the numbers of the active students.

In 2007, according to the national statistics on the general higher junior college education, with the implementation of the "Contents of Courses in General Higher Vocational Education and Junior College Education (for statistical use)" issued in 2005 by the Ministry of Education, 19 categories with 78 second-rank categories were included. The Full-time Junior College Education Programme of the CRTVUs offered 187 courses in 50 second-rank disciplines of 19 disciplines. See Table 6 for the details.

In 2007, there were 58,700 graduates, 43,700 new students enrolled and 129,900 active students from the secondary technical education programmes of the CRTVUs.

Ⅱ. The Non-Degree Education (Continuing Education and Training)

In 2007, in non-degree education (continuing education and training) there were 1,051,300 graduates with a certificate. There were 296,400 registered students (referring to students who registered for study and have not yet finished school). See Table 7 for the details.
 

Table 7. Number of Students in Non-Degree Programme in 2007

unit: ten thousand/session

In 2007, in the non-degree programmes (continuing education and training), there were 475,100 students in "certificate training", and 229,100 students doing "on-the-job training", totaling 704,200, constituting 66.98% of the total number of students with a certificate.

In 2007, in the non-degree programmes (continuing education and training), 45,100 students graduated from the foreign languages training, 107,500 from the accounting training and 107,100 students from the computer training, with the above three kinds totaling 259,700, constituting 24.70% of the total number of students involved in continuing education and training.

Ⅲ. Staff

In 2007, there were a total of 86,100 staff members in the CRTVUs, including 49,600 full-time teachers, 10,300 teaching support staff, 1,600 researchers, 16,300 administrative staff, 7,000 logistics staff and 1,300 other staff members.

Among all the staff, 18,000 held senior professional titles, 32,300 held mid-level professional titles, and 19,500 held junior professional titles, constituting 20.96%, 37.52% and 22.63% respectively of the total. Among the full-time teachers, 13,200 held senior professional titles, and 21,800 held mid-level professional titles, accounting for 26.53% and 43.91% respectively of the total.

In 2007, there were 37,100 part-time teachers employed by the CRTVUs, 13,300 of them holding senior professional titles and 18,300 with mid-level professional titles, constituting 35.78% and 49.31% respectively of the total. See Figure 3.

In 2007, of the full-time teachers, 190 had a doctorate, 4,351 had a master's degree, 41,977 had a bachelor's degree, and 3,076 had a diploma or lesser qualification, constituting 0.38%, 8.77%, 84.64%, and 6.20% of the total respectively. In comparison with 2006, the number of full-time teachers with a bachelor’s degree or above increased. In particular, the number of full-time teachers with a master’s degree increased significantly, whilst the number of full-time teachers with a junior college diploma or lesser qualification decreased.

In 2007, the full-time teachers in 11 disciplines included 6,256 in Economics, 3,769 in Law, 4,441 in Pedagogy, 10,834 in Literature (including 4,297 in Foreign Languages), 3,313 in Philosophy and History, 5,732 in Natural Science, 10,825 in Engineering (including 5,083 in Computer Science), 559 in Agronomy (including 97 in Forestry), 963 in Medicine, and 2,902 in Management.

In 2007, the age structure of the full-time teachers was: 12,500 at or below aged 30, constituting 25.18%; 19,500 between aged 31 to 40, constituting 39.37%; 13,000 between aged 41 to 50, constituting 26.20%; 4,500 between aged 51 to 60, constituting 8.99%, and 100 at or above aged 61, constituting 0.26%. Overall, most were young or middle-aged teachers in the CRTVUs.

Ⅳ. The Assets and College Buildings

In 2007, fixed assets with property rights held by the CRTVUs were valued at 20.262 billion yuan, including 5.223 billion yuan of machines and equipment for teaching and research; there were 46.4789 million books, 19.9737 million electronic books, 272,300 computers for teaching, language laboratories providing 72,700 seats, and multimedia classrooms  providing 436, 200 seats. Compared with 2006, the fixed assets with property rights held by the CRTVUs increased by 0.989 billion yuan including 0.425 billion yuan of equipment for teaching and research.

Fixed assets without property rights were valued at 4.625 billion yuan, with 0.678 billion yuan of the assets being used independently, and 3.947 billion yuan of them being shared.

In 2007, the total construction area of college buildings with property rights was 18.6795 million square meters, including 8.5851 million square meters for teaching and support use, 1.9716 million square meters for administrative offices, and 5.7709 million square meters for living quarters.

The total construction area of the college buildings without property rights amounted to 5.0236 million square meters, of which 1.1530 million square meters were used exclusively by the CRTVUs and 3.8705 million square meters were shared.