Heyuan polytechnic, formerly known as Guangdong Laolong Normal School, was founded in 1930. It is one of the provincial key normal schools that cooperate with UNICEF to strengthen teacher training. Over the past 70 years, it has sent more than 1 10,000 talents to the country, all over the world. The school has excellent school spirit and rich experience in running a school, especially in training primary school teachers, forming a unique and effective school-running model, undertaking scientific research projects of the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Department of Education, and achieving remarkable results. In recent years, more than 100 educational and teaching papers have been published in national and provincial newspapers and won prizes. The school has been rated as the advanced collective of general education system in Guangdong Province for many times. 1996 standardized the running conditions of normal schools in the whole province, and 1997 was rated as the advanced unit of teachers' morality construction in the whole province. In 2000, Huizhou University set up a specialized class, which was approved by Guangdong Provincial People's Government in May 20001(Guangdong Government Letter? 200 1? 2 14) was upgraded to heyuan polytechnic and enrolled students in autumn.
Nowadays, the college has fully implemented the policy of "founding, being knowledgeable and strengthening specialty", consolidated the basic position of normal education, gradually accelerated the development pace of vocational education, strictly managed and paid close attention to quality, and made great progress and breakthrough in all aspects of work, which has been recognized by the society. In September of 20001year, the college was rated as a civilized unit in Guangdong province, and in 2002, it was selected as an experimental school to undertake the national key scientific research project (2 1 century China School Excellent Education Development and Research) by the Chinese Sports Science Society.
The college is located in Longchuan County, under the Zhuofeng Mountain on the Dongjiang River, with lush vegetation, elegant environment and pleasant scenery. Covering area140,000 square meters and building area10,000 square meters. There are teaching buildings, office buildings, gymnasiums, libraries, science and technology museums, music buildings, alumni halls and student dormitories. There is a basketball court, a gym and a dance practice room in the gymnasium. This library has 1 1 ten thousand books. The Science Museum is equipped with a modern multifunctional audio-visual system. The student dormitory is equipped with a telephone and a fan. The alumni hall is equipped with advanced lighting and acoustics, which can accommodate 2000 people. In order to further improve the school facilities, the college invests tens of millions of yuan every year through various government financing. At present, student apartments and new student canteens are under construction.
The college has full-time teachers 109, including associate professors (including senior lecturers) 18; Senior and intermediate professional titles are 8 1 person, which is a team of teachers with new educational concepts, high teaching level, strong practical ability and strong sense of teachers' morality. The college will also recruit teachers with the title of associate professor or above to further improve the level of teachers.
Heyuan polytechnic, the first institution of higher learning owned by Heyuan people, has the correct leadership of provincial and municipal party and government and the support of more than three million people in the city. It will become the cradle of cultivating applied talents at the junior college level.
The college is located in Longchuan County, near Dongjiang River, at the intersection of Guangzhou-Meishan Railway and Beijing-Kowloon Railway, with convenient air access to National Highway 205. The courtyard is lush with green grass and trees, with elegant environment and pleasant scenery. The college covers an area of120,000 square meters, with a construction area of 80,000 square meters, including teaching building, office building, library, science and technology museum, music building, alumni hall, student apartment and student canteen. Among them, the facilities of gymnasium and alumni hall are more advanced; The library has a collection of 1 1 10,000 volumes, and the science museum has a well-equipped laboratory and a multifunctional audio-visual education system.
The college has more than 300 students/kloc-0, including more than 870 freshmen last year, and students are all over the province. The college offers 9 majors: liberal arts, science, computer application and maintenance, information technology education, Chinese and English secretaries, physical education, fine arts, music and English. Specialty setting closely follows the market demand, adheres to the goal of all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, and pays attention to the cultivation of theoretical basis, practical ability and innovation ability. Graduates have good employment prospects.