A Brief Introduction to NanjingRadio and TV University
Nanjing Radio and TV University is located in Nanjing, a city full of beauty and outstanding personnel. The University was founded in Feb. 1979. In 1991, approved by the National Education Committee, the University became an independent provincial broadcasting and TV University directly under the leadership of Nanjing Municipal People’s Government.College education in excellent school brand has been created and accumulated rich experience on the basis of higher vocational colleges, to further meet the needs of high-quality professional and technical personnel of the economic and social development, to explore the training mode of higher occupation technique education mode and talent, better for the development of local economy and society develop production, construction, management, services for the need of the occupation, applied talents. To further deepen the reform of education and teaching, promoting the comprehensive quality education, adhere to the quality of survival, with professional characteristics and development, create the domestic first-class Career Technical College.
With the entry into the 21st century, Nanjing is actively promoting the construction of city full of study atmosphere. Nanjing Radio and TV University insists on taking modern distance education as its tenet, quickly adapts itself to the development of local economy and demand of social course, is providing varieties of opportunities for numbers of learners to attend tertiary education and continuous education. The university has established 18 branches and over 20 teaching centers, forming an educational system covering the whole city with classified training system and classified management system. The degree education has arranged nearly 30 majors related to 11 different fields, including computer, foreign language, finance, management, law and art etc. The non-degree education covers 70 programmes, and a framework that taking open distance education as its unique characteristic, developing both non-degree education and degree education and reaching the coordinative development of both education (ordinary level) and adult education has come into being. By the end of 2004, there have been total 50000 undergraduates and undergraduate diploma students having graduated from the university. Currently, there are more than 30000 students doing various degree study programmes and 20000 students are attending the non-degree training programmes provided by the university.
Nanjing Radio and TV University is making struggling efforts to get itself well adapted to the need of establishing lifelong educational system as well as developing Nanjing into a city full of study atmosphere, and actively seeks effective ways to carry our open distance education programme. In 1999, the university was selected as one of the first group approved by the Education Ministry to carry out the Outstanding Personnel Training Model and Open Education Experimental Programme by the Central Radio and TV University, In 2002, the University smoothly passed the assessment of the Outstanding Personnel Training Model and Open Education Experimental Programme at the middle stage. In 2004, the University established long distance study center and has become one of the key open distance education bases in Nanjing . Moreover, the University has also set up a series of training institutions such as Continuous Education Institute, Foreign Language Education Institute, Liaoyuan Radio and TV University, and etc.
Nanjing Radio and TV University has constantly promoted the construction of teaching team as well as construction of teaching modernization. The University comprises a group of high qualified and experienced professional teachers both full-time and part-time, over 50% of whom are teachers with intermediate or senior professional titles and professional technicians. In relation to the teaching condition, the University has established computer network center, multimedia education center, computer laboratory center, the engineering laboratory center, books and material center. The University is also equipped with multi-media electronic liberary, multiple functional academic hall, performance and broadcasting hall, the satellite dual video conference system, network dual video conference system, computerized telephone, the satellite digital receiving system, closed circuit TV, a campus network with the internet speed of backbone network reaching 1000M and that of table computer(terminal network) reaching 100M has been set up, realizing VOD video unicast.
Nanjing Radio and TV University has been entitled Nanjing Civilized Unit several times by Nanjing Municipal Government,and entitled Jiangsu Civilized Unit by Jiangsu Provincial government in Jan. 2006. Nanjing Radio and TV University has awarded prizes by educational authorities of Nanjing Municipal and Jiangsu Provincial governments and the Central Radio and TV University.
In this new century, Nanjing Radio and TV University is provided with biggest opportunities than ever before, We will continuously deepen the reform, make expansion and innovation, constantly seek ways to open distance educational programme to confront the challenge ins the new era with open mind, make strenuous efforts to realize the objective of getting our university stronger and our teachers richer and having our university ranking top among our counterparts in the area of open distance education.
