Exploration of Ways to Improve the Quality of Chinese CE Providers

Abstract

Facing the development of the 21_st century, Chinese government and CE Providers have realized the importance and the urgency of continuing engineering education. China has over 50000 continuing education institutions of various scales and levels. The education quality and teaching measures of those institutions are varied and there is a big gap comparing with developed countries. Such weaknesses as the insufficient investment from the government, incompetence of the teachers, irregular standards for the execution and the inadequate quality evaluation have seriously restricted the development. Evaluation of various continuing education institutions in some Latin and European countries have been conducted in the past few years by adopting different executive models and evaluation standards. China is seeking ways to start such evaluation by collaborating with international organizations. We intend to explore and establish proper evaluation system and evaluation standards, which are suitable to China and inconsistent with the development of China, and to help Chinese CE providers reach international criteria step by step.