Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (GPNU) is a provincial general university, authorized to award bachelors and Master’s Degrees. The university is located in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province in south China; GPNU enjoys convenient transportation and favorable weather. It takes only one hour and a half to reach Hong Kong by train. GPNU has 20 schools, covering seven study areas including science, engineering, art, economy, management, education and law. There are 20519 full-time students and 1332 staff members of whom 1042 make up the teaching and research staff. For the teaching management, school implements a “Tutorial System” management as teaching in small classes, and pays a great concern to individual counseling.
1. History
Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (GPNU), established in 1957, located in Tianhe District of Guangzhou in South China, is a comprehensive university under the direction of the Education Department of Guangdong Province and is authorized to confer bachelor’s and master’s degrees. It is a University of more than 50 year’s history. Its predecessor was Guangdong Institute for Nationalities, founded in 1957, and renamed in 2002. Guangdong Mechanical School, Guangdong Economic Management College and Guangdong Financial and Trade Management College merged successively into GPNU. GPNU is made up of 17 schools, covering science, engineering, management, literature, education and law. GPNU has been enrolling international students since the Year 2000. In 2006, the university was nominated as a Master’s Degree granting unit. GPNU sponsors Tianhe College of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University which is an independent privately-run full-time secondary college. GPNU began to enroll undergraduates in 1977 and post-graduates in 2006 and overseas students in 2000.
2. Discipline and Programs
Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (GPNU) has 63 undergraduate subjects, 44 subjects for 3-year-term college students. There are 20 secondary schools in this university, such as schools of Electronic and Information, Management, Computer Science, Educational Technology and Communications, Education, Accounting, Fine Arts, Nationalities, Chinese Language and Literature, Foreign Language, Economics & Trade, Mechanical Engineering, Automation, Politics and Law. Besides, the university has 3 teaching departments: Social Science, College English and Physical Education and one provincial model software institute. All these subjects cover engineering, science, literature, management, education, economics and law. The university has four master’s degree granting units at the present. Academic education is mainly dominated by English teaching bachelor degree program, including International Business, Computer Science and Technology and Business Administration three majors which have opened currently.
3. Academic Facilities and Scientific Research
Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University has industrial training centre, computer network information center, experiment of electronics and information center, teaching building, library, laboratory building, comprehensive gymnasium, sport playground, student canteen, dormitory building. There is also provincial key Virtual Electrical Engineering Exercise Laboratory provincial "Integration of Optical and Electrical Machinery" Researching Laboratory and one Higher Vocational Technology and Digital Education Teaching Resource Centre. GPNU library has a collection of over 2,400,000 books, 2000 different Chinese or foreign languages newspapers and periodicals, possessing a favorable condition for education. The university has Institutes of Higher Education and Vocational Education, Ethnic Studies, and many other scientific research institutions.
4. Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University Achievement
Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University pays much attention to the students’ practical ability, and has for many times organized the students to attend national competitions and gained abundant achievements.
There are 20519 full-time students and 1332 staff members of whom1042 make up the teaching and research staff. Among the teaching staff, 140 are professors, 331 are associate professors, and 872 with doctor and master degrees. Dozens of the professors from GPNU were granted as national model teachers or national excellent teachers. During the past 3 years, The University has undertaken 256 research projects and won more than 100 prizes at national, provincial, ministerial or municipal levels, and published 68 Academic Monographs, 91 textbooks and 2505 academic papers.
The main mission of GPNU is to train qualified teachers for all kinds of vocational schools in Guangdong province. Therefore, the university has been chosen as the “National College Students’ Culture and Quality Teaching Base”, “National Vocational Education Teachers Training Key Construction Base”, "National Training Institution for Shortage of Skilled Personnel ", “Skilled Personnel Training Base in Guangdong Province ", " Principal Training Center in Guangdong Provinces", and " Base for Further Study of Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Guangdong Province ".
5. Communication and International Cooperation
Recently, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University has nearly 300 international students come from more than 30 countries of Europe, Asia, America and Africa. GPNU provides international students with Guangdong government scholarship and school’s scholarship opportunities. The university has established good cooperative relations with colleges and universities from USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, and other countries or regions. Since 2004 the University of Huddersfield (UK) and Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (GPNU) have been successfully co-operating to deliver the above undergraduate course in Guangzhou. The course has graduated over 400 students since it started. In 2012 the University of Huddersfield’s School of Education was ranked 2nd to Cambridge University in The Guardian League Table for all universities in the UK.
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