Shaoguan University is a local undergraduate college established by Guangdong Provincial People's Government. In the course of 48 years, the school has trained more than 75,000 talents for the society.
The school's predecessor was Shaoguan Teachers College, which was founded in 1958. 1970 changed its name to Shaoguan Normal School, 1978 Shaoguan Normal College resumed classes. 1989 Shaoguan Normal University merged with Shaoguan University to form a new Shaoguan University. In March 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, Shaoguan University and Shaoguan Institute of Education merged to form Shaoguan College at undergraduate level. In 2004, it was approved as a bachelor's degree awarding unit.
The school now has eight secondary colleges, including Yingdong College of Bioengineering, School of Information Engineering, School of Economics and Management, College of Arts, School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, School of Foreign Languages, School of Physical Education and College of Continuing Education, as well as the departments of Politics and Public Administration, Law and Mathematics.
There are music department, education department, tourism management department, fine arts department, social science department, modern educational technology department, computing center and so on 10 directly affiliated teaching departments (centers). Besides Shaozhou Normal University and Medical College, there are also two secondary colleges with independent legal personality. By the end of 2005-2006, there were 32 undergraduate majors and 0/5 specialist majors. At present, there are five school-level key disciplines, such as vegetable science, applied chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, machinery manufacturing and automation, Chinese language and literature, and five school-level key supporting disciplines, such as food science, physical education and training, Marxist theory and ideological and political education, tourism management and applied mathematics.
The school focuses on full-time undergraduate education, supplemented by higher vocational education, strives to run various forms and levels of continuing education, actively cooperates with postgraduate education, and creates conditions to obtain the qualification to hold postgraduate education. Relying on Shaoguan and based on the whole province, the school enrolls students from 19 provinces and regions, with 9,968 full-time undergraduates and 227 junior college students/person. Correspondence and evening adult education students 10232.
There are 739 teachers in the school, including 74 full-time senior titles, 238 deputy senior titles, 330 intermediate titles, 52 doctors and 236 masters.
At present, the school covers a total area of 25 1 1 mu, with a total construction area of 447,800 square meters, including the teaching administrative area of188,500 square meters. The school has five experimental centers, namely, computing center, educational technology center, experimental center of Yingdong Bioengineering College, experimental center of Information Engineering College and experimental center of Continuing Education College. There are 27 basic and professional laboratories, 23 experimental sub-rooms 1, 2 provincial key laboratories, 6 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers1,and 6 school-level experimental teaching demonstration centers. The total fixed assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 8610.04 million yuan. The library covers an area of 29,400 square meters, with a total collection of 6,543.8+0.456 million books, 6,543.8+0.384 million paper books, 6,000 Chinese and foreign periodicals and 72,000 electronic books. The school is equipped with various multimedia classrooms. There are 69 multimedia classrooms, 2 voice classrooms 12, 92 seats for multimedia classrooms and voice classrooms14, and 3,237 computers for teaching. There are 92 teaching practice bases and 7 1.800 square meters of sports ground.
The school has set up more than 30 scientific research institutions, including Chinese dialect research institute, Hakka research center, biotechnology research institute and animal disease research institute. Publish academic journals and school newspapers such as Journal of Shaoguan University and Educational Research. Experts and scholars are often hired to carry out academic lectures and academic exchange activities. Since 2000, school teachers have presided over or participated in national scientific research projects 13, 53 provincial scientific research projects, municipal projects 15 1, school-level projects 169, 34 horizontal projects and 420 scientific research projects. Obtained 22 national patents and 8 national, provincial and municipal scientific and technological progress awards, including the second prize of national scientific and technological progress 1 item.
The school actively carried out foreign exchanges, established inter-school contacts and friendly cooperative relations with nearly 10 universities in Japan, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Britain, South Korea and other countries, and began to train foreign students in more than 10 universities such as South China University of Technology, Central South University and Nanchang University, and jointly trained master's and doctoral students.
The school will seize the opportunity of the new round of higher education development, conscientiously implement the Party's educational policy, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, comprehensively improve the quality of teaching, the level of scientific research and the efficiency of running schools, and shoulder the sacred mission of being the cradle of high-level talents in northern Guangdong and even the "Red Triangle" region. And strive to build Shaoguan University into a local comprehensive undergraduate college with discipline characteristics and advantages.