Yucai Training Center of Shandong Normal University was founded by the Association of Old Educators and the Association of Old Professors of Shandong Normal University on 199 1. It is a school-running institution approved and registered by the competent department. It is the only full-time self-taught teaching unit in the College of Continuing Education of Shandong Normal University. It belongs to a teaching unit under the leadership of Shandong Normal University and is an independent legal person.
The center is located on the second floor of Shandong Normal University. Relying on Shandong Normal University (No.88 Wenhua East Road, Jinan, the headquarters), it runs a school with strong teachers, advanced teaching facilities, beautiful learning environment and rich cultural connotations. Since its establishment more than 20 years ago, the center has always adhered to the people-oriented and student-centered service, been determined to reform and keep pace with the times, and has formed an independent and reasonable school-running pattern, a strict and scientific management model and a strong and dignified teaching atmosphere.
High-standard school, low-standard fees, full-time students arrange accommodation in the school, and daily life is safe and convenient. More than10,000 talents of different levels have been trained, and some undergraduates and postgraduates have been sent to institutions of higher learning. According to incomplete statistics in recent years, nearly 50 graduate students have been admitted, and many graduates have been employed as teachers and teaching assistants in colleges and secondary specialized schools.
Under the care of the higher authorities, Yucai Training Center has been commended by the higher authorities year after year, and has been rated as an advanced teaching unit and excellent student-aided unit of Jinan self-study examination by the provincial, municipal and district education authorities. In 2002, it was awarded as an advanced social aid unit in Shandong Province by the Shandong Higher Education Self-taught Examination Committee. In 2008, it was awarded the title of advanced collective by Shandong Provincial Education Department. In the same year, it was also listed as one of the 24 qualified repeat schools in Jinan.