Since 1908 Sun Yirang founded Wenzhou Normal School, the spirit of "self-improvement, starting with learning" advocated by Master Park Xue has been inspiring Wenzhou people. Wenzhou Teachers College was founded in 1956, and 1958 was upgraded to Wenzhou Teachers College. 1978 the State Council approved the restoration of Wenzhou Teachers College, and 1987 upgraded it to Wenzhou Teachers College. 1992 Wenzhou Teachers College merged Wenzhou Education College and three secondary normal schools successively, and merged with Wenzhou University to form a new Wenzhou University in 2006. The name of the school has changed several times, but the persistent love for cultivating talents in southern Zhejiang has never changed.
Today, the Adult (Continuing) Education College of Wenzhou University is integrated with the technical and management personnel training center, located in Xueyuan Road Campus. They inherit the rigorous and lively school-running style, explore and innovate the campus spirit, run schools independently by relying on secondary colleges, and undertake the task of serving local governments. The campus has an excellent style of study, perfect living facilities and beautiful environment, and is an ideal holy land for self-cultivation and academic practice.
The college has an office, a continuing education department, a diploma education department, and a technical and management personnel training department. There are 45 undergraduate majors and 29 junior colleges, which are for enrollment inside and outside the province. Students come from Wenzhou, Lishui, Taizhou, Jiaxing, Hangzhou and Qinzhou, Guangxi, and there are 23 correspondence stations. In 2007, there were registered students 16268, including 7 full-time students13, correspondence students 13475, and 2080 cooperative education (distance and postgraduate education) students. The education level covers postgraduate, undergraduate and junior college education; The forms of study are full-time, correspondence, evening university and distance learning.
College training includes teachers' continuing education, principals' training, foreign language proficiency test (BFT) training for overseas candidates, computer rank test training and enterprise training. From 65438 to 0999, teachers' continuing education was held on a large scale, which lasted for nine years and trained more than 73000 people. Therefore, "teachers' continuing education" was identified by Wenzhou Municipal People's Government as a key construction major in colleges and universities in 2006. In order to improve the quality of education, the Institute of Continuing Education was established in 2006, offering "accompanying reading", "menu" and "modular" continuing education, and striving to build a brand of continuing education.
The college constantly summarizes the experience of educational methods, contents, forms and management, practices diversified school-running modes, builds a fully functional educational platform, creates a good educational environment, explores the sustainable development of lifelong education, and makes contributions to the construction of a lifelong learning system for the whole society and the reform and development of higher education.