Ningdu Normal University

Ningdu Normal University was founded in 1914, formerly known as Jiangxi Provincial Ninth Middle School. Its first principal was Mr. Qiu Bi, a former Qing scholar. In 1925, it was renamed the Provincial No. 11 Middle School, in 1936 it was renamed the Provincial Ningdu Rural Normal School, in 1946 it was renamed the Provincial Ningdu Normal School, and in 1953 it was named Jiangxi Ningdu Normal School. The Gannan Branch of Jiangxi Institute of Education is a public junior college approved by the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education and established on the basis of Ningdu Normal School with college admissions qualifications. The branch mainly offers normal majors that are in line with the orientation of primary school teachers, and also offers non-teacher majors that meet the needs of local economic and social development. Approved enrollment of students starting from high school will be implemented in a three-year academic system, and students enrolled in junior high school will be enrolled in a five-year academic system. The branch and Ningdu Normal School implement a school-running model with two brands and one set of personnel. Located in Ningdu County in the northeast of southern Jiangxi, it is located to the south of Cuiweifeng and on the bank of Meijiang River. It faces the meandering Meijiang River in the east, overlooks the beautiful Cuiweifeng in the west, has the tranquility of green pines and cypresses at the foot of the Pagoda Mountain in the south, and has the tranquility of green pines and cypresses at the foot of the Pagoda Mountain in the north. The bustling intersection of Changxia Highway and National Highway 319. The campus covers an area of ??more than 400 acres, with a construction area of ??more than 60,000 square meters. It has teaching buildings, laboratory buildings, art buildings, science and technology buildings, libraries, student apartments, comprehensive buildings, auditoriums, dining halls, etc. The campus is full of green grass, flowers and trees, and the environment is beautiful.

Mr. Qiu Bi, a Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty, gave up his official position as director of the Audit Office of Jiangxi Province and returned to Ningdu to found Jiangxi Provincial No. 9 Middle School and served as the principal himself. The school was the predecessor of Ningdu Normal School. In 1936, it was renamed the Provincial Ningdu Rural Normal School, and in 1946 it was officially named "Jiangxi Provincial Ningdu Normal School". Although the school has changed its name several times, relocated several times, and gone through many vicissitudes of life, it has cultivated a large number of talents for the society. For example, Zhou Bangdao, who served as director of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education before liberation, graduated from Ning Normal University and was the fifth principal of the school. Zeng Delin, a nuclear physics expert at Tsinghua University in Taiwan, Huang Qunying, a professor at National Taiwan University, Professor Deng Zongqi, vice president of Central China Normal University, Zhou Weixin, secretary of the party committee of Hubei Normal University, and some professors from colleges and universities inside and outside the province, were all graduates of Ningdu Normal University . In the 1950s, Xingguo Jian Normal University and Ruijin Jian Normal University were successively merged into Ningdu Normal University. In addition to the original Ganzhou area, the school's students also expanded to Ji'an, Fuzhou and other regions, as well as Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan and other provinces, with 3,000 students. There are many people, and it is known as the "No. 1 Normal School in Central and South China". In 1958, a normal college class was added. In the early 1960s, it became one of the four provincial key normal schools in the province. During the "Cultural Revolution", colleges and technical secondary schools stopped enrolling students. Ningdu Normal School was re-established in 1973. It was one of the first secondary normal schools to be re-established in the province. Ruijin Branch was later established. After the reform and opening up, especially since 1993, the school has put forward the school motto of "Love the country, love the school, seek truth and seek truth" and established the school spirit of "diligence, rigor, unity and enterprising". The ancient Ningdu Normal University is full of youthful vitality and vitality. .

In recent years, the school has increased investment in the construction of teaching staff and hardware construction such as teaching equipment, books and materials. Modern educational technologies such as school campus networks, computers, and multimedia are commonly used in educational teaching practice and management. There are advanced language laboratories, multimedia classrooms, physical, chemical and biological laboratories, standard track and field fields, and basketball courts; there are more than 360 computers, 130 single-person piano rooms, 30 pianos, and a collection of more than 150,000 books. Various teaching The total value of instruments and equipment is nearly 10 million yuan. The school has a strong teaching staff, with 214 faculty members and 130 full-time teachers, including 36 senior lecturers, 63 lecturers, and 36 teachers with a master's degree or above, forming a team of teachers with a reasonable age and professional structure.

The branch currently offers teacher-training majors such as Chinese education, mathematics education, English education, modern educational technology, and preschool education, with more than 4,000 students enrolled.

The school actively promotes education and teaching reform, strengthens education management, continuously improves teaching quality, and strives to develop its own characteristics. Over the past 100 years, the school has formed a healthy, progressive school spirit and academic style, and is renowned both inside and outside the province for its excellence in teaching.

Provincial and municipal governments at all levels have repeatedly awarded the honorary title of "Advanced School-Running Unit". From 1989 to the present, it has been continuously rated as "Jiangxi Province Civilized Unit" by the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. In the past ten years, the school has won various awards at the national, provincial and municipal levels. There are more than 100 kinds of awards.

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Ningdu Normal University has been exploring and developing for half a century and has trained more than 20,000 teachers and talents of all kinds for the country. Ningdu Normal University is based on building first-class hardware facilities and teaching staff, further expanding the scale of school operations, and making contributions to education in southern Gansu. In recent years, the school has acquired land successively, expanding the campus area to 430 acres (of which the school headquarters is 110 acres), and is planning a new campus to increase the area by 1,000 acres. Now we have built a green grassy track and field stadium with a 400-meter track, a scientifically designed dining hall and auditorium, an elegantly decorated art building, as well as teaching buildings, science and education buildings, faculty dormitories, and student apartments, with a total construction area of ??4 More than 10,000 square meters. It has a language room, a computer room, a multimedia classroom, and an on-campus closed-circuit television network system. Color TVs have entered classrooms, telephones have entered dormitories, and department offices have begun to use computer management.

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The library has a collection of more than 100,000 books and subscribes to more than 400 types of newspapers and periodicals. Ningdu Normal University is a county-level institution. It currently has 1 principal, 1 secretary of the party committee, and 3 vice principals. There are 12 middle-level institutions including the Party and Government Office, Academic Affairs Office, Student Office, General Affairs Office, Teaching and Research Office, Laboratory, Library, Security Section, Youth League Committee, Trade Union, and Work-Study Office. There are 163 faculty members, including 21 senior lecturers, 37 lecturers and 43 assistant lecturers. At present, the school has introduced 2 master's degree students, and 6 people are sent to the National Normal University to study for a master's degree in education. It also sponsors more than 20 young teachers to participate in postgraduate course training to improve their professional quality and academic level. In recent years, the school has actively adapted to the requirements of educational informatization and attached great importance to training students in information technology and modern educational technology. In 1999, with the approval of the National Labor and Social Security Vocational Skills Appraisal Center, the school established the National Computer High-tech Examination Station and became the computer training base in southern Gansu. In March 2001, the Provincial Department of Education and the Provincial Development Planning Committee decided that Ning Normal University would pilot the "3 2" segmented academic system to train primary school teachers with junior college degrees. The school currently offers a variety of majors such as junior college education, English education, information technology education, general teacher education, kindergarten teacher education, general teacher English, general teacher computer science, economic and trade English, and craft painting. It recruits students from 18 counties and cities in Ganzhou City. The number of students in the school reaches more than 2,600. Ningdu Normal School’s school-running level continues to improve, and its school appearance becomes more beautiful. Since 1997, the school has been rated as a provincial health courtyard unit and a provincial gardening unit. Since 1989, the school has been rated as a provincial civilized unit six times in a row. Under the current situation where the third level of the normal education system is gradually transitioning to the second level, Ningdu Normal University is seizing the opportunity, constantly reforming and innovating, and seeking greater development at a faster pace. Resource integration (preparation with Gannan Education College to establish Ganzhou Normal College) The 15th executive meeting of the municipal government on December 26, 2007 and the 22nd meeting of the 22nd Standing Committee of the third municipal party committee on January 18, 2008 decided to integrate Gannan The educational resources of the College of Education (Teacher College Department of Gannan Normal University) and Ningdu Normal School are building a new college area: Ganzhou Normal College within the college campus of Ganzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone.

The owner of this construction project is Gannan Education College, and the supervisory unit is Ganzhou Education Bureau. The construction site is in the college campus of Ganzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, east of National Highway 105, and south of Jiangxi Vocational College of Applied Technology. , covering an area of ??1,000 acres. The initial scale of the school construction is about 10,000 students and a construction area of ??250,000 square meters. The project officially started construction in December 2008.

Necessity

The preparation for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College is the need for the city’s economic and social development. Ganzhou is the southern gate of Jiangxi and the largest districted city in Jiangxi Province, with jurisdiction over 18 counties (cities, districts) and 1 economic and technological development zone, covering an area of ??39,379 square kilometers, accounting for 23.6% of the total area of ??Jiangxi Province; the city's population is 8.45 million, accounting for one-fifth of the province. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, southern Gansu became the earliest experimental area for economic system reform in the province, and economic construction embarked on a fast track.

However, the development of education in Ganzhou is relatively lagging behind and cannot meet the needs of social and economic development. Integrating the resources of the two schools to prepare for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College, the graduates trained are oriented to old areas, rural areas, and remote mountainous areas, serving basic education and new rural construction, providing good manpower for "connecting Changchun, Zhuhai, and Fujian, and building a new Ganzhou" resources to meet the needs of our city’s economic and social development.

The preparation for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College is the need for the reform and development of basic education in our city. In 2007, Ganzhou City was still short of more than 5,000 primary school teachers, and there were still 3,331 primary school substitute teachers. The number of primary school teachers was insufficient, and the quality of primary school teachers was insufficient. The problems of low height and unreasonable structure are quite prominent. The preparation for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College will effectively solve the problem of training new teachers in primary schools and kindergartens and improving the academic level of in-service teachers.

The preparation for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College is to meet the needs of the national policy on the layout and structure adjustment of normal colleges. Gannan Normal College, located in our city, recruits students from all over the country and mainly trains junior middle school and high school teachers. It cannot meet the needs of primary school and early childhood teacher training in our city. According to the spirit of the Ministry of Education's "Some Opinions on the Adjustment of the Layout and Structure of Normal Colleges" and "Some Opinions on Strengthening the Training of Primary School Teachers with College Degrees or Above", the preparation for the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College can further optimize the configuration and layout structure of teacher education. Realize the transition from three-level normal schools to two-level normal schools, improve the level of school running and improve the efficiency of running schools.

Feasibility

On the one hand, the provincial government has always attached great importance to our city’s application work. This year, the establishment of Ganzhou Normal College has been included in Jiangxi Province’s “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” schools. The layout plan shall be submitted to the Ministry of Education. Leaders from the Provincial Department of Education have visited the school many times to provide guidance and urge our city to speed up the pace of the application process.

On the other hand, revitalizing the assets of the two schools can basically solve the problem of construction funds. The current campus area of ??the Normal College of Gannan Normal University is 252 acres. The campus is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has beautiful scenery. It is a good place for developers to live in buildings. After preliminary evaluation, if the land is planned for commercial and residential use, the land value will be approximately 151 million yuan (estimated at 600,000 yuan/acre). If the land is put up for public auction, it is expected to fetch more than 200 million yuan. Ningdu Normal School and its farm have a total area of ??440 acres, with a superior geographical location. The value of the land converted to commercial and residential use is approximately 132 million yuan (estimated at 300,000 yuan/acre). If the municipal government allows the revitalization funds of the two schools to be used for the construction of the new campus, the construction funds can be basically solved.

After integrating the educational resources of the two schools, the conditions for running a normal college will basically be met. The predecessors of the Teachers College Department of Gannan Normal University were Ganzhou Normal School and Ningdu Normal School, which have developed unique school-running characteristics during their century-long history of running schools. The total value of fixed assets of the Teachers College Department of Gannan Normal University is 77.8 million yuan (excluding land value). In the past five years, more than 50 million yuan has been invested in infrastructure construction and the purchase of teaching equipment, books and materials; Gannan Education College was merged After the Normal College Department, both brands are recruiting full-time college students. In 2007, there were 5,272 students enrolled. Ningdu Normal School has teaching instruments and equipment worth more than 6 million yuan, 120,000 books and materials, and 4,201 students in school in 2007. The two schools currently have 313 full-time teachers, 36 professors and associate professors, and 39 senior lecturers. Among the full-time teachers, 43 have obtained master's degrees and 18 are studying for master's degrees on the job, which basically meets the education and teaching requirements of normal colleges. The two schools are integrated and have complementary advantages, which can basically meet the application conditions for Ganzhou Normal College.