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Guangdong Vocational College of Foreign Languages and Arts

Guangdong Vocational College of Foreign Languages and Arts is a full-time general higher vocational college sponsored by the People's Government of Guangdong Province. The predecessor of the school was the Guangdong Foreign Language Normal School organized by the People's Government of Guangdong Province in 1978 and the Guangdong Normal School of Art in 1983. In December 2001, it was renamed Guangdong Vocational College of Foreign Languages and Arts with the approval of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government. The school is a model vocational college of Guangdong Province, a model school of innovation and entrepreneurship education for college students in Guangdong Province, and a model school of Guangdong Province governing schools by law.


   School is located in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, with two campuses, Wushan and Yanling. The Wushan campus is mainly based on vocational education, and currently has the School of Applied Foreign Languages, the School of Music and Dance, the School of Art and Design, the School of Information, the School of International Economics and Trade, the Ministry of Ideology and Politics, the Ministry of Sports, the School of Continuing Education, and the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Yanling campus focuses on teacher education, and currently has a college of basic education, a college of preschool education, and a college of public administration. The campus is lined with trees and has a quiet and elegant environment. It is a “garden-like unit” in Guangzhou and a safe and civilized campus in Guangdong Province.


The school upholds the school motto of "Study through Chinese and Western, morality and art", promotes the teaching style of "respecting learning, emphasizing education, dedication, and loving the child" and the style of study of "diligence, elegance, self-discipline, and enterprising", and insists on "good knowledge, good deeds, and morality". The school-running philosophy of "Artistic, Open Cooperation, and Characteristic Development" has established the school-running idea of "Teacher education produces high-quality goods and vocational education has characteristics", and cultivates "high professional quality and strong employability in the education industry, culture and art industry, and business service industry." The "high and powerful" technical skills talents with great development potential are positioned for running the school. Through the "four modernizations" reform of teaching "personalization of talent training, production of teaching results, informatization of teaching methods and internationalization of teaching horizons", the "four modernizations" of teaching have been reformed. HAPPY+" dual-core synergy (professional core competence and professional core competence are equally emphasized) talent training mode. The school also integrates innovation and entrepreneurship education into the whole process of talent training, and explores the "three-products" innovation of "relying on curriculum teaching reform to promote productization, relying on project centers to achieve productization, and relying on incubation bases to promote commercialization" Entrepreneurship education has cultivated all students with creative thinking, innovative spirit, and entrepreneurial abilities, and has realized some students’ entrepreneurial dreams.


   The school currently enrolls 29 majors, with 9,219 full-time students and 4,652 adult education students. In accordance with the reform idea of "school-enterprise (school) cooperation, work-study integration", the school has created a special professional group such as teacher education, language and culture, art design, performing arts, computer application technology, etc., and built 14 provincial-level professional groups. Key (demonstration, branding, central financial support) professions. Won the first prize of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth higher education teaching achievements of Guangdong Province consecutively. In 2018, he won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award of Vocational Education.


The    school was recognized by the Ministry of Education’s School Planning, Construction and Development Center as a selected school for the "Guo Yu Hua Yu VR" World Laboratory Project in 2017. Built 14 on-campus training bases focusing on 1 world-class laboratory project, 3 training bases supported by the central government, 7 provincial training bases, and 1 provincial public training center, and 5 provincial-level training bases , 19 off-campus practice teaching base construction projects for university students, more than 500 off-campus practice bases, 188 professional training rooms, and 5997 professional training stations. The training equipment and conditions are at the leading level among similar colleges and universities in Guangdong Province.


  The employment quality of school graduates is high, ranking among the best among similar institutions in the province. In the past three years, the initial employment salary of school graduates is much higher than the average level of higher vocational colleges in our province, and the satisfaction degree of graduates' innovation ability is higher than the national average level of higher vocational colleges.


   There are 559 faculty members in the school, 150 of whom have senior professional titles, and 85.51% of the teachers have "dual teacher" qualities. There are 2 national outstanding teachers, 20 outstanding teachers in Nanyue, Guangdong Province, 2 famous teaching teachers in Guangdong Province, 1 famous teaching teacher in Guangdong Province's "Special Support Plan", and provincial-level training targets for the "Thousand, Hundred, and Ten" project in Guangdong Province 1 person, 16 school-level training targets, 24 professional leaders, 64 teaching and research backbones. The school library has a collection of 1.4248 million books (species), 50 database sites, and 27395GB of mirrored data. The campus network covers two campuses with 13,500 network information points.


The school is the vice chairman unit of the Primary Teacher Education Committee of the National Teacher Education Association, the chairman unit of the Guangdong Higher Vocational Education Foreign Language Teaching Guidance Committee, the chairman unit of the Guangdong Higher Vocational Education Teacher Education Teaching Guidance Committee, and the Guangdong Higher Education Association Primary School (preschool) The chairman unit of the Teacher Education Professional Committee, the chairman unit of the Secretarial Professional Committee of the Guangdong Higher Education Society, the chairman unit of the Guangdong Vocational Education Preschool Education Group, the chairman unit of the Guangdong Preschool Education Teacher Development Alliance, the Guangdong Primary and Secondary School Teacher Development Center , Guangdong Primary School Principal Training Base, Primary School Teachers' Continuing Education Training Base, Guangdong General Education System "Hundred, Thousands, Ten Thousands" Talent Project Training Base, Guangdong Province Higher Vocational Teacher Education Training Base, Undertaking New Schools in Guangdong Province A round of "Hundreds, Thousands, Thousands of Talents Training Project" is the task of training famous teachers in elementary schools and kindergartens. As one of the first batch of Chinese cultural heritage bases in Guangdong Province, the school has established "Lin Xianhui Guangdong Music Research Office", "Women's Hundred People's Orchestra" and other institutions, and established the first collection, exhibition, scientific research, and teaching with Guangdong music as the theme. An integrated "Guangdong Music Exhibition Hall". Our school is the anchor unit of the Guangdong Preschool Education Teacher Training Center and the Guangdong Language Training and Testing Office. It is responsible for the training of kindergartens and teachers in Guangdong Province and the guidance and management of the province's language training and testing.


   The school actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation to serve the "One Belt One Road" development strategy and the construction of the Guangdong Free Trade Zone. The school cooperated with Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom to hold a Sino-foreign cooperative education project for pre-school education at the junior level; the French Research Center was registered by the Ministry of Education in 2017 for the “Belt and Road” Regional and National Research Center. The school won the honorary title of "Advanced Collective of Foreign Exchange and Cooperation of Higher Education Institutions in Guangdong Province". So far, the school has established cooperative relations with 35 overseas universities and educational institutions, has carried out students' study abroad, research, short-term study tours and other projects, and has opened French, Korean, English and other multilingual social trainings. In recent years, "Sino-Korea International Exchange Cultural Center", "Guangwai Art-New Zealand National Institute of Technology Education (Guangdong) Training Center", "Drama English Teaching Research and Innovation Center" have successively settled in our school, establishing a sustainable series Project, the international education reform has been carried out in depth.


   (November 2018)


   Wushan Campus Address: No. 463 Shougouling Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou


  Zip Code: 510640


  Phone: 020-38457353


   Fax: 020-38457353


   Yanling Campus Address: No. 495, Yanling Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou


  Zip Code: 510507


  Phone: 020-37089397


   Fax: 020-37089397