Introduction to Hainan College of Software Technology
Hainan College of Software Technology is a full-time public college of higher education, which is dedicated to providing its students with high-quality skills in information technology and software engineering. The college was commissioned by the Hainan Provincial Government and registered with the Ministry of Education in March, 2003. Its predecessor was Hainan Qionghai Normal School and has already had 90-year history by now. The college is located in the center of Qionghai City, which is the hometown of the Red Detachment of Women and the seat of Boao Forum for Asia. As the central city in the east of Hainan Province, Qionghai is not only one of the excellent tourist cities in China, but also one of the National Model Cities for Spiritual Civilization Construction.
The college covers an area of 21.7 hectares and has a GFA of nearly 160,000 ㎡. The total value of fixed assets is about 170 million RMB, including 38.9717 million RMB teaching and research equipment, 2.77 million RMB volumes, 2382.51 GB electronic books, and 2293 sets of computer used for teaching. The college has 4 high standard vocational education training centers supported by the Central Financial Fund, providing 56 laboratories and training rooms on campus, 52 off-campus practice centers, and a provincial experimental teaching demonstration center. The college has built a virtual information platform integrating gigabit campus network, communications network and monitor broadcast television network. Moreover, located on campus are a “Students Office & Venture Office”, a “Software Research& Development Centre”, an “Art Design Research& Development Centre”, a “National Vocational Skills Certification Office” and a “Red Flag Linux Key Laboratory”. The college is an authorized partner of the“National Center for Developing Animation, Cartoon & Game Industry (NACG)”and the only test center of Higher Education Self-Study Examination in the east of Hainan.
The college consists of 9 departments, namely Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Information Management, Digital Design, Electronic Engineering,Arts & Media, Foreign Languages & Tourism, Basic Education, and Social Sciences. Taking electronic information as the backbone and pursuing a harmonious development of arts design, media, finance, travel, language and culture, the college offers 27 specialties in all. Besides, it has 5 provincial characteristic specialties, 7 provincial excellent courses and 4 provincial-level teaching teams. At present, there are above 6,000 full-time students from 27 provinces (municipalities/ autonomous regions) in the college. The college has 380 faculty and staff members, among whom 264 are professional teachers, including 15 professors, 44 associate professors, 114 lecturers, 82 teachers who have master degree, 7 doctors (including doctor students), 135 “double-quality teachers” (theory and practice integrated teachers), 50 guest professors (part-time) and 3 foreign teachers. Two of professional teachers are important experts contacting the provincial party committee and provincial government directly, one is the first level expert of “515 Talent Project”, two are experts with outstanding contribution to Hainan, one is a provincial leader in science and technology innovation, four are“famous teachers in Hainan”, and one is “Provincial Excellent Young and Middle-aged Backbone teachers of Higher Schools”.
In recent three years, its teachers have got above 100 provincial and national prizes, such as the first prize in the Second National Youth Teachers’ Morality Speech Contest, the first and second prize for Hainan Science and Technology Advancement, the second prize for Provincial Teaching Achievement, the second prize for Science Research, the first prize for Provincial Teaching Competition and the first prize for Provincial Natural Science Excellent Academic Thesis. The college has undertaken various kinds of research projects, including 1 project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, 3 National sub-topics, 1 of Humanities and Social Science Research Special Projects hosted by Ministry of Education, 1 project in English teaching reform of national vocational and technical colleges, 14 projects supported by Hainan Natural Science Foundation, 11 Hainan Planned Project on Education and Science, 2 projects of Hainan Federation of Social Science, 39 research projects of Hainan colleges and universities, and 9 projects in other aspects. Meanwhile, our teachers have written or edited 44 monographs or textbooks and 199 guide books about experiments and training. 54 professional papers were published in international journals, such as "SCI", "EI", and "ISIP".
The college is committed to putting quality in the top and pays much attention to creating its own characteristic. It upholds the principle of “talents as the key, teaching as the core, skills as the focus, quality as the life, and uniqueness as the goal”, adhering to the aim of “taking service as an objective, being employment-oriented, and insisting on produce-study development”. It carries out “Practice leading, Ability based and College-Enterprise Cooperation” training mode combining knowledge, ability and quality, and implements the “double certificates” system to promote the integration of practical training and vocational skills appraisal. Run based on regulations, the college has achieved remarkable results.
Its students get rewarded in national level or provincial level competitions about 231 times. They won 7 first prizes, 23 second prizes and 23 third prizes in the following national competitions: National Skills Competition of the Colleges, “Higher Education Press Cup”National Mathematical Modeling Contest, National College Students Electronic Design Contest, “Red Flag cup” National College Students Open Source Software Technology Competition, "Chinese Software Cup" College Students Software Design Competition, “Pan-Pearl River Delta Amway Cup " Computer Works Final and so on. Meanwhile, the students also won 28 first prizes, 40 second prizes and 64 third prizes in the following provincial competitions: “Pan-Pearl River Delta Amway Cup " Computer Works Contest in Hainan Division, Hainan Skills Competition of the Colleges, “Higher Education Press Cup” National Mathematical Modeling Contest in Hainan Division, “Red Flag cup” National College Students Open Source Software Technology Competition in Hainan Division, “E-surfing Cup” First Hainan College Students Graphic Design Competition, National College Students Electronic Design Contest in Hainan Division and so forth. The college provides 59 different kinds of vocational skills certification and professional qualification examinations(different grades) organized separately by 10 vocational skills certifications bodies such as the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the State Ministry of Information Industry. In recent three years, 87% of the students passed their first professional qualification exams and 95.52% have got “double certificates”. With the continuous improvement of students’ quality, the graduates’ average annual employment rate reaches over 92% and employers’ satisfaction rate to comprehensive quality and work competence of graduates reaches over 93.83%. The college is honored as “Hainan Excellent Unit in Graduates’ Employment” for four years in the row.
In order to facilitate cooperation with private enterprise, the college has developed a pattern of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation with almost 50 enterprise, including Hainan Ecology Software Garden, Muda Animation Co. Ltd., Hainan Yingli Technology Co. Ltd., Hainan Keli Electronic Technology Co. Ltd.(Chinese HP), Hainan Fenghua Animation Culture Co. Ltd., Hainan Tumou Planning&Creativity Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Wanquan River Technology Co. Ltd., Qionghai Chuihui Co. Ltd., BFA Hotel, Qionghai TV Station and so on.
The college has received authorization to recruit foreign students. It also exchanges and cooperates all round with well-known enterprises and universities at home and abroad , such as Kauno kolegija/University of Applied Sciences(Lithuania), Bournemouth and Poole(Great Britain), Western New Mexico State University College(USA), TAFE NSW South Western Sydney Institute(Australia), Zhongshan University(China) and so on.
The college has been well received by all circles in the society for its high-quality talent training and good reputation. It has been awarded as “National Civilization Unit", “National Advanced Enterprise in Arts Education”, one of the national pilot units of education informationization, “Advanced Enterprise on graduates’ employment services in Hainan colleges and universities”, “Hainan Model College in Running School According to Law ”, “Hainan Model College of Incorruption Culture ”,“Hainan Excellent Enterprise in School Safety Work”,“Hainan College with Parents’ Satisfaction”, “Hainan Top Ten Reliable Educational Enterprises”, “Hainan Model Training Base of High-tech Industry Talents”, “Hainan Advanced College of Innovative Talents Training”, “Hainan Qualified Colleges in Library Network Construction” and so on.
Facing new challenges and opportunities, the college will adhere to the scientific development, strengthen the connotation construction, enhance the overall strength comprehensively and strive to make the college become one of the national models of higher vocational colleges. It will make due contributions to the construction of Hainan International Tourism Island and Hainan Smart Island, and the development of the country's economy and society.
(2013年8月30日更新)