why is the old university so popular? From the subjective needs perspective, the old people's lonely soul longs for attention and enrichment.
more than 80 year old grandma and her husband have been studying at the University for more than 10 years. She said she didn't want to graduate. "As long as the old university does not catch us, I will be here to learn, you see how well I am now, I can live so well, but also because of the old university." Grandma said. The words "
" put up the two words, showing the voice of most of the elderly. The loneliness of life in the old age causes mental emptiness. Mr. Gao, who retired from a state ministry, told reporters: "there are documents to be watched and approved every day. Although there are many things, but they are very full, now open your eyes and worry about how to live today."
the phenomenon of retirement degradation is of great concern. Long term isolation from the social environment will degenerate the physiology and psychology of the elderly, and thus breed a series of social problems. Mr. Li, a retired cadre at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, said.
Zhang Sulian, a staff member of the senior university of Taiyuan, said that watching TV has become the main way of entertainment for a lot of people in one day. The daily life of the family is heavy, and sitting at the mahjong table for a long time is not good for health. The old people are bored and have to walk on the street to see people and people. Many old people spend the day and day. This is the typical "stay up".
Ma Min, a researcher at the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences, said that many elderly people are busy with work and family when they are young, and their hobbies are shelved. Accepting re education can make up for their shortcomings in their youth and enjoy life better.
in the view of Dong Ming, the president of the New College of eight dimensional education group in Beijing, most of the old people are born before and after the founding of new China. Because of historical reasons, they are generally lacking the opportunity to receive good education in the period of growing up. Today, with the rapid development of science and culture, the cultural knowledge and skills of these elderly people are somewhat poor and single, and their ability to adapt to the society is relatively poor. The rise of interest classes in universities and communities in the old age just satisfied the needs of the elderly. To this end, the eight - dimensional Education Group has set up a new college to recruit senior students - the new college, which allows the elderly to rejuvenate and reshape their confidence through learning like a new student.
the old people go to senior citizen University for different reasons, but in the final analysis, they all want to let their old age have a place where their hearts can be placed. Wu aunt of Hangzhou told reporters that she had been to some elderly apartment, where life was too monotonous. "The ideal nursing home in my mind is not only to have tea, oil, salt, vinegar, and vinegar, but also to play chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and hops. We should not only have a sense of old age, but also learn from old age.
a set of data from the court system also confirms the desire of the elderly for spiritual pursuits. The second intermediate people's Court of Beijing introduced that in recent years, the number of maintenance disputes has been increasing steadily. According to the analysis of the elderly maintenance disputes in the last 5 years, the demands of the elderly are varied. In the urban maintenance disputes, the elderly are more and more demanding for spiritual support and spiritual comfort in addition to the demand for their children's living expenses.
lack of funds, venues and teachers - many factors lead to the difficulty of enrolment of old people
one side is the strong desire for the elderly to go to school, and the limited capacity of the elderly university. In the past few years, the enrollment of senior universities in all over the world continues to be burning, the number of classes is growing, and the limited capacity of "expansion" is the most realistic problem facing the senior university leaders.
"the demand for enrolment of the elderly continues to grow. The way we can think is to increase the class size, but where does the classroom come from?" Zheng Yan said that the resources available now are used, and it is difficult to increase enrollment quota. At present, there are nearly 20 thousand students in Harbin University for the aged, while only 34 in the classroom. In order to make the current curriculum work, the classroom and teachers are running at full capacity.
Zheng Yan's distress is a microcosm of the present situation of the University for the aged. Compared with the rapidly growing students, the Faculty of the aged universities is far from meeting their needs. Even some successful universities have lagged behind their huge demand.
the head of an old university in Jiangsu complained that old universities are not the same as ordinary universities, and they can't move to remote places, taking into account the convenience of the elderly, but there is no place to expand now.
student explosion also makes the shortage of teachers begin to highlight. An old university teacher said too hard: "full load operation is good, many of our teachers are overloaded. But seeing the old people so eager to learn, we can only persuade ourselves to stick to it. I hope more people will join the ranks of the old university teachers.
in addition, funding has also become a major problem. An elderly university official said: "the charge for elderly education is low, and no institution can sustain it." At present, the education for the aged belongs to the public welfare undertakings, which is subsidized by the government. However, the investment in this area can not meet the needs, and the educational resources are still very tight.
identity discrimination is also a problem that some elderly people are eager to learn. Many colleges and universities which rely on well-known universities or units have only recruited retirees of their own units, which makes many elderly people sigh. The enrollment conditions of some universities for the elderly limit academic qualifications and professional titles, and these barriers are more difficult for most of the elderly in society.
Ding Jianzhong said that the common phenomenon of resource inequity in primary and secondary schools is the same in old universities. Many students are doing well in Wuxi old university, and even a few trains will come to study. "In fact, some districts and streets also have elderly universities and elderly activity centers, but because of insufficient hardware conditions, the elderly can only go far."
in addition to more and better older universities, Shao Xiaoying, an associate professor of social science at the Fudan University, said that school is difficult to reflect the limitations and monotony of the choice of old people's cultural life. On the one hand, the old universities should be appropriately expanded; on the other hand, the government and society should proceed from the essence of the old people's spiritual needs. Expansion, so that the elderly do not have to squeeze the old university this "single log bridge". (reporter Liu Weiwei, Wang Feifei, PI Shu, Chu Qin, Asia, Zhou Rui Si, Nan Ting Zhang Chen)