Tianjin University of Technology and Education
https://www.tute.edu.cn/
Address: 1310 Dagu South Road, Hexi District, Tianjin,
China
History
Tianjin University of Technology and Education
(TUTE), known as the “Cradle of Cultivating Teaching
Staff for Vocational Education in China”, was founded in
1979. It is one of the first normal universities in
China to produce vocational teachers and applied
technicians. It is the only local university in Tianjin
to be co-built by Ministry of Education of China and
Tianjin Municipal Government.
University Features
TUTE sticks to the educational philosophy of
“combining theoretic studies with hands-on training to
achieve all-round development”. Since 1990s, a new mode
has been initiated to produce talents. Integrated
vocational teachers have been produced by
double-certificate system. “Double-certificate” refers
to the degree certificate and a national vocational
qualification certificate, which the students get upon
graduation. TUTE received 1st prize of national teaching
achievements twice by this teaching model.
Disciplines and Programs
TUTE has 7 disciplines, namely engineering,
education, science, management, economics, literature
and art, which are operated by 10 colleges. It has a
postdoctoral workstation, 7 first-level discipline
master’s programs, 4 professional degree programs and 44
bachelor’s programs.
Facilitates
TUTE covers an area of more than 800,000m2 with a
construction area of over 470,000m2 and 1,8000 full-time
students, including undergraduate, postgraduate, PHD and
international students. Teachers with technical
qualifications make up 70% of those with double
certificates. TUTE has 11 national experiment
demonstration units (Engineering Training Center) and
training centers, 160 training laboratories, 5
innovation bases and advanced laboratory.
Research and Social Services
Approved by the Ministry of Education and the
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, TUTE
has been rated among the first universities as 13
training bases. TUTE is the leading body of Vocational
Teachers Committee of China Vocational and Technical
Education Society, Normal Vocational and Technical
School Union, Degree and Postgraduate Education Society
and the executive leading body of Vocational Guidance
Committee. Over the past 5 years, TUTE organized and
hosted vocational and technical contests. TUTE also
provides technical support and evaluation for Tianjin
CNC Skills Contest, National Vocational and Technical
Contest.
TUTE is the Headquarter of the Association of
Universities (Colleges) of Applied Sciences to develop
the cooperation with the similar alliance in the world.
TUTE also sets up the World Skills-Chinese Research
Center to provide guidance to the contestants for world
skill competition and the Center of African Union
Studies to do some research projects in the African
fields.
International Exchange and Cooperation
TUTE attaches great importance to develop the
international exchange and cooperation and has got a lot
of achievements in the past few years.
1. Confucius Institutes
With the great help and support of Headquarters of
Confucius Institutes (Hanban), TUTE has set up 2
Confucius Institutes, 4 Confucius Classrooms and 4
Chinese-Language Centers in the first-level universities
in Ethiopia since the year 2009, where the
Chinese-language undergraduate programs are developed
and the local graduates have got good jobs being the
Chinese majors. In the past six years, TUTE has
increased rich experience in operating Confucius
Institutes, one of the Confucius Institutes won the
Prize of “Excellent Confucius Institute” and some
Chinese directors also won the “Excellent” personal
prize by Hanban. In April.2016, TUTE assigned the
Chinese teachers and volunteers to teach Chinese
language at Wintec University in New Zealand.
2.
International Students
TUTE has enrolled nearly 1,000 international students
from more than 70 countries for both short-term and
long-term study since 2003. More than 200
undergraduates, postgraduates and Chinese Language
students from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Poland,
Ukraine, Thailand, etc. study in TUTE yearly.
3. Educational Foreign-Aid
As the first foreign aid base approved by the Ministry
of Education, TUTE has made remarkable achievements in
foreign aid in Africa. TUTE has participated in the
construction work of “Ethio-China Polytechnic College”
since 2007. In 2014, TUTE set up ASEAN Educational
Training Center authorized by MoFA and MoE. TUTE has
assigned over 200 TVET instructors and experts to work
in the developing countries and held vocational
education training programs for African and Asian
countries, with over 1000 trainees benefited.
4. International Cooperation
TUTE has established multilevel exchange and cooperation
projects with more than 40 universities from USA,
Germany, Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, Ethiopia, etc.,
TUTE assigns students to foreign counties like USA,
Korea, Poland and New Zealand to attend different kinds
of exchange programs. Furthermore, TUTE also
enthusiastically develops the joint programs with the
universities from American, European and African
countries.
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