1. Student Guidance and Support

1.1 Campus

Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology is located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with two campuses in Guangzhou and Zhaoqing. The college enjoys a beautiful environment, with campus construction adhering to the concept of "mountain - water campus, civilized and scholarly institution".

The total area of the college is 1065 mu, with a building area of 750,700 square meters. The library has a total construction area of 47,000 square meters, with a collection of 1,830,500 books (including 1,098,300 paper books and 732,200 e-books), providing students with rich reading resources. The gymnasium covers an area of 27,000 square meters, which can meet the needs of students' sports and fitness. There are 257 laboratories with a use area of 28,932.91 square meters, providing good conditions for students' experimental courses and practical operations. The campus network is well-developed, with the network structure reaching buildings at a speed of over 10,000 megabits and desktops at 10,000 megabits, realizing full coverage of wired and wireless networks, as well as 4G/5G communication, which is convenient for students to access information and carry out online learning. The campus green coverage rate is also in line with the relevant standards, creating a pleasant ecological environment for students.

1.2 Student Accommodation

The building area of student dormitories in Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology is 269,700 square meters. The dormitories are well-managed and equipped with complete facilities. Each dormitory is clean, bright, and has good lighting. It is equipped with basic facilities such as beds, desks, chairs, and wardrobes. Some dormitories are also equipped with air conditioners, fans, and other equipment to ensure students' comfortable living environment.

The college has sufficient dormitory rooms to meet the accommodation needs of students. As of a certain period, the number of dormitory rooms and beds can be adjusted according to the actual number of students. For students who do not want to live in the dormitory, they can choose to rent off-campus housing according to their own circumstances.

1.3 Teaching Facilities

The teaching area of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology is rationally planned. There are 571 classrooms with a total area of 106,086.11 square meters, which can accommodate a large number of students for classes. There are 150 laboratories with a construction area of 28,932.91 square meters, which are equipped with advanced experimental equipment to support students' experimental teaching and scientific research activities. There are 69 computer rooms with 4,250 computers, with 13.39 teaching-use computers per 100 students, which is convenient for students to carry out computer-related learning and operations. There are 296 multimedia classrooms with 27,579 seats and 16 voice classrooms with 886 seats, which can meet the teaching needs of different courses and teaching methods.

The teaching buildings have a unique style and a reasonable layout. Some teaching buildings are connected by corridors, which is convenient for students to move between different classrooms and avoid the inconvenience caused by bad weather. At the same time, the college also pays attention to the accessibility of teaching facilities for students with special needs, and has set up corresponding facilities to reflect the college's inclusive concept.

1.4 Sports Facilities

The sports area of the college has advanced and complete facilities. There are indoor and outdoor sports fields with a total area of 57,267.68 square meters, including an indoor sports ground of 26,698.57 square meters and an outdoor sports ground of 30,569.11 square meters. There is a 400-meter standard plastic track and field stadium, as well as a number of basketball courts, volleyball courts, an indoor swimming pool, football fields, tennis courts, and expansion training grounds, which are all free for teachers and students to use. These sports facilities can meet the needs of students' daily sports and fitness, and also provide good conditions for sports competitions and extracurricular activities.

1.5 Digital Facilities

Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology attaches great importance to the construction of digital facilities. The college has invested a large amount of funds in the construction of campus network software and hardware infrastructure, and has achieved remarkable results. The campus network has a stable operation, with a total bandwidth of 70Gb, which can meet the needs of teaching, scientific research, and daily campus life.

The college has developed a series of application management systems, covering various aspects such as office, personnel, assets, finance, students, and campus life, initially realizing the informatization of teaching and management. For example, through the learning platforms such as Chaoxing and Wisdom Tree, teachers can better carry out teaching reform and innovation, and students can complete online elective courses, broaden learning channels, and improve learning efficiency.

In addition, the college has also promoted the construction of mobile service platforms, such as the mobile repair service platform, which improves the efficiency of logistics services. The college has also developed a student loan management system to simplify the loan processing process and improve service efficiency. At the same time, the integrated student service system is officially used, which includes functions such as online leave approval, complaint and suggestion platforms, psychological counseling, counselor management, and access control management, providing students with comprehensive and convenient services.

1.6 Library Facilities and Services

The library of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology covers an area of 47,000 square meters. As of 2024, it has a collection of 1,830,500 copies of books (including 1,098,300 paper books and 732,200 e-books), 576 kinds of professional periodicals, and rich digital resources such as CNKI journal databases, CNKI master’s and doctoral thesis databases, and CNKI academic album databases. The college has formulated a series of library management regulations to ensure the order of the library and the integrity of book resources.

The library provides 5,847 reading seats for students, and is open from Monday to Sunday, with a long opening time of 98 hours per week, which is convenient for students to study and read. In addition to providing basic borrowing and reading services, the library also regularly holds various reading promotion activities, such as reading sharing sessions, reading marathons, and academic lectures, to create a strong reading atmosphere on campus.

1.7 Curriculum Resources and Academic Guidance

Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology is equipped with rich curriculum resources for students' academic guidance. In addition to professional courses, the college also offers a series of compulsory courses related to academic guidance, such as graduation thesis guidance, innovation education, entrepreneurship education, career planning, employment guidance, entrance education, military training, physical and mental health education, etc., to enrich students' knowledge and skills outside their majors.

The college provides a large number of online elective courses for students to choose from, covering various fields such as humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and arts. These elective courses are designed to expand students' knowledge, improve their comprehensive quality, and meet the different interests and needs of students. At the same time, the college regularly conducts public lectures on topics such as "mental health education, anti-fraud, AIDS prevention", giving students relevant guidance and help.

1.8 Freshman Orientation

The college conducts unified military training and orientation for first-year students. The entrance education/orientation mainly includes various forms such as meetings, lectures, and campus tours. College leaders, professional teachers, and counselors will communicate with students on the spot, introduce the college's history, culture, school-running philosophy, and major settings, and help students better understand the college and their majors. The major introduction focuses on teaching arrangements, course plans, examination plans, degree awarding, and major development directions, so that students can have a clear understanding of their future studies.

1.9 Services provided by the Student Affairs Office

The college has established a Student Affairs Office and formulated a series of student management regulations, such as the "Student Handbook of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology". The Student Affairs Office is responsible for students' ideological and political education, daily management, student counseling, accommodation management, financial aid, and mental health support.

The Student Affairs Office performs its duties in the following aspects:

 - Inspect, supervise, and assess the implementation of moral education programs in each college to ensure the effectiveness of moral education.

 - Conduct research on students' feedback, study, life, and mental health, and timely understand students' ideological trends to provide targeted guidance.

 - Strengthen the theoretical research of student work, put forward corresponding improvement measures, and promote the development of student work.

 - Be responsible for the work of rewards and regulations, such as the evaluation of scholarships and grants, the selection of outstanding student cadres, and the handling of disciplinary violations, to encourage students to make progress and maintain good school spirit.

 - Approve reports on student disciplinary measures to ensure the fairness and justice of disciplinary actions.

 - Assess students' comprehensive quality to provide a basis for students' development and evaluation.

 - Handle appeals related to the selection of scholarships and grants to ensure the fairness of the selection process.

 - Be responsible for the issuance and replacement of student ID cards and train ticket discount cards to facilitate students' study and life.

 - Develop a student work assistant team to improve the efficiency of student management and service.

 - Inspect and supervise the attendance rate to maintain good teaching order.

 - Monitor the development of students' good study habits to help students improve their learning efficiency.

 - Organize campus cultural activities such as career planning and safety education to expand students' quality and promote the construction of campus culture.

 - Provide full-time counselors for each first-year class. Counselors are responsible for students' daily life management, study counseling, and psychological counseling, and play an important role in strengthening the communication between teachers and students and improving the quality of education and management.

1.10 Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology enrolls students from all over the country, and the student body comes from different regions, cultures, and ethnic groups, showing rich diversity. The college actively promotes internationalization, and has carried out cooperation with many international institutions. For example, it has carried out "3 + 2" undergraduate-master joint training programs with institutions such as the King's College Australia and the Australian School of Business and Management, and has also carried out credit-recognition projects and postgraduate recommendation projects with other international universities.

The college has formulated a series of regulations and management measures for international students to ensure their equal access to education and a good learning and living environment. At the same time, the college also organizes various inclusive activities for international students and Chinese students, such as international cultural festivals, language exchange activities, etc., to strengthen cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.

The college has established a student financial aid management center to ensure that students from poor families can enjoy equal educational opportunities. Through scholarships, grants, student loans, and work-study programs, the college helps students solve financial problems and enables them to complete their studies smoothly. In addition, the college also provides assistance to students with disabilities and special health conditions, and takes corresponding measures according to national policies and regulations to ensure that they receive equal education.

1.11 Mental Health Support

The college has established a Mental Health Education Center to carry out a variety of mental health education activities. After the first-year students enter the college, the Mental Health Education Center will carry out mental health publicity and education activities in military training squadrons, classes, and dormitories, mainly through knowledge lectures, distribution of publicity materials, etc., to help freshmen adapt to college life.

The college offers Physical and Mental Health Education courses in the first semester of junior college and the second semester of undergraduate college, with 32 teaching hours and 2 credits. Through classroom discussions, case analyses, and other forms, students' awareness of mental health is enhanced, and they are guided to master methods of dealing with mental problems.

Every year, the Mental Health Education Center organizes psychological tests for first-year students and provides support services for students with potential mental health problems based on the test results. During daily study and life, students can visit the psychological consultation room on their own, and psychological counselors will provide various forms of consultation services, including development consultation, adaptation consultation, and obstacle consultation, to help students solve psychological confusion and problems. For students with serious mental health problems, the college will refer them to professional psychological clinics in a timely manner to prevent and reduce psychological crisis incidents. In addition, the Mental Health Education Center also provides mental health tests, personality tests, and talent evaluations for students of all grades to help students better understand themselves and plan their careers.

2. Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Strategies

2.1 Teaching Emphasis and Teaching Concept

The teaching and education of Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology focus on "cultivating high-quality application-oriented talents with professional expertise, innovation ability, and the ability to adapt to the needs of economic and social development". The college adheres to the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concept, that is, taking students as the center, focusing on achievement-oriented learning, and continuously improving education and teaching through continuous improvement.

2.2 Teaching Features

In terms of learning plan formulation, the college integrates public elective courses, encourages students to participate in individualized learning planning, and incorporates innovation credit identification work. Innovation credit is an important measure for the college to promote innovative education. Students need to obtain a certain number of innovation credits before graduation. These credits can be obtained through various channels, such as participating in scientific and technological innovation competitions, obtaining professional certificates, engaging in internships, and participating in social practice activities. The innovation credit system provides students with a broader space for independent learning and personality development.

2.3 Teaching Quality Assurance System

The college has established a comprehensive teaching quality assurance system. This system includes a decision-making and command system, a teaching operation management system, a teaching quality standard system, a teaching monitoring and evaluation system, and an information feedback and rectification system. Through "establishing a three-level supervision organization", "strengthening peer review", "conducting student satisfaction surveys", "holding student representative forums", "carrying out online student evaluation activities", and establishing a "Student Feedback Mechanism", the college ensures the quality of teaching and continuously improves the teaching level.

2.4 Characteristics of Teaching Methods and Strategies

According to the national teaching quality standards for undergraduate majors in colleges and universities, the college's Curriculum Development Committee formulates talent training plans and designs course syllabuses based on the OBE teaching concept. Teachers adopt a variety of teaching methods according to the syllabus, with student-centered teaching as the main approach. They combine teaching methods such as "group teaching, scenario teaching, problem-solving-based teaching, task-driven teaching, and flipped classroom" to improve students' learning enthusiasm and initiative.

Teachers also make use of high-quality online course resources to carry out "Online + Offline" blended teaching. They establish their own online courses on the online teaching platform, and students can preview course materials online before class, and carry out various classroom activities such as sign-in, timed academic competitions, questionnaires, and classroom tests through the platform during offline teaching. After class, teachers can assign and grade homework through the platform, and organize examinations, truly realizing the deep integration of education and modern information technology. In addition, the college sets up a large number of practical courses in the training program, which are carried out in laboratories or university-enterprise cooperation bases to improve students' practical ability.

2.5 Examination Scheme and Strategy

Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology has formulated examination management measures to clarify the examination process and course learning evaluation methods. The final score of a student's course consists of two parts: process assessment and final examination results. The process assessment includes aspects such as attendance rate, classroom Q&A, quizzes, and homework, and is calculated according to the proportion specified in the course specification document and syllabus. The final examination form varies according to different majors, including written tests, practical training, work creation, theses, and reports, aiming to comprehensively assess students' knowledge and skills.

2.6 Student Feedback

The University encourages students to participate in teaching-related decision-making and provides multiple channels for students to give feedback. For example, the college holds a "President's Reception Day" once a semester, where students can put forward suggestions and feedback on various aspects such as classroom teaching, practical teaching, teaching supervision, and campus life. Each college has set up a "Dean's mailbox" to collect students' opinions on study and life and will reply to students regularly after sorting and summarizing.

The University also arranges counselors for each class and assigns all cadres of the college to serve as class assistants to carry out work such as "teacher-student discussion, student complaints, and life rights protection". In addition, the college has established a Teaching Supervision Office and solicits feedback from student liaisons of various majors. Student liaisons can attend classes of different disciplines and provide feedback on teaching quality from the student's perspective.

The University has a "university-college" two-level student union. Students can participate in the student union's activities in their spare time and participate in the decision-making of the university’s teaching work through the student congress held every year. At the same time, the university has promulgated measures for the construction and management of student organizations. There are six types of student associations, such as "ideological and political, academic and technological, innovation and entrepreneurship, culture and sports, voluntary public welfare, self-discipline and mutual assistance." These associations are equipped with instructors to guide students to carry out various activities, enriching students' after-school life and promoting the all-round development of students.

3. Staff Recruitment, Training and Development

As of 2024, Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology has 1,386 full-time teachers and 157 part-time teachers. The college has established a Personnel Department and a Teacher Development Center, which are responsible for the recruitment, training, and development of faculty and staff.

The college has formulated a series of policies and measures to ensure the quality of the teaching staff. For example, the "High-level Talent Introduction Management Measures (Trial)", "Faculty Training Management Measures (Trial)", and "Dinghu Scholar Incentive Plan Implementation Measures (Trial)" have been formulated to attract high-level talents and encourage teachers to improve their professional qualities.

Every year, the Personnel Department provides a series of services for the whole college, such as professional title promotion, training, study abroad, and teaching management and teaching skills training.

In terms of professional title promotion, the college has established a scientific and reasonable evaluation system. It not only considers teachers' teaching achievements, but also their scientific research contributions, such as the number of papers published in high-level academic journals, participation in provincial and national research projects, and the transformation of scientific research results. This encourages teachers to actively engage in teaching and research, continuously improve their professional levels, and strive for higher-level professional titles.

For training, the college offers a diverse range of programs. There are teaching-oriented training courses that focus on the latest teaching methods and educational technologies, such as blended-learning strategies, flipped classroom implementation, and the use of educational software. These courses help teachers keep up with the trends in education and improve their classroom teaching quality. In addition, there are subject-related training programs that enable teachers to deepen their knowledge in their respective fields, so that they can better guide students in professional learning.

Regarding study abroad opportunities, the college has established cooperation with many international universities. Teachers can participate in short-term overseas study tours, visiting scholar programs, or international academic conferences. Through these experiences, teachers can learn advanced international teaching concepts and research methods, and establish international academic connections. This not only broadens their horizons but also enriches the international perspective in the college's teaching and research.

The Teacher Development Center also plays a crucial role. It organizes regular teaching seminars and workshops, where teachers can exchange teaching experiences, share teaching resources, and jointly explore solutions to teaching problems. Moreover, the center provides one-on-one mentoring for young teachers. Senior and experienced teachers are paired with new teachers to offer guidance on teaching plans, classroom management, and student-teacher communication. This mentoring system helps new teachers grow rapidly and integrate into the college's teaching environment smoothly.

To further enhance teachers' practical abilities, the college encourages them to participate in industry-university-research cooperation projects. Teachers can take part-time positions in enterprises, engage in practical projects, and bring real-world cases and practical experience back to the classroom. This not only enriches the teaching content but also improves the practicality of teaching, making the education provided by the college more in line with the actual needs of the industry.

In addition, the college has set up a special fund for teachers' development. This fund can be used to support teachers' participation in high-level academic activities, purchase professional books and materials, and conduct small-scale teaching research projects. By providing financial support, the college shows its determination to promote the growth and development of teachers, and encourages them to continuously pursue excellence in teaching and research.