As an important part of tertiary education,non-degree education is indispensable for promoting China's socio-economic development and building China into an inclusive lifelong learning society.Non-degree education not only helps to upskill our work-force and increase their productivity,but also is the key to the professional growth of college teachers.There are numerous and di-versified non-degree programs in China's colleges and universities.To promote research on non-degree education,we held a panel discussion and presented here four articles exploring topics:1)how to promote non-degree tertiary education to build China into a talent competitive and"education strong"country;2)how to transform degree-earning continuing education programs into non-de-gree ones;3)what is the relationship between non-degree education and college teachers'professional growth;4)how to create a synergy between science,industry and non-degree education.
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