BEIJING, June 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaEdu
Corporation (Nasdaq: CEDU) ("ChinaEdu" or "the Company"), a leading
educational services provider in China, today announced that it has signed a
recruiting and support cooperation agreement with South China University of Technology.
South China University of
Technology is one of the 68 universities that are currently
licensed to offer online degree education by the Ministry of
Education in China. Under the
agreement, the Company's nationwide learning center network will
provide recruiting and support services to South China University of Technology's online
college for a period of five years.
ChinaEdu is currently providing recruiting and support services
to the online colleges of 18 universities which includes:
Nanjing University, Chongqing University, Dongbei University of
Finance and Economics, Dongbei Normal University, Jilin University, Fujian Normal University,
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Southwest Jiaotong University, Beijing
Jiaotong University, China Agricultural University, China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), Beijing Foreign Studies University,
Jiangnan University, Xiamen
University, South China Normal University, Beijing Language and
Culture University, Sichuan Agricultural University and
South China University of
Technology.
About South China University of
Technology
South China University of
Technology is one of China's key
universities operating under the direct leadership of the State
Ministry of Education. The university, which has a total area of
294 hectares, is situated in Guangzhou,
China. The university has two campuses which have over
73,000 students from undergraduate to doctoral programs. The
university has approximately 5,500 faculty members with over 2,000
teachers.
About ChinaEdu
ChinaEdu Corporation is an educational services provider in
China, incorporated as an exempted
limited liability company in the Cayman
Islands. Established in 1999, the Company's primary business
is to provide comprehensive services to the online degree programs
of leading Chinese universities. These services include academic
program development, technology services, enrollment marketing,
student support services and finance operations. The Company's
other lines of businesses include the operation of private primary
and secondary schools, online interactive tutoring services and
providing marketing and support for international curriculum
programs.
The Company believes it is the largest service provider to
online degree programs in China in
terms of the number of higher education institutions that are
served and the number of student enrollments supported. The Company
currently has 16 long-term contracts that generally vary from 10 to
50 years in length. ChinaEdu also performs recruiting services for
18 universities through our nationwide learning center network.
For more information, please contact:
Lily Liu, CFO
ChinaEdu Corporation
Phone: +86-10-8418-6655 x1002
Email: ir@chinaedu.net
S. Jimmy Xia, IR Manager
ChinaEdu Corporation
Phone: +86-10-8418-6655 x1150
Email: ir@chinaedu.net
SOURCE ChinaEdu Corporation