Despite its tendency to use the name Huizhou "University" in English, Huizhou College ; pinyin: Huzhu xuyun), previously

called "Huizhou University" in (Chinese: Chinese ( ), is a commmunity college i.e. a .

It was established in 1921 as the Guangzhou Municipal Normal School. In March of 2000 the school was granted the status of a college ( ) and began to offer undergraduate programs. It is not authorised to grant MA degrees.

The college has over 12,000 diploma and degree students, 5,800 mature aged students and over 2,000 online external students registered with the school. The total number of staff consist of 544 professional teachers. This includes 54 professors (albeit some, especially foreign teachers who are assigned, or claim the rank of professor on their own but with the administration's approval, with a degree lower than a PhD -- which would be a requirement at a real university) and 161 associate professors all with a master's degree. The "university" is in a very poor state of repair. For illustration see the attached pictures. We cannot recommend it for employment to foreigners.

The inside of a teacher's flat (provided as a part of the contract), bathroom:

The inside of a teacher's flat (provided as a part of the contract), what was supposed to be used as a bedroom, but luckily there was another room, so this horror could be kept locked for a year (because despite repeated appeals to fix the sewage leak from above, the Huizhou so-called university administration did nothing and even punished the teacher for complaining by refusing to pay the bonus that the City Hall has paid for him, for activities done at the City Hall, but at Huizhou College's insistence):

Yes, that is a stalactite formed with sewage water from the bathroom above (bathrooms are adjacent to these rooms on all floors, sharing a wall) dripping over 12 months minimum. And the fact that the teacher living here complained about it four times over the course of the year cost him the RMB 20,000 (2500 Euros) bonus.

Kitchen sink faucet:

broken and leaking for weeks.

Air conditioner (Southern Guangdong is south of the Tropic of Capricorn, thus air conditioning is necessary for at least half a year) dripping condensation water right on the only electric socket it could be plugged in, causing short circuits weekly, with a wait of up to 10 days (at + 38 degrees and 90% humidity) for it to be repaired.

The corridor/stairway leading to teachers' apartments:

The canal on the campus ground (supposed to be used for water management, i.e. to avoid floods), which students turn into a sewage disposal, because they prefer throwing garbage out of the window rather than into the garbage bins:

And the teaching building: with windows broken and or always open, with mere fans and no air conditioning in terrible heat and humidity, on the sixth floor without an elevator, and with mould and grime covering a part of the outer wall (on the stairway that connects classrooms):