On the mainland side, this major started late and the starting point was very low. At present, there is almost no such major in a college, mainly two, three and specialized courses. The employment prospects are average. Unless you have a national appraiser qualification certificate, who will find a 20-year-old student to appraise their jewelry?
Guilin University of Technology Jewelry and Testing Center is a comprehensive research institution integrating jewelry teaching, scientific research and testing. This center is the first center in China to recruit graduate and undergraduate students majoring in jewelry. 1989 has been established for 20 years, and has trained senior professional and technical personnel with different educational levels, such as undergraduates, masters and doctors. A large number of high-quality talents in gem identification, quality evaluation, process design, synthesis optimization, processing, production and management have been trained. The center has more than ten experienced experts and professors and good hardware facilities. There are abundant teachers, including 3 professors, 3 associate professors, 3 doctors and 6 masters. There are 6 appraisers with FGA (British Gemmology Association) certificates, 3 national registered jewelry appraisers, 2 directors of China Gemmology Association, and members of the Gemological Qualification Examination Expert Committee of the National Quality Inspection Bureau 1 person. The center has a jewelry testing center, jewelry first-,second-and third-level appraisal rooms, gem processing laboratories, jewelry making laboratories, jade carving laboratories and many other professional laboratories. It also has a large number of imported and domestic advanced gem identification instruments, jewelry production and processing equipment, and all-round gem teaching specimens from all over the world.
Over the years, he has made great achievements in gem teaching and scientific research, and has undertaken more than ten national natural science foundation projects, Guangxi natural science foundation projects and provincial and ministerial special projects. Good results have been achieved in the research work of "Challenge Cup" scientific and technological activity project, Guangxi teaching reform scientific and technological research project, and university teaching reform scientific and technological research project. Among them, college students' scientific and technological activities won national awards for two consecutive years, other projects won the first prize of outstanding teaching achievements in Guangxi, the third prize of scientific and technological progress, and five other second prizes; The multimedia courseware Gemmology won the first prize in the 6th Guangxi Higher Education Teaching Software Competition. At the same time, he applied for 2 individual patents, published academic monographs 10 and published hundreds of academic papers.
The jewelry education and testing center of our school has also made remarkable achievements in running schools and providing foreign services. 1995, the signing of a joint school-running agreement between our school and the British Gemmology Association and the British Jewellery Institute has injected new vitality and vitality into our jewelry teaching and research, and created a new situation of our jewelry all-round education. The students trained by our school have achieved excellent results in the annual world unified examination: as the training base of FGA, 23 students have been trained so far, more than * * * 100 students have obtained the qualification certificate of FGA international jewelry appraiser, 3 students have won the Anderson Metal Award, the highest honor award of British Gemmology Association, and 4 students have won the excellent prize of FGA certificate examination. Our school has passed 100% for five consecutive years, with an average passing rate of 92%, ranking first in the world in FGA qualification examination.