Increasing demand from retirees leaves country facing challenge of finding ‘deeper’ learning strategies, not just ‘hobby’ courses
Qiu Lianru, 66, became a student of a short-term programme at the Arts University Bournemouth in England last year.
Rejecting a traditional restful retirement, Qiu studies fashion design, printmaking, jewellery making and photography and stays in a student dormitory.
“I want myself to keep shining from the inside out after retirement,” Qiu said.
The woman from Beijing was a university student in 1978, which was extremely rare at the time. She worked as a railway engineer and retired in 2014.
