Higher education institutions are an important field of popular science education, which can greatly contribute to the development of primary and secondary education in remote areas, and colleges and universities should give full play to their advantages to vigorously develop popular science education. As an important force in the national scientific and technological innovation system, colleges and universities are the main position of scientific and technological achievements, with rich human resources and scientific and technological resources, and are excellent "boosters" for the popularization of science. However, there are still some problems in the relevant science popularization in colleges and universities, such as insufficient science popularization funds, single form of science popularization, insufficient establishment of science popularization evaluation system, and ignorance of the actual needs of the people in science popularization content. Through an in-depth analysis of the current situation of popular science education in colleges and universities, this paper proposes measures to effectively improve the current situation of popular science education in colleges and universities by increasing financial investment, carrying out diversified and innovative forms of popular science, perfecting the construction of the evaluation system of popular science and paying attention to the actual needs and professional training, etc., which are committed to promoting the high-quality development of popular science education in colleges and universities and thus helping remote local primary and secondary school science education.

Ruomeng Wu, Huiping Li, Hongyan Pi. The Existing Issues and Development Strategies of Higher Education's Role in Supporting Science Popularization Education in Remote Areas. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 2: 77-83. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060213.

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