In order to exercise the spirit of the announcement of Bachelor's Degree Conferring Work in the Open University of China (OUC), the Faculty of Economics and Management held a seminar on comprehensive graduation practice and degree granting work for three undergraduate majors (starting from junior college level) — business administration, accounting, and finance — in Kunming from 24-25 April 2019.
A total of 113 leaders and relevant teachers in charge of the majors from 43 branches participated in the seminar.
Liu Chen, deputy secretary of the OUC, attended the meeting and made a speech. Liu Chen pointed out that from the perspective of teaching quality assurance, we should attach great importance to the importance of comprehensive practice and degree awarding in the majors. We should take every stage of the dissertation process seriously, do a good job of guiding and managing paper writing, and strictly control its quality. Liu Chen stressed that degree awarding is not something that exists in isolation. We must move forward, pay attention to the whole process of teaching, successfully design, organise, and operate the majors, and effectively improve the quality of teaching.
Wu Guoxiang and Liu Zhimin discussed the basic situation of degree awarding work over the past three years, as well as the main problems to do with dissertations on behalf of the Economics Degree Sub-Committee and the Management Degree Sub-Committee and proposed a direction for future work.
Liu Zhifang, Deputy Director of the Faculty of Economics and Management, gave a special report on the tasks and requirements related to awarding degrees in the field of economics and management at the OUC and introduced in detail the relevant documents of the degree awarding system, the requirements and procedures for graduation dissertation writing, the response process, and the standards of the OUC’s degree award system.
Five teachers including Liu Xiaoyan from the Chengdu Branch, Xu Yufeng from the Henan Branch, Sun Hui from Shanghai Open University, Huang Qing'an from the Fujian Branch, and Huang Caihong from the Anhui Branch, shared their experience of comprehensive practices and degree application from the perspectives of how to guide the writing of dissertations, the review dissertation review procedures of their branches, and how to improve the quality of dissertations. The participating teachers held active, enthusiastic discussions.
By Ding Weijia,OUC