Having completed scholarship evaluation for 2020, the Open University of China (OUC), after verification and public announcement, decided to grant OUC scholarships to 21,999 students. 19,762 students were awarded the OUC scholarship, and 2,237 students won the OUC special scholarship for the “Long March Belt” Education Project Targeted at Alleviating Poverty.
The Evaluation Meeting for OUC’s 2020 Scholarship
The OUC’s 2020 scholarship appraisal work officially started in January 2021. All OUC branches attached great importance to this work and seriously organised both the application and preliminary examination of the scholarships. On the basis of a preliminary review of the candidates’ materials from June to August, on 17th September, the OUC also organised an expert evaluation meeting to conduct a final review of the materials submitted by the branches and determine the list of scholarship winners. After a public announcement in late-September, the list of winners was finally determined.
The 21,999 scholarship winners come from 45 OUC branches, as well as the OUC Experimental School, the Bayi School, the School for the Air Force, the Jundun School, the School for the Disabled, the School of Automotive Engineering, and the Postal School. The scholarship recipients include farmers, teachers, officers, and soldiers, as well as workers from all walks of life. All of them worked hard and overcame the challenges of studying while they worked. They excelled thanks to their diligence and excellent learning results. It is hoped that the other OUC students will learn from the example of these award-winning students, make full use of the learning resources and information technology conditions of modern distance education, study hard, strive for progress, and create a life of learning.
By Zhou Wen,OUC