The Open University of China （OUC） and Beijing Jiaotong University (BJU) held a symposium on joint cooperation in the Public Administration (Educational Economy and Management orientation) graduate programme, and a meeting with programme freshmen, on 7 September 2022 to mark the launch of the initiative.

Guo Hai, secretary of the BJU Party Committee, Yan Xuedong, BJU vice president, and Li Song, OUC vice president, attended.

BJU staff introduced a regulation on “Strengthening the Roles of Supervisor Teams in Post-graduate Education” and covered models of training such teams, assessment of lead supervisors, arrangements for joint supervision, the processes of cultivating post-graduate students, and the structure of group meetings. The OUC introduced its Public Administration teaching team and its strengths in terms of research and thesis guidance.

As part of the agreement signed, the BJU hired outstanding OUC teachers as adjuncts and joint supervisors for 2022, aiming to share teaching within the programme and enhance it through optimal combinations of instructors.

The two sides agreed to formulate detailed regulations for implementing the training of post-graduate students and establishing the process of collaboration for the next step.

Guo Hai pointed out that collective guidance of supervisor teams should be set up, and that their cross-disciplinary strengths should be taken advantage of.

Yan Xuedong granting certificates of employment to OUC Professors Li Song and Zhang Xia as BJU adjunct professors.

Li Song expressed his heart-felt thanks to the BJU for its great support of the OUC in terms of teaching-team development. He expressed the hope that the strengths of the two universities would be complementary, with multifaceted cooperation taking place in terms of teaching-team, learner, and resource development, as well as the use of information technology.

The symposium was attended by Shi Xianliang, dean of the BJU School of Economics and Management, and BJU staff; Zhang Xia, dean of the OUC Faculty of Education; and two 2022 freshmen studying Public Administration in the BJU School of Economics and Management.

The students said they would treasure opportunities to undertake in-depth studies and projects with the new teaching teams.

By Faculty of Education, OUC