The OUC Signs Cooperative Letter of Intent with America’s API to Introduce Online Courses on Nursing
On the 22nd of October, 2013, the Open University of China (OUC) signed a cooperative letter of intent with the Academic Partnership International (API) in London. The signing ceremony was attended by the President of the OUC, Yang Zhijian, Vice President of the OUC, Zhang Shaogang, the Dean of the OUC School of Agroforestry and Medicine,
On October 29, 2013, the opening ceremony of the Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) was held at its headquarters. Doctor Yang Zhijian, the President of the OUC, inaugurated the OUC Beijing Experimental School, and authorized the Experimental Schools in Taiyuan and Nanhai. The ceremony was hosted by the OUC Vice President Yan Bing.
The opening ceremony for the “Western Yunnan Learning Website” of the Open University of China (OUC) was held in the city of Dali in Yunnan province on November 5, 2013. Vice Minister Lu Xin of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Vice Governor Shen Peiping of Yunan Province began the ceremony, which was hosted by Director-General Xie Huanzhong of the MOE Department of Development and Planning.
At 9 o’clock on the morning of November 1, the first regular online meeting of teaching affairs management of Open Education in the provincial Radio and TV University system (RTVUs) was formally launched via a province-wide video conference. The faculty and administrative staff from RTVU branch schools and teaching units located throughout the province, as well as the Academic Affairs Department and teaching departments of Hunan RTVU gathered on the Internet to discuss their work and exchange experiences.
On October 25, 2013, Zhejiang Lifelong Learning for All Activity Week was launched at the West Lake Cultural Plaza in Hangzhou. “Learning Square • Zhejiang Lifelong Learning Online”, a programme developed and run by Zhejiang Radio & TV University (RTVU), was opened at the same time along with the Community Education Centre of Zhejiang.
A list of “Learning Stars of the People” award winners was announced at the opening ceremony of the 9th Lifelong Learning for All Activity Week held in Tianjin. Among the 104 winners, nine were enrolled students or alumni from the Radio & TV University system (RTVUs).
On 24th and 25th of October, Bingtuan RTVU held its eighth “Open Teaching Class Observation” Contest, attended by 51 tutors from branch schools and the main campus. First prize went to Jiao Xinshu from the Branch School of the Sixth Division and second prizes went to Yang Yang from the Fifth Division and Sun Juelin from the Eighth Division. While Yin Yuemei from the Fourth Division, Li Rongxin from the Thirteenth Division, Tan Lijing from the Tenth Division and Liu Guoyu from the Ninth Division won the third prizes. As announced in the document “The decision of awarding 'The Gardener Award for Special Education by Bank of Communications' to 201 comrades including Liu Jianping”(CDPF Office [2013] No.7), issued jointly by the General Office of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation (CDPF) and the General Office of the Ministry of Education (MOE), Qu Wei, Vice President of Shenzhen School for the Disabled of the OUC,