On October 15th, 2012, the Second National Foundry Industry Education and Training Work Conference organized by the China Foundry Association was held at the Heilongjiang Institute of Science and Technology. Mr. Li Linshu, vice president of the OUC, attended the conference and signed the Cooperation Intention Between The OUC
Henan RTVU has been admitted to the Sixth Cross-Strait Cultural & Creative Industries Research Alliance. Professor Li Junsheng, dean of Henan RTVU Art School, and Li Hai'an, senior teacher of the Art School, were invited to participate in the forum and deliver speeches at the parallel sessions.
In the early morning of October 14, RTVU in Sihong County of Jiangsu Province was filled with the boisterous sound of village officials arriving for their first class of college education. A programme was launched in July of this year to provide village officials in Sihong County with a college education.
Shaanxi RTVU’s Yan’an Branch School reached an agreement with Yan’an Prison to provide an opportunity for prisoners to receive higher education and improve their life. The two sides launched the Prison Education programme on October 31, 2012. On that day, Mr. Zhang Zhenhua, Secretary of the Party Committee of
The 2012 National Teacher Training Programme, undertaken by Gansu RTVU to provide distance training to backbone primary and secondary school teachers in rural areas of Gansu Province, has already been launched. Recently Gansu RTVU has held training classes for 476 teachers. After completing their training,
On October 11, 2012, the OUC invited Professor Bob Fryer, chair of the Campaign for Learning UK to deliver a lecture entitled “Promises & Problems of Lifelong Learning”.
Professor Fryer used vivid, illustrative media to introduce the promises and current problems in adult and lifelong learning. He said that the
The meeting featured academic discussions concerning the development of digital library technologies and new application models. Mr. Zhang Ruilin, director of the OUC library, made a keynote speech. Zhao Xuan, from the OUC library, submitted an essay entitled "The Open University of China's Application of a Microblog System", which was awarded second prize in the area of technical application.
On November 1, 2012, a high-level delegation from Canada's Athabasca University visited the OUC. The delegates were Dr. Margaret Haughey (Vice President, Academic), Brian Stewart (Vice President Information Technology), Dr. Cindy Ives (Associate Vice President, Learning Resources) and Dr. Iain Grant (Manager, Special Projects).