“Everybody look this way, okay, click! The camera shutter was pressed.” On May 5, the first "Sunshine Class" of 52 students graduated in front of the gate of Guangxi RTVU. When I approached this special group of students, I could appreciate how different their college lives were from the rest — how difficult and yet how brimming with optimism and confidence.
On September 2, at the London Paralympics Men’s 50m Freestyle S11 Final, Yang Bozun, a student from the Tianjin RTVU School for the Disabled, won the gold medal and broke the world record with a performance of 25″27. On September 3, at the Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 Final, he won his second Paralympic gold with a performance of 1′10″11,
On September 16-19, 2012, the 4th KNOU/OUC/OUJ International Seminar on Distance Learning was held in Korea. The theme of the conference was “Future of Open and Distance Learning for Knowledge Network Society”. Presidents, scholars and renowned international experts of open and distance learning from China, Japan
The first free computer training class given to senior citizens by Zhejiang RTVU came to an end yesterday. The training programme lasted nearly a month, and 55 seniors from 24 Hangzhou communities averaged 66 years old received the training. Qiu Guoqian, the oldest student, is already 81 years of age.
On September 9th, Shenzhen Radio and TV University saw the intake of another 6,485 students for this year’s autumn semester. The university indicates that one out of four college students in Shenzhen is engaged in its open education programme.
In the 33 years since its establishment, China Central Radio and TV University (CCRTVU) has become an important component in China's higher education system, with a schooling system covering all of urban and rural areas in China. This "university without walls" has contributed 9.5 million graduates to the nation's economic growth and social development. On June 21, 2012, the Ministry of Education issued an official
On June 25, 2012, a 13-member delegation headed by Nils Usakovs, mayor of Riga, visited the Open University of China (OUC). Vice President Zhang Shaogang met with the delegation along with Director Yang Yongbo of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, Vice Director Li Fujia of the ChineseLanguageCenter, Vice Director Wang Ying of the Research Institute of Open and Distance Education and other OUC colleagues.