Since 10 September 2021, with local Covid-19 cases reported in Putian, Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other cities in Fujian Province, the work of controlling infection has quickly escalated to its highest level there.
In order to promote the construction of disciplines within it, the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Open University of China (OUC), along with the Economics Sub-Committee of the OUC Academic Committee, held an academic salon titled "New Finance, New Forms of Business, and New Trends" on the morning of 28 September 2021.
On 28 September 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and the University of London (UoL) connected via video transmission for the opening ceremony of a 12-week online tutor-training programme aiming to help OUC teachers with distance teaching, design of online classes, evaluation, and other areas, and provide a platform for their collaboration. Over 250 teachers from the OUC headquarters and more than 40 branches are participating.
On 6 April 2021, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris officially announced that the Open University of China’s (OUC) “One College Student Per Village” programme was awarded the 2020 King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education (UNESCO ICT in Education Prize, hereinafter referred to as the King Hamad Prize). This is the highest prize for education informatisation in the United Nations system and the first time that China has received the prize.
On the morning of 29 September 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) held a video meeting to deploy 2021 teaching inspection work.
On 29 September 2021, a seminar aiming to enhance the ability of OUC teachers to use information technology, focusing on methods, curriculum design for online teaching, and common tools, was launched in a live broadcast. The seminar was organised by the Department of External Education and Training and operated by the OUC Teacher Training School.
On 24 September 2021, the Organising Committee of the China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation Competition announced the projects shortlisted for the finals. Among the 150 projects in the vocational education category, 12 from the Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) as well as the Liaoning, Zhejiang, Qingdao, Henan, Wuhan, Hunan and Guangzhou branches made the list.
Deng Yangqing enrolled in the junior-college Agricultural Economic Management programme at the Shaxian workstation of Fujian Open University (Fujian OU) in the autumn of 2021. He was born in December 1928, and this year will see his 93th birthday.