On 22 December 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting on spring 2023 enrolment. Li Song, OUC vice president, and a member of the OUC Party Committee, delivered a speech, and 7,682 people, including leaders of the OUC headquarters teaching departments, heads of some majors, staff of the OUC headquarters enrolment office, leaders and staff in charge of enrolment in branches (schools) and study centres, attended remotely.
The meeting was presided over by Gu Xiaohua, director of the OUC Academic Affairs Department.
Li Song stressed that we should implement the guidance of the 20th National Congress of the CPC and continue to promote the strategy of “creating excellence and improving quality” at the OUC. He noted that adjustments to the structures of enrolment in some undergraduate and junior-college programmes in 2022 have been effective. Each aspect of education should be implemented in accordance with the policies and guidance related to higher continuing degree education issued by the MOE in 2022, as well as regulations recently released by the OUC Academic Affairs Department, aiming to ensure the high-quality development of open education. 2023 enrolment should emphasise “stabilising scale, adjusting structure, improving quality, and promoting standard operations”, and adjustment on enrolment proportion should be maintained for undergraduate and junior-college programmes. Measures should also be explored to enhance the proportion of students admitted to undergraduate programmes upon completing junior college, and teaching quality should be constantly improved. Risks should be controlled, and the bottom line should be adhered to in enrolment.
Qi Wenxin, deputy director of the OUC Academic Affairs Department, summarised the enrolment for the fall 2022 semester with detailed data, and made arrangements for the work of the spring 2023 semester, clarifying the working methods for the next step and introducing measures the OUC has been taking to standardise its operations. He mentioned that all units should strictly examine candidate qualifications to ensure that they meet all admissions requirements, and that enrolment advertising should be standardised, revised, and made more efficient, with a pilot “rolling” enrolment project launched.
Personnel from the OUC headquarters responsible for Chinese Language and Literature (an undergraduate programme with a senior high-school prerequisite), Advertising Design and Production(junior college), Party Affairs (junior college), Accounting (junior college and undergraduate), Big Data Technology (junior college and undergraduate), Sports Operations and Management (junior college), Public-service Management (Family Education and Social Education Guidance, an undergraduate programme with a junior-college prerequisite), Chinese Pharmacy (junior college) and Calligraphy (an undergraduate programme with a junior-college prerequisite) gave presentations to promote their majors.
Written by Liu Bojia; photos by Zheng Xubing, OUC