The 2014 Open University of China (OUC) scholarship review has recently been completed, and a total of 8704 students have been awarded scholarships, of which 7530 students received an OUC Scholarship, 524 students won the OUC Scholarship “Fields of Hope”, 96 students obtained the OUC Sunshine Scholarship for the Disabled, and 554 students received the OUC Sergeancy Scholarship.
On July 16, 2015, "the Fifth Forum on the Cultivation of International Chinese Teachers" was held in Beijing, with the theme of "Refined Cultivation". More than 120 experts, teachers, and graduates from domestic and international education institutions, colleges, and universities in China, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan, the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam participated in the forum.
On 14 July 2015, the second working conference of the Quality Assurance Committee of the Open University of China (OUC) was held in Beijing. The conference focused on quality issues, a united quality consensus, clarifying ideas, and taking effective measures to raise overall quality.
In order to fully carry out the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and its Third Plenary Session and Fourth Plenary Session, solidly push forward the implementation of National Outline for Medium- and Long-term Educational Reform and Development, and implement the relative requirements of “Suggestions on the Implementation of Deepening the Reform of Examination and Enrollment System” of the State Council;
On June 30, 2015, the Open University of China (OUC) held the “Six Networks Integration" information technology application show. 64 projects from 22 faculties and departments of the OUC were presented at the show. The colorful exhibition attracted many members of the OUC’s faculty and staff.
The opening ceremony of a series of activities marking the third anniversary of the establishment of the Open University of China (OUC) was held on June 30, 2015.
In order to know the status of the organization of teaching at branches participating in the new learning website and the online courses pilot programme of the Open University of China (OUC), to discuss issues related to mobile phone trial programme, and to exchange views on and discuss measures to promote online teaching, from June 8th to 12th, 2015, the OUC Learner Support Centre visited the OUC Chengdu Branch to carry out a special investigation.
Mr. Yang Zhijian,President of the Open University of China (OUC), attended the Executive Committee Meeting of International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) held in Paris, France on June 8, 2015. It is the second meeting after the ICDE Executive Committee took a conference call in April 2015.