From the 4-9th April 2018, the OUC held an advanced seminar for backbone tutors in its accounting majors, in order to strengthen the construction of the teaching faculty for accounting majors within the OUC's organisational system, raise the level of the tutors’ teaching and improve their comprehensive quality. More than 100 full-time tutors from the OUC’s 41 branches, as well as some from the OUC Experimental School, attended the seminar and completed the programme.

The seminar lasted for one week and focused on training, cutting-edge academic issues, and teaching experience exchange for three courses, Intermediate Financial Accounting, Computerised Accounting, and Financial Management. The chief editors and lecturers of these three courses including Professors Yang Youhong and Wang Bin from Beijing Technology and Business University and Professor Wang Gang from Beijing Information Science and Technology University were invited to provide detailed instructions on the teaching and overall logical structure of the courses, as well as the most recent accounting knowledge. The training adopted the format of lectures by experts, Q&A, group discussions, and seminars. 

Vice president of the OUC Liu Chen awarded certificates of completion and made the concluding remark. He pointed out that within the context of a changing environment for higher continuing degree education in China, it is of essential importance to implement reform of the OUC’s Accounting major, which will play a significant role in the future system construction of the OUC. The teaching goals, contents, and curriculum system of accounting majors have to be reformed, tightly adhering to national social and economic transformation and the sustainable development of the OUC.

The attendees said that they had greatly benefited from the programme. They said that this one-week seminar gave them a clear understanding of their responsibilities and enhanced their theoretical cultivation of the discipline and access to other teaching experience. They hope that, in future, a diverse range of trainings will be offered, opportunities for exchange and discussion will increase, and the frequency and length of training will be extended.

By Yan Xiaohui, OUC