In the spring semester of 2021, 12,744 new students enrolled at Qingdao Open University (Qingdao OU) in order to enhance their degrees, a 14% increase over the previous year. In 2019, 15,000 students registered, and 22,000 in 2020.
A head teacher, while connecting a school with its students, is also an educator, manager, service provider, and teacher of ideology and politics. Over my 22 years as a head teacher in radio and TV education, I have always followed the belief that ideological and political education must be given priority and integrated into daily work, guiding students toward adherence to socialism with Chinese characteristics in terms of theory, Chinese culture, patriotic feeling, and desire to serve the country.
On 18 May 2021, Zhu Gaofeng of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), a vice minister in the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and former executive vice president of the CAE, came to the Open University of China (OUC) at its invitation to record an introductory lecture for the 2nd series of courses on "Stronger Manufacturing, Stronger China - Strategies for Developing a Manufacturing Power II: Shifting from Speed to Quality in Development.”
On 17 May 2021, Beijing Polytechnic College held a ceremony to mark its donation of textbooks to an overseas higher-vocational college, part of initiatives to help Chinese vocational education "going global".
Cai Chaoyang, an undergraduate Law student at the OUC Bayi School, said emotionally after finishing his thesis defense: “Thanks to the teachers and staff of the Bayi School of the Open University of China (OUC), it was possible for me to defend my bachelor-degree thesis on time. I am deeply thankful for their willingness to help, and to make allowances for the situations of students.”
Recently, the Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development of the Open University of China (OUC) held a two-day training session at the OUC headquarters on the teaching of ideology and politics.
Yuan Longping, an academician from the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a winner of the Medal of the Republic, passed away in Changsha, Hunan Province at 13:07 on 22 May 2021 at the age of 91.
The Department of External Education and Training of the Open University of China (OUC) launched a teacher-training class for the 7th China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Qingdao, Shandong Province, on 20 and 21 May 2021.