On 29 August 2014, a Workshop on the Application of Standards for Learning Outcomes Accreditation of the Credit Bank of the OUC was held in Beijing. At the workshop the experience in formulating the accreditation standards was summarized , and the standard accreditation models were further identified , including "Course sharing and mutual credit recognition", "Dual-certificate integration" and the "Construction of a lifelong learning pathway”.
On 27 August, 2014, the 1st “Municipal Level Education and ICT Competency Training” for teachers from secondary vocational schools in Wuhan was concluded. The training lasted 7 days, and nearly 200 teachers from 35 secondary vocational schools in Wuhan participated in the training.
To further promote noble morality, promote morality building, and encourage the majority of young teachers to have a heartfelt dedication to their teaching position, Henan Radio and TV University (Henan RTVU) held a morality speech contest on August 28, 2014.
According to the statement "Decision of the General Office of China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) and the General Office of the Ministry of Education (MOE) on Granting Xu Jiacheng and 200 Other Teachers with Excellent Teacher of Education for the Disabled by the Bank of Communication" (CDPF Office Issuance [2014] No. 42), Ping Fan, Vice President of the OUC Tianjin School for the Disabled (hereinafter referred to “Tianjin School”) received the 2014 "Excellent Teacher of Education for the Disabled Granted by the Bank of Communication".
This year marks the 30th Teachers’ Day in China. It also happens to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the Radio and TV Universities (RTVUs). On this special day, the Party Committee of The Open University of China (OUC) randomly interviewed dozens of teachers, students and staff at the Wukesong, Fuxingmen and Weigongcun Campuses. The interviewees looked back on unforgettable moments, using genuine words to express their sincere thanks to the OUC and its teachers.
“For ordinary teachers, although we don't control the destiny of the Open University of China (OUC), we can try our best to march towards our dream of the OUC in our heart. In the process, we can play a valuable role as teachers of the OUC, feeling a sense of self-satisfaction, and undertake the responsibility of the OUC in the name of the teachers!”
From analyzing the scale, age profile, occupational composition, regional distribution and post level of the learners in the Open University of China (OUC), it can be seen that the OUC is a mega-university with millions of learners, a university targeting the general population and embedded in society. The mission of the OUC is great, as well as formidable, for it bears on its shoulders the significant social responsibility of improving the quality of a wide range of workers, boosting the mass higher education and fairness in education and promoting the construction of a lifelong learning society for all people, and it is in this that lies the important difference between the OUC and the regular institutions of higher education, which focus on elite education.
From the 18th to the 23rd of August of 2014, MOE Research & Training Centre for Community Education held the second “Lifelong Learning Lawmaking and Legal System Research Senior Training Class” at Lanzhou city of Gansu Province. The class aimed to promote progress in nationwide legislation related to lifelong education, encouraging more cities to join in establishing their own programmes of lifelong education as soon as possible, so as to provide practical legal protection for the lifelong learning of citizens in our country, and to promote the development of lifelong education.