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Figure 1
The OUC Educational Organization System
• Management System and Operation • Regular institutions of higher learning.
Mechanism. The OUC’s management After the founding of the PRC, regular
follows the same system of “overall institutions of higher learning became the
planning, classified operation, and first distance education entities engaged
management” that was put forward in the business of correspondence
during the period of radio and television education. After 1999, there were 68
universities. The OUC headquarters regular institutions of higher learning
are led and managed by the Ministry of involved in independent online degree
Education. The branches are subordinate education thanks to the implementation
to the leadership of responsible of “Modern Distance Education Project”.
education authorities at the same levels, This section focuses on the introduction
mainly relying on local RTVUs (schools of an organization and management
and study centres) for administrative system and operation mechanism for
support (e.g. human resources, financial correspondence education and online
support, and infrastructure projects). education run by regular institutions of
They accept the guidance of higher-level higher learning.
open universities in terms of teaching
and teaching management.
The Open University of China (OUC)
