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84 OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATON IN ASIA
Good Practices from AAOU Members

• Organization and Management • Organizational Structure. In the past,
System for Correspondence Education. a large number of regular institutions
In China, there are two main types of higher learning in China were
of correspondence education. engaged in correspondence education,
One is independent institutions of reaching a height of 635 in 1998. Two
correspondence education approved organizational forms of correspondence
by the educational administrative education gradually came into being
authorities. Such institutions are small in based on the existing educational
number and have little influence. In 1986, resources of regular institutions of
there were seven such institutions, but higher learning. One is correspondence
this number dropped to two in 2002. The colleges and departments (divisions)
other type is correspondence colleges set up by institutions of higher learning
or departments set up by institutions that are responsible for the organization
of higher learning, which are a major and management of correspondence
provider of correspondence education in education (see Figure 2). The other is
China. The following section introduces correspondence departments set up one
the organizational management and level below under the administration of
operation mechanism of correspondence academic affairs office that is responsible
education in regular institutions of higher for the organization and management
learning. of correspondence teaching and accept
the unified management of the academic
affairs office. (see Figure 2).

The Open University of China (OUC)