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focuses: (1) Improvement of Academic Quality, (2) Improvement of Student

Participation , and (3) Improvement of Internal Management. As implementing
units, UPBJJs have the following main tasks and functions: ·

Academic Quality Improvement

1} Managing Learning Materials and Supporting Materials

The main tasks and functions of UPBJJs include management of the

distribution of learning materials and other supporting materials, from prediction
of demands for each semester based on trend of number of students to

submission of revenues the sales of learning materials and other supporting
materials. UPBJJs are responsible for providing learning materials and other

supporting materials to be sold and distributed to the students. The learning
materials and other supporting materials managed by UPBJJs include printed

learning materials (such as main textbooks, supplementary books, practice
manuals, and references) and non-printed materials (include audio and video

recordings, computer-assisted learning materials in diskettes, COs, or
audiographic).

UPBJJs use computers to maintain the accuracy of data of the learning
materials and their supporting materials, and also its financial administration.

They make sales reports of learning materials and other supporting materials
each month. UT Head Office checks the accuracy of the reports by keeping

records of materials each year. With regard to facilities, a handful of UPBJJs are
still without adequate storeroom. From time to time, UT strives to perfect the

storeroom for learning materials and other supporting materials.

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