Shanghai Open University
上海开放大学
Side gate (former main gate) of Shanghai Open University Guoshun Road Campus on Zhenfa Road
Former name
Shanghai TV University
TypePublic
Established1960
PresidentJiang Hong
Students>100,000 [1]
Location
Shanghai
,
 China
AffiliationsAsian Association of Open Universities
Websitewww.sou.edu.cn
Shanghai Open University
Simplified Chinese上海开放大学
Traditional Chinese上海開放大學

Shanghai Open University (Chinese: 上海开放大学), formerly known as Shanghai Television University (Chinese: 上海电视大学), is an open university conducting distance education based on telecommunication, broadcasting and television, and computer and other technology based subject courses.

On July 25, 2012, the university officially changed its name to Shanghai Open University, and now offers Associate and bachelor's degrees. Bachelor's degrees offered now include Public Safety Management, Mechanical Electrical Engineering, and Software Engineering. Admissions is open, though conferring of degrees is based on met requirements.[2]

History

The university was founded on 1960 as Shanghai TV University (SHTVU) "offering undergraduate education for adults."[3]

While reports that during its early years the university functioned "simply [to] keep[] unemployed workers busy," and its diplomas were only "equal in status to those of a two-year college." By the mid-1960s the university had enrolled over 50,000 students but graduated only 12,000.[4] Epstein regards this dysfunction as a typical example of policies in Chinese urban areas in the 1960s which "attempted to placate immediate political demands" but "proved to be counterproductive to long-term educational aims."[5]

According to the Xinhua General Overseas News Service, from 1991 to 1993 the university added eight economic courses to its curriculum including industrial and commercial business management, auditing, and finance.[6]

In 2003, student enrollment amounts to 100,000. By 2012 Shanghai TV University was renamed as Shanghai Open University with the approval of the Ministry of Education of China.[7]

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ Wenhui and Xinmin Media Group. 上海电大更名上海开放大学 首批设3个本科专业. 文新传媒, 25 July 2012, "上海电大更名上海开放大学 首批设3个本科专业". Archived from the original on 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2012-07-25.
  3. ↑ "History". Shanghai Open University. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  4. ↑ White, Lynn. Careers in Shanghai. University of California Press, 1978. pp. 31-33, cited in Irving Epstein, "Educational Television in the People's Republic of China: Some Preliminary Observations," Comparative Education Review, Vol. 26, No. 2. June 1982, pp. 286-291.
  5. ↑ Epstein, Irving. "Educational Television in the People's Republic of China: Some Preliminary Observations," Comparative Education Review, Vol. 26, No. 2. June 1982, pp. 286-291.
  6. ↑ "Television University Booming." Xinhua General Overseas News Service. February 9, 1993.
  7. ↑ "History". Shanghai Open University. Retrieved 2020-03-19.

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