Universities Revise Courses to Align with National Needs

1 week, 4 days ago

40 new vocational majors introduced

College students interact with a soccer robot during a science fair at Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in October. YANG BO/CHINA NEWS SERVICE China has added 40 new majors to its vocational education directory, marking the largest expansion since the latest revision in 2021, according to the Ministry of Education. The new additions include three secondary vocational majors, 20 …

China Vocational Majors Introduced

1 week, 4 days ago

40 new vocational majors introduced

China Daily

College students interact with a soccer robot during a science fair at Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in October. YANG BO/CHINA NEWS SERVICE China has added 40 new majors to its vocational education directory, marking the largest expansion since the latest revision in 2021, according to the Ministry of Education. The new additions include three secondary vocational majors, 20 …

China Vocational Education Majors

2 months ago

CUC Revamps Courses to Align with National Needs

China Daily

Chinese universities are undergoing significant restructuring to better reflect the nation's needs and stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. The key to determining whether an academic program should be restructured or discontinued lies in its contribution to national strategies and its relevance to solving real-world problems. The university's School of Science underwent a major transformation, focusing on data science …

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2 months ago

China to Launch Massive Expansion of Doctoral Programs in Science, Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine

China Daily

China is planning to strengthen its development of doctoral programs in science, engineering, agriculture and medicine. The country will increase the proportion of professional doctoral programs, boost the construction of disciplines related to key fields, step up the integration of various disciplines, and explore new paths for international exchange and cooperation.

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2 months ago

China to advance doctoral programs in science, engineering, agriculture, medicine

China Daily

BEIJING -- China has announced plans to strengthen its development of doctoral programs in the science, engineering, agriculture and medical science disciplines. The development of doctoral programs in basic and emerging disciplines and in interdisciplinary fields will also be boosted, according to a set of guidelines on deepening the comprehensive reform of doctoral education that were recently unveiled by the …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Training of top innovative talent goal of college courses reform

China Daily

The Ministry of Education effected major changes to undergraduate major courses in colleges and universities in 2023, with altogether 3,389 undergraduate majors being added, canceled and/or adjusted, as announced in March. A resolution passed by the central authorities in July said that China will promote the reform of colleges and universities by classification, establish a discipline setting adjustment mechanism and …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Training of top innovative talent goal of college courses reform

China Daily

The Ministry of Education effected major changes to undergraduate major courses in colleges and universities in 2023, with altogether 3,389 undergraduate majors being added, canceled and/or adjusted, as announced in March. A resolution passed by the central authorities in July said that China will promote the reform of colleges and universities by classification, establish a discipline setting adjustment mechanism and …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Xi'an Jiaotong University welcomes 2024’s freshers

China Daily

Last week, Xi'an Jiaotong University, located in Xi’an, Shaanxi province in Northwest China, welcomed over 6000 undergraduate students for the year 2024. This year’s welcoming initiatives at Xi'an Jiaotong University showcased several features including, the "Panda Special Train" journeyed from Sichuan province in Southwest China to Shaanxi, offering reliable transportation for the new arrivals. On August 23rd, train D1920 departed …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Demand for distance education spikes in UP, reveal UPRTOU records

Hindustan Times

After the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for distance education has surged, as evidenced by the enrolment records of Uttar Pradesh’s sole state open university—Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University in Prayagraj. In this academic year, which included admissions from July 2023 and January 2024, there were 41,885 new admissions across 126 different courses, bringing the total number …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Hainan's pilot zone campus kicks off hopeful autumn semester

China Daily

Students perform at the Orientation for the 2023 Autumn Semester at the Lingshui Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in South China's Hainan province on Oct 8. On Sunday, more than 1,200 students, teachers and guests attended the Orientation for the 2023 Autumn Semester at the Lingshui Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in South China's Hainan province. "In the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Graduates trigger debate over choice of university studies

China Daily

LU PING/CHINA DAILY Selecting a particular major no guarantee of landing a well-paid job After four years of studying Russian for a bachelor's degree at a university in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, and two years of postgraduate studies in journalism at a university in Russia, Ma Qi still hasn't found a suitable job. Zhang Xuefeng, founder of the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Freshmen-to-be weigh up their major options

China Daily

Teachers cheer on a student who is about to take the gaokao, or national college entrance exam, at Beijing Chenjinglun High School on Wednesday, the first day of the exam. JU HUANZONG/XINHUA Experts caution about blindly choosing 'trendy' disciplines as industries fluctuate As high school graduates begin to consider which universities and majors they should choose, experts have cautioned that …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Freshmen-to-be weigh up their major options

China Daily

Teachers cheer on a student who is about to take the gaokao, or national college entrance exam, at Beijing Chenjinglun High School on Wednesday, the first day of the exam. JU HUANZONG/XINHUA Experts caution about blindly choosing 'trendy' disciplines as industries fluctuate As high school graduates begin to consider which universities and majors they should choose, experts have cautioned that …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Universities to focus on tech, industry

China Daily

E-commerce majors at Zhejiang Gongshang University interact with their audience during a livestreaming session. XU JUNYONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Plan to add majors on frontier fields, eliminate outdated ones by 2025 China plans to adjust around 20 percent of its university majors by 2025, with majors focusing on new technologies and industries being established, while majors unfit for socioeconomic development will …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Top academic expects education sector to bounce back quickly

China Daily

The three years of the COVID-19 epidemic resulted in a major hit to the international education program at Beijing Jiaotong University's College of International Education, according to Liu Yanqing, the school's dean. However, she is confident that international students will soon return to the school's campus, and the number will return to pre-epidemic levels within two years. According to the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Overseas courses taken online to lose accreditation

China Daily

Chinese students attend the graduation ceremony at the Columbia University in New York. China will stop accrediting foreign diplomas and degrees obtained via online courses starting from the spring semester this year as major overseas study destinations have opened their borders, according to the Ministry of Education's Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange. However, as the pandemic situation in major …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Postgraduate education expanded in past decade

China Daily

China has not only educated more postgraduate students in the past decade than ever before, but has also improved the quality of teaching and research programs, training more capable graduates to better serve national development needs. Majors required to boost national economic and social development have also been created, including cyberspace security, integrated circuit science and engineering, and traditional Chinese …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Number of postgrads rises in last decade

China Daily

Examinees leave a venue of the postgraduate entrance exam at Xi'an University of Technology in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, Dec 26, 2021. China has not only educated more postgraduate students in the past decade, but has also improved the quality of teaching and research programs, training more capable graduates to better serve national development needs. According to the Ministry …

3 years, 2 months ago

OP Jindal Global University Launches 17 UG, PG Courses

News 18

OP Jindal Global University has launched 17 new undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes for the academic session beginning in 2022. The 17 new programmes include BA Human Rights, BA Gender Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, Public Policy, Sociology, Film and New Media, English, Spanish, BCom Capital Markets, Global BCom, BA/BSc Sustainable Development, BPH Bachelor of Public …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Zhejiang Pharmaceutical College to be upgraded

China Daily

Zhejiang Pharmaceutical College in Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province. Zhejiang Pharmaceutical College, a junior college located in Ningbo, will be upgraded into a public university enrolling undergraduates, after merging with the Donghai Science and Technology College of Zhejiang Ocean University in Zhoushan, according to a notice published on the official website of the Zhejiang provincial department of education. The newly …

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