Shanghai Television University

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Shanghai Television University

Established:	1960
Type:	Public
President:	Professor Zhang Deming
Students:	80,000 [1]
Location:	Shanghai, China
Affiliations:	Asian Association of Open Universities
Website:	shtvu.org.cn

Shanghai Television University (上海电视大学) is an open university conducting distance education based on telecommunication, broadcasting & television, and computer and other technology based subject courses.

[edit] History

White 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.^[1] 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."^[2]

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.^[3]

[edit] References

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Television University Booming." Xinhua General Overseas News Service. Feb. 9, 1993.

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