China's Universities Keep a Watch on Foreign Teaching MaterialsAn exhibition of more than 2,700 overseas teaching materials in the original is held lately in Shanghai University. On display are teaching materials from some well-known universities such as Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge, covering social sciences, management and engineering sciences.The exhibition, sponsored by the China National Publication Import & Export Company (CNPIEC), is targeted to meet the needs of many Chinese institutions of higher learning. According to the organizers, many renowned universities in China, including Tsinghua University and Peking University, are currently looking for and studying the teaching materials used by their foreign counterparts in an effort to improve their textbooks and references. Shanghai is the fourth leg of the foreign teaching materials exhibition in China this winter. The foreign teaching materials on display received a great welcome from among the Chinese universities. "Our booths for foreign teaching materials in the International Book Fair held in Beijing in September received an extensive appreciation," Teng Chuanfu from the CNPIEC told reporters. Soon after the International Book Fair, the Ministry of Education initiated a seminar and invited 12 provosts from universities at home to have a discussion on the teaching materials. It is generally agreed that China's current teaching materials of home-compilation has lagged far behind the development of higher education itself. Introducing and using original editions of the teaching materials of famous foreign universities is undoubtedly a shortcut to narrow the gap between China's universities and those of the world first-rate. By PD Online staff Du Minghua |
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