China to Expand Modern Long-distance DducationChina will vigorously expand modern long-distance education by allowing more colleges of higher learning to become engaged in this regard and letting more students enroll through this program.Zhang Yaoxue, a senior official in charge of higher learning with the Ministry of Education, pledged that measures would be taken to ensure the quality of online teaching, the prime form of modern long-distance education, so that a life-time study system could be established in the country. According to the official, China began to try modern long- distance education in a group of selected colleges of higher learning in 1999. The experiment has now been spread to 45 colleges of higher learning in the country and by this autumn, the number of students enrolled for online education had increased to 400,000. |
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