Chinese universities must run opinion polls among faculty and students before issuing major policies, according to the country¡¯s Ministry of Education as part of a raft of directives to make institutions more open.
Every institution will have to set up a press office ¨C which is standard practice in UK universities ¨C according to state-run news agency?Xinhua, to engage in ¡°public opinion supervision¡± of university related news. ?
The ministry¡¯s , released yesterday, explained that new university press offices should carry out media training to ¡°improve university leaders¡¯ media literacy¡±.
University leaders were also told to take responsibility for the ¡°authenticity¡± of university news, and to publish ¡°timely¡± information during an emergency.
It also calls on universities to give more publicity to top students and teachers.?
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