European Credit Transfer System and Its Enlightenments for "Beijing School"

The first "Beijing School" was established in Beihang University in December 2013. Students from other universities in Beijing can be accepted to long visiting study or minor study by relying on the professional discipline and teaching conditions in Beihang University. Credit transfer and recognition are very important for students transfer and resources sharing because credits are tools and instruments to measure learning quantity. In this respect, we should learn from European Credit Transfer System. It contains three key documents which are information packets, learning agreements and achievements, and also contains relevant supporting measures. Its outstanding characteristics can be summarized as a complete organization, normative law, transparency among institutions, flexible credit transfer, quality guarantee measures. All of this is of great significance for the "Beijing school". The paper offers proposals to the credit recognition of "Beijing School":perfecting organization, strengthening policy and legislation, formulating scientific and standard transformation mechanism, setting up information service support system and establishing effective quality assurance system.