Zhongxin Online Haihai News, October 27 (Zhou Zhuo'ao) 15 years of dedication to the far, forge ahead to open a new situation. In order to further summarize the achievements of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, share the experience of international education, and do a good job in the opening up of education in the new era, on the afternoon of October 15, the exchange meeting of Chinese and foreign cooperation in running schools in the new era of education and the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Sino-British International College of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology were held in the library of Fuxing Road Campus.
The conference invited Mao Dongmin, Director of the Department of International Education of the Ministry of Education, Chris Wood, Consul General of the United Kingdom in Shanghai, Li Yongzhi, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Education, Shen Weiqi, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Feng Hui, General Secretary of the Party Branch and Vice President of the Shanghai Municipal Education Evaluation Institute, Gill Caldicott, Director of the East China Region of the British Council, and Jiang Haishan, President of the Shanghai Education Association for International Exchange. Li Shuang, Secretary of the Party Committee of The Sydney School of Technology and Business of Shanghai University, and other guests attended the conference, including Wu Jianyong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the University, Ding Xiaodong, President of the University, Zhang Hua, Vice President, as well as leaders from the relevant functions (departments) and colleges of the School, the current members of the Joint Management Committee of Sino-British International College, the members of the leadership team of the College, the representatives of alumni and representatives of teachers and students. The conference was presided over by Cai Yonglian, Vice President and Dean of Sino-British International College.
Wu Jianyong first delivered a welcome speech, expressing his heartfelt thanks to the Ministry of Education and the Municipal Education Commission for their long-term guidance and concern for the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, and expressing sincere thanks to people from all walks of life who have always supported and cared about the development of Sino-British International College. He pointed out that in the fifteen years since the establishment of China-UK International College, it has implemented the fundamental task of Lide Shuren, learned from the international advanced educational concepts, and cultivated a large number of outstanding talents with family and country feelings, international vision, professional quality, innovation ability and cross-cultural communication ability. The solid and steady pace of development and gratifying achievements of Sino-British International College have been widely praised by all sectors of society and have become a shining business card for the school and even Shanghai education to open to the outside world. It is hoped that Sino-British International College will take the 15th anniversary of its establishment as an opportunity to implement the new requirements of higher education in the new era, base itself on Shanghai and go to the world, strive to create a new atmosphere, show new deeds and create new brilliance.
In his speech, Mao Dongmin expressed his heartfelt congratulations to Sino-British International College for its fruitful achievements in running the school in the past 15 years. She said that the Sino-British International College has set an example in carrying out the one-to-many cooperation model of Chinese and British universities, which has become a beautiful landscape in the educational cooperation between China and the UNITED Kingdom. The Department of International Affairs of the Ministry of Education will continue to care about and support the development of the College. The current global pandemic of the new crown pneumonia epidemic is a big test for the opening up of education to the outside world, and it is hoped that the Sino-foreign cooperative school-running institutions represented by the Sino-British International College will actively seek new opportunities in the crisis, open a new situation in the changing situation, strive to improve the quality of international education cooperation and exchanges, build a cooperation platform for People-to-people exchanges between China and foreign countries, enrich the mechanism of people-to-people exchanges between China and foreign countries, attract more foreign high-quality educational resources, play an exemplary and leading role in the overall development of China's higher education, and make greater contributions to promoting the opening up of China's higher education.
Laura Bishop, Executive Dean of the College, introduced the strategic development plan of the College, saying that the Sino-British International College was jointly founded by the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and 9 British partner universities in 2006, and the unique cooperative education model is the characteristics and foundation of the School. The College has always insisted on imparting academic knowledge and constantly cultivating students' critical thinking and communication skills, and the College will continue to work with the University to build the College into an outstanding international academic hall.
An award ceremony was held at the conference site. Mao Dongmin and Wu Jianyong jointly presented the "Best Partner Award" to the representatives of 9 British partner universities, and Li Yongzhi and Ding Xiaodong jointly presented the "15th Anniversary Special Commemorative Award" to the representatives of the Northern Universities Association and the 15-year-old faculty and staff of the College.
Lee Henderson, head of the business department of Sino-British International College, student representative Liu Xinyi and Alumni Association President Li Bo spoke in turn, they combined their personal experience and insights, in simple and unpretentious language, from different angles to look back on the development journey of the college, told the story of forging ahead with the college and growing together, showed the college's "responsible leadership", "entrepreneurship and innovation" and "cultural empathy" three major education concepts, expressed their deep blessings and gratitude to the college.
Li Shuang and Shen Weiqi made exchange speeches. They congratulated Sino-British International College on its achievements and contributions. It is hoped that colleagues of Sino-foreign cooperatively-run schools will work closely together to promote the high-level, efficient and high-quality development of Sino-foreign cooperative schools in the new era; make full use of high-quality resources at home and abroad, provide teachers and students with rich teaching resources and a broad international exchange platform, and take on the new mission of the new era with a more proactive attitude.
Chris Wood said in his speech that education is an important carrier of people-to-people exchanges and plays an active role in people-to-people exchanges, and universities in China and the UK learn from each other through international cooperation and benefit each other. The success of the Sino-British International College's school-running model stems not only from its own development potential, but also from the huge energy generated by Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, which can unite all parties to face difficulties and obstacles together and realize the great development vision together.
In his speech, Li Yongzhi pointed out that this year marks the centenary of the founding of the party, the year of the intersection of two centuries of history, and the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan. The opening up of education in the new era is an important part of China's reform and opening up, and Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, as an important form of international cooperation and exchange in education, will certainly play a positive role in promoting the opening up of education to the outside world. Sino-British International College has accumulated rich experience in broadening the way of talent training, introducing high-quality educational resources, and promoting the reform and development of education, hoping that the college will continue to summarize the reform ideas and innovative talent training models in the process of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, further explore the school-running system and the law of international talent training, always adhere to the principle of building people with virtue, ensure the direction of socialist schooling, in order to promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of international education, and strive to promote high-quality connotative development, and also through continuously enhancing the mutual learning of civilizations between China and the United Kingdom. Promote high-level opening up.
Ding Xiaodong pointed out in his speech that the cultural context of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology began with Hujiang University and the German Medical Engineering School, and since its establishment in 1906, it has been deeply branded with internationalization. The school has long been committed to improving the quality of engineering education and exploring diversified school-running models with internationalization, and is one of the earliest universities in China to open international cooperation in running schools. As a Sino-foreign cooperative educational institution established by the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in a systematic, large-scale and intensive manner to introduce the high-quality educational resources of the 9 first-class universities of the British Northern University Federation, Sino-British International College has become a dazzling "business card" for the internationalization of school education. In the future, China-UK International College should always adhere to the party's overall leadership, explore the characteristic ways of cultivating people with virtue in the context of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, bravely become the "forerunner" and "vanguard" of education internationalization reform and innovation, further play the role of international education demonstration, and play a greater role in the construction of high-level universities in schools.
Also present at the conference were guests from the International Exchange Office of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Education, the British Consulate General in Shanghai, the Shanghai Education Association, the British Council for Cultural Education, the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the University of Northern Universities, the University of Bradford, the University of Huddersfield, the University of Leeds, the University of Leeds Beckett, the University of Liverpool John Moore, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Salford, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Sheffield Hallam. (End)
Editor: Zhou Zhuo'ao