On the morning of November 14, Mr. Steve Rhodes (President of NPTC Group of Colleges), Mr. Darren Horne (Director of China Business), and Mr. Huang Yahui (President of Centre of Excellence for British Vocational Education in China [CEBVEC]) visited SUCC. President Ye Yinzhong and Vice President Guo Hongtao met with the guests at the Yangpu Campus. Also in attendance were the heads of SUCC’s four Sino-UK cooperation programs, Engineering Cost, Construction Engineering Technology, Architectural Design, and Computer Application Technology. The meeting was chaired by Yu Limin, Director of the International Cooperation Division.

Mr. Ye Yinzhong introduced the overall condition of SUCC’s international exchange and cooperation work to the guests, which has gained various achievements and created a layout for the future. He highly praised the efforts and support of NPTC and CEBVEC in building the high-level Sino-UK programs of SUCC, and spoke highly of the tangible results achieved by the cooperation between the two sides. After reviewing the status of their cooperation, Mr. Steve Rhodes answered and shared questions proposed by the programs’ directors on the curriculum assessment criteria and the curriculum mapping reform.

To benchmark international standards for vocational education, the jointly constructed high-level Sino-UK programs are an important starting point for SUCC to run internationally, to deepen the reform of teaching models and to enhance the connotation construction. The meeting with the British side not only effectively solved puzzles concerning current program certification and implementation, but also laid the foundation for SUCC to establish Sino-foreign cooperative programs with a wider coverage. In the future, SUCC will more proactively explore and introduce advanced vocational education concepts and school-administration models, enhance the ability of teachers, train first-class international technical talent, and improve its benchmark of international standards for vocational education.