Re-elected as One of the “Top 50 Influential Vocational Colleges in Asia Pacific 2020 and Titled as One of the “Top 50 National Vocational Colleges in Integration of Industry and Education 2020” for the First Time


Date:2020-11-24 Views: 2370


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From November 13th to 15th, 2020 Education Forum for Asia Annual Conference themed “Light up the Future with the Light of Education" was held in Chengdu. At the forum, more than 800 education experts from more than 30 countries and regions had an academic feast with experience exchange and wisdom sharing around the development of education in the post-pandemic era. Vice President Guo Hongtao and relevant personnel from the International Exchange Office and the Academic Affairs Office of our college were invited to attend the conference.

 

Education Forum for Asia was founded in December 2003 and has held 17 annual educational conferences. Domestic and foreign dignitaries, Nobel Prize winners, leaders in education, science and technology, culture, innovation and entrepreneurship, domestic and foreign education delegations, ambassadors, as well as representatives from colleges and universities, international organizations, enterprises and media were invited to this conference in form of online and offline participation to share experience and wisdom, discuss the future development of education, and draw a blueprint for the future of global education.

 

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Based on the practice of previous years, the list of the "Top 50 Influential Vocational Colleges in Asia Pacific 2020” was officially released at Education Forum for Asia. In recent years, our college has been engaging in active exploration and practice in the fields of building national high-quality junior vocational colleges, serving “the Belt and Road” construction, deepening international education cooperation, setting up overseas branch schools, exporting curriculum standards, and disseminating Chinese culture, and thus been re-elected as one of the "Top 50 Influential Vocational Colleges in Asia Pacific".

 

In the meantime, the Organizing Committee of Education Forum for Asia held the appraisal and selection event of the “Top 50 National Vocational Colleges in Integration of Industry and Education 2020” for the first time this year, aiming to recognize vocational colleges that have made outstanding achievements and important contributions and provided us with learning experience in deepening industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation in vocational education. All the time, by actively focusing on the new requirements for talent training posed by industrial transformation, technological upgrading, as well as new technologies, new industries, new modals and new models, our college has been vigorously exploring diversified and effective forms of cooperation in running schools to expand the depth and breadth of school-enterprise cooperation, and continuously enhancing the fitness with the job requirements of industrial enterprises. In addition, through the in-depth cooperation with enterprises such as joint establishment of majors and disciplines, sharing of bases, joint development of courses, joint construction of teaching materials, joint participation in the teaching process, joint training of teachers, joint involvement in scientific research and development, our college has been engaging in international education cooperation and personnel training with the integration of industry and education as the core mechanism, continuously improving the pertinence of talent training, improving the connotation of specialties and the quality of talent training, creating an upgraded version of school-enterprise cooperation, and cultivate international talents with international vision and standards that are adapted to “the Belt and Road" construction. Finally after the preliminary evaluation and re-evaluation by the selection committee, Shanghai Urban Construction Vocational College was successfully selected.

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On the afternoon of November 14th, Vice President Guo Hongtao was invited to attend the high-level dialogue themed enhancing international cooperation and promoting the high-quality development of vocational colleges. During the dialogue, she shared with the guests the development history of our college as the largest vocational college in Shanghai from the perspective of exploration and practice in the fields of international exchanges and cooperation and "double first-class" construction. In recent years, our college has been making active efforts in these respects, represented by the service for the “the Belt and Road”, the set-up of “Advanced Seminar for International Talents in Infrastructure” and “Luban School”, the establishment of overseas branch schools, the recruitment of international students, the launch of cooperation in vocational education with African countries, the initiative to found Sino-UK Vocational Education Cooperation and Development Committee, the implementation of professional certification and professional training for teachers in line with international standards, the cooperation with German BAU, GIZ and other companies, in-depth cooperation in line with the German construction industry standards, the implementation of Sino-US and Sino-Canada cooperative education projects, the cooperation with Japanese colleges in the elderly care and management, and the cooperation with the US. UNLV in the field of hotel management, etc. Especially during the pandemic, through the establishment of Internet + international education cloud platform, the implementation of online teaching for international students, the development of basic Chinese courses, and the provision of one-month online Chinese courses for Chinese learning starters in Thailand, our college was recognized and praised by the Ministry of Education of Thailand and Bangkok Vocational Education Center.

 

In the future, our college will further integrate the new requirements of the "Double High" plan for the internationalization of higher vocational colleges, pay equal emphasis on introduction, cultivation and construction, and build to improve the college's ability to run school internationally; create innovative cooperation models and steadily promote the cultivation of internationalized teachers and talents; give full play to our own advantages and characteristics, and fully implement  “the Belt and Road” education initiative. In the process of building a high-quality college and "double first-class", we will sum up our experience, identify our distinctive features, and develop internationally universal specialty standards and curriculum systems by combining the introduction of international standards with the development of international standards with Chinese characteristics. In the meantime, relying on overseas branch schools, we will adopt an all-inclusive approach to attach equal importance to both Chinese and foreign education, strive to achieve a benign interaction between "bringing in" and "going out", enhance the radiation power of China's vocational education, and provide Chinese solutions for and contribute China's wisdom to the development of vocational education in the world.