ZJIET co-sponsored 2023 Seminar on High Quality Development of Higher Vocational Education in the New Era

Publisher:国际交流与合作Update:2023-09-15Views:10

Recently, the 2023 Seminar on High Quality Development of Higher Vocational Education in the New Erajointly hosted by ZJIET and UK NARIC opened in Changsha, Hunan Province. Dr. Clou Bai-yun chief adviser of UK NARIC, and vice chair of the UNESCO Convention on the Global Recognition of Higher Education, Song Hansi, Chair of the EducationPlus International Vocational Education Conference and Exhibition organizing committee, Wang Xiaojing, director of personnel training and vocational skill education of Commerce and Trade Dept of British Embassy in China, Mr. Giovanni Collison, Chair of Skillman and over 200 representatives of more than 40 colleges and universities, enterprises and teachers from the UK, Italy and China attended the meeting. ZJIET President Chen Dequan took part in the meeting and delivered a guest speech. Also present at the meeting were the leading officials of ZJIET International Exchanges and Cooperation Center and teacher representatives.


        In his speech, President Chen pointed out that ZJIET is committed to raising the vocational education quality and improving the teaching contents to satisfy public needs. It has become a strategic project of China's all-round construction of socialism modernization country and a basic project for building a modern economic system to enhance the market adaptability of vocational education, making it appealing to the society and contributing a higher share of strength to social development. It is our hope that through this seminar, the Chinese and foreign experts can sufficiently sum up the previous experiences and jointly explore a new path of high-quality vocational education development, so as to better serve the new trend of the international social and economic development. 


In the keynote reports, leaders of six Chinese colleges and universities, namely Shandong Vocational University of Foreign Affairs, Beijing College of Finance and Commerce, Jiangsu Food & Pharmaceutical Science College, Guangxi Vocational College of Water Resources and Electric Power, Yueyang Vocational and Technical College, Guangxi International Business Vocational College, made thematic sharing on the high-quality development of vocational education. Five international experts from the UK NARIC delivered academic reports and special speeches on the assessment and accreditation of international professional standards.


The meeting also saw a series of activities, including the signing of the overseas Bridge Program for a joint college; the signing of strategic cooperation memorandum with the UK NARIC; the release of the board of committee work and plan. In the next step, ZJIET will take this meeting as an opportunity to adapt to the trend of higher education internationalization, attach more attention to the notion of internationalized education, and continue to rely on the dual-engine drive of bringing in and going global to promote the exchange and cooperation with international vocational education organizations and universities at home and abroad and to continuously improve its internationalized capacity in education.