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The Second meeting of Dean Joint Committee of China-Foreign Cooperative Education Institution was h
Source: Release:2015-05-25 10:52:17 Writer: Hits:

  The 2nd Meeting of Deans’ Association of Sino-Foreign Cooperation was hosted by China Education Association for International Exchange and Dean Joint Committee of Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education, undertaken by ICARE in West 5 building on May 19th 2015. More than 60 domestic person in charge of Sino-Foreign cooperative education institutions participated in the meeting. Participants had a discussion about issues related to development of Sino-Foreign cooperative institutions and quality assurance.

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  Deans’ Association of Sino-Foreign Cooperation was established in August 2014. It is under the guidance of the Ministry of Education International Cooperation and Exchange Division, initiated by 10 organizations including Surrey International Institute at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy at Huazhong University of Science & Technology and etc. It is composed by deans or vice deans of Sino-foreign cooperative institutes, aims to promote the healthy development of higher education.

  In recent years, the internationalization of education has become an inevitable trend of governments and universities. There are more than 2,000 Sino-Foreign cooperative education institutions and projects have been approved by government. The number of students reaches 550,000 , graduates reaches 1500,000. As an important part of higher education, Sino-Foreign cooperative education has a growing recognition of government, schools and society. How to protect the quality of Sino-Foreign cooperative education and to achieve sustainable development has become a closely watched issue.

  At the meeting, Chinese dean HUANG Shuhong made a report of education quality, shared his 5 years’ experience in joint education. HUANG Shuhong said that there are two most important points of quality guarantee: one is internal security mechanism, which means strict control in admission, curriculum construction and other aspects. The other point is to build a model of cooperation to introduce advanced educational resources. Prof. Feng Xiao, Dean of Sino-German College Applied Sciences of Tongji University pointed out that the key to quality guarantee is to design training process according to professional orientation, establish training features and build a professional team. Vice director He Pei from China Education Association for International Exchange Foreign Educational Quality Assurance Center introduced quality accreditation system of Sino-foreign Cooperative Institutions and international cooperation direction of quality assurance. Vice dean Meng Tao from Surrey International Institute at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics talked about the important role of perfect quality accreditation system for quality assurance.

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  In the afternoon of the venue forum, participants had an in-depth interaction and exchanges on the topics of talent cultivation; informationization oonstruction&quality Assurance of Sino-Foreign cooperative institutions.

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