A delegation from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) visited CIT on April 10 to explore new collaborative opportunities. The 4-person delegation was composed of Prof. James Miller, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Marcus Ross, Vice-Principal (Planning and Recruitment), Prof. Gordon Morison, Dean of CEPS, and Ms. Jun Chen, Regional Director (East & South-East Asia). CIT’s Party Committee Secretary Song Lijun and Vice President Zhang Bangcheng attended the related events.
Sino-British Cooperative Education Program Management Committee held a meeting in the second conference room of the West Lake Campus in the morning.
Prof. Song Lijun extended a warm welcome to the delegation on behalf of all the teachers and students of our university. He reviewed the sixteen-year cooperation between the two universities, affirmed the achievements made in talent cultivation, teacher and student exchanges, scientific research cooperation, and cultural exchanges. He also stated that the two universities will continue to deepen cooperation in project collaboration, teaching quality improvement, scientific and technological innovation, and cultural exchange to forge a new chapter in international cooperation. Principal and Vice-Chancellor James Miller expressed his sincere gratitude for our university’s warm welcome, praised the fruitful cooperation between the two universities in student education, academic collaboration, and international development, and expressed his full support of our university’s future cooperation plan. He stated that UWS will do its utmost to promote the new round of cooperation and make the friendship between the two universities even stronger on the new journey. Vice President Zhang Bangcheng and Vice-Principal Marcus Ross introduced their respective universities’ achievements in teaching, research, and international exchange.
The meeting was chaired by Prof. Su Xiaoping, Division Chief of the Division of International Relations, who provided an overview of the cooperative education program, the current status of teaching operations, and revisions to the new round of talent development programs. Both parties engaged in in-depth discussions on topics, including a faculty research exchange agreement, a five-year student exchange articulation agreement, curriculum enhancement for the cooperative program, and collaboration in computer science. A preliminary consensus was reached on these initiatives.
In the afternoon, the delegation visited CIT’s Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory the Changbai Mountain History and Culture and VR Technology Reconstruction, the Advanced Manufacturing Experimental Base, and the Structural Laboratory. They also attended the Promotion Meeting of the Study Abroad Program where Vice President Prof. Zhang Bangcheng and Principal James Miller delivered speeches respectively. Ms. Chen Jun provided a detailed overview of the degree program and addressed student inquiries
