w88 casino News Network (reporters Chen Ruobing, Wen Feng, photography, Yujun, Han Zixuan, contributed by the Scientific Research Office and the International Office)2021On September 17-18, 2019, as one of the important academic activities for the 70th anniversary of the founding of w88 casino, the Chinese and Foreign University Presidents Forum was grandly held. The forum includes domestic offline parts and international online parts. Presidents from nearly 50 universities at home and abroad participated in forum discussions offline or online, focusing on educational opening and educational cooperation in the new era, paying attention to educational innovation and development, and talking about global education governance.
9On the afternoon of March 18, an offline forum with the theme of "Education Achieves the Future: Openness, Cooperation, Innovation, and Development" was grandly held in the lecture hall of the International Exchange Building. Principals, w88 casino leadership representatives, and teacher representatives from nearly 30 domestic universities discussed education plans and drew up a development blueprint. President Xia Wenbin delivered a speech at the forum. Professor Lin Jianhua, deputy chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 13th National People's Congress and former president of Peking University, Professor Gu Hailiang, professor of liberal arts at Peking University, Professor Zhang Jun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Beijing Institute of Technology, and Professor Simone Buitendijk, president of the University of Leeds in the UK, delivered keynote speeches. The forum was chaired by Jiang Qingzhe, secretary of the w88 casino party committee.
On behalf of the w88 casino, President Xia Wenbin expressed a warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to the leaders and guests who participated in the forum, and elaborated on the current development situation of higher education in our country and the expectations and requirements of the party and the country for higher education. He pointed out that in order to achieve the goal of high-quality development, my country's higher education needs to build a modern governance system that matches the new development pattern and clarify the focus and direction of efforts to improve governance capabilities. In this regard, he put forward five suggestions and goals, including "adhering to the overall leadership of the party and implementing the fundamental task of building moral education", "optimizing the talent training structure and improving the innovative service capabilities of colleges and universities", "seizing the opportunity of the era of informatization empowerment and deepening education and teaching reform and innovation", "expanding opening to the outside world and accelerating the formation of new advantages in international cooperation and competition", "improving system construction and continuously improving governance levels and capabilities". He said that as the first foreign w88 and finance university in New China, the University of International w88 and Economics has been committed to cultivating leading international talents and global governance talents. He expected that through this forum, he could listen to the opinions of the guests, strengthen exchanges, pool wisdom and efforts, and work together to build a higher education governance system that achieves high-quality development.
Professor Lin Jianhua expressed his heartfelt blessings to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the University of w88 and Economics. Focusing on the national attributes of universities, he elaborated on the history of the evolution and development of universities, the reasons for the emergence of the national attributes of universities in my country, and the competition and challenges currently faced by universities. He mentioned that the national attributes of universities mean that universities should serve the country and society, while the uncertainty and personal attributes of education mean that education should pay more attention to individual growth. He said that in the current increasingly fierce global competition, in order to win future competition, universities must pay attention to the national attributes of universities and the personal attributes of education, so as to build a good governance system, improve the inherent competitiveness of academics, and then cultivate the talents needed in the new era.
Professor Gu Hailiang pointed out that we should combine the basic principles of Marxism with China’s practice, combine General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “Three Questions” on education with the reality of universities, and make the central government’s talent training plan concrete. He emphasized that college education cannot be empty slogans or formalistic. He cited examples of how w88 casino has used high-quality international resources and combined with practical conditions to cultivate countless economic talents who have made significant contributions to national development. He believes that the history of talent training at the University of International w88 is a high-quality answer to General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “three questions”. He said that the University of International w88 has provided satisfactory answers to the "Three Questions" in the past few years and expected that the University of International w88 will perform even more brilliantly in the future.
Professor Zhang Jun introduced the three educational concepts of smart education, five-dimensional education and BIT action, focusing on three aspects: educational reform, innovative concepts, and exploration and practice. He introduced the basic connotation of smart education and pointed out that "five-dimensional education", which is mainly composed of three dimensions of space, one dimension of time and one dimension of knowledge, is the framework of smart education. "Five-dimensional education" makes education more flexible and diverse. He also shared BIT’s plans under the guidance of smart education concepts and BIT’s distinctive educational concepts, training models, training systems and educational goals.
Professor Simone Buitendijk said in a video speech that the current international situation is complex and the world situation is changing rapidly. The era urgently needs a new generation of leadership talents. At the same time, a single discipline cannot dominate the future, which requires the cultivation of comprehensive talents. Therefore, collaboration and exchanges between universities are very necessary. She introduced that the University of Leeds and the University of International w88 have a long history of cooperation, and she looks forward to meeting and communicating with more principals of schools in the future to promote mutual development and progress.
After the keynote speech, two sub-forums with the themes of "Deepening Research on the Opening-up of Higher Education" and "Innovative Development of Higher Education Modernization" started a heated discussion. Based on the problems and thoughts encountered in the actual work of the w88 casino, the principals analyzed educational cases and shared educational concepts. They once again focused on the theme of this forum and had a fruitful discussion.
The online international forum kicked off on the afternoon of September 17th. Principals and experts from 14 countries gathered online to conduct heated discussions, exchange experiences and share results around the theme of "Global Higher Education Governance and Cooperation".
President Xia Wenbin delivered a keynote speech entitled "A New Picture of Higher Education in the Transformation of the Global Governance System". President Xia analyzed the main issues facing the development of contemporary universities from three perspectives: higher education governance issues in the context of the intelligent revolution, higher education supply-side structural reform issues, and higher education international cooperation issues. President Xia said that he hopes to use this conference to discuss with experts and scholars from various countries how to deal with uncertainties in the field of higher education in the transformation of the global governance system, jointly build a more open, modern, and diverse new pattern of global higher education governance, and jointly describe a new picture of global higher education in the future.
Representatives of participating universities gave keynote speeches. Professor Adam Shoemaker, President of Victoria University in Australia, delivered a keynote speech on "Future University and the Flipped Campus Model"; Professor Andreas Zehetner, Vice-President of the University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria, Austria, elaborated on "the three major impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic on international higher education"; Professor Li Jianle, representative of the president of Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, introduced the long history of cooperation between the two schools and looked forward to broader cooperation prospects in the future; Achim, President of the European Economic Institute Professor Wambach shared the experience of "International Science and Technology Cooperation between China and Germany"; Professor Nino Okribelashvili, Vice-President of Tbilisi State University in Georgia, elaborated on "Understanding of the Third Mission of Universities in the Post-Epidemic Era"; Professor Dolores O'Riordan, Vice-President of University College Dublin in Ireland, shared the experience of "Transnational Education Approaches of University College Dublin - Taking the Establishment of the International Joint College in China as an Example"; Professor Marina Timoteo, a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Bologna, Italy, analyzed "Global Higher Education and New Skills"; Hideo, President of Tokyo Keizai University, Japan Professor Okamoto discussed the possibility of "global online seminars in the 'post-epidemic era'"; Professor Yutaka Otsuka, President of Fukuyama University in Japan, elaborated on "Thinking about the university education model in the post-epidemic era"; Professor Anar Bazarovna, First Vice President of Astana International University in Kazakhstan, shared "Research on the promotion of educational innovation and related challenge indicators due to the epidemic"; Professor Song Seok-yeon, President of Jeju National University in South Korea, elaborated on "Looking forward to the Korean higher education system in the post-epidemic era"; Baykov, Vice President of Moscow State University of International Relations, Russia Professor Andrey shared "Challenges faced by dual degree programs under the COVID-19 epidemic"; Gen. Surasit Thanadtang, Director of the National Research Institute of Thailand, delivered a speech titled "China-Thailand International Scientific Cooperation in the Post-Epidemic Era".
Vice President Hong Junjie presided over the forum and expressed his sincere gratitude to guests from all over the world for their thoughts and insights. He fully affirmed the importance of the forum, which not only promoted understanding and cooperation among participating universities, but also provided many new ideas and inspirations for the future development of global higher education. In the future, universities will be more diverse, outstanding and innovative.
The Forum of Presidents of Chinese and Foreign Universities is one of the series of activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of w88 casino. As an important platform for global university presidents to pay attention to and share educational concepts, this forum fully demonstrates w88 casino's cooperative and open teaching philosophy, effectively promotes cooperation among domestic and foreign universities in collaboratively cultivating innovative talents, and is of great significance to building a new era of university governance system.
