On the afternoon of 28th July, the first 2023 SBC Management Council Meeting was held in Room 203, the SBC administration building. The Management Council members attended the meeting, including DING Xiaodong, President of USST, Chair of the SBC Management Council; CAI Yonglian, Vice President of USST, Dean of SBC; ZHANG Hua, Vice President of USST; GAN Yi, Director of Registry Department, USST; DIAO Jiewen, Director of Finance, USST; XU Lin, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Office, USST; Prof Jane Owen-Lynch, Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Huddersfield and Prof Laura Bishop, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Stuart Smith, Chief Executive of NCUK attended virtually. Prof Rupert Ward, Executive Dean of SBC; LI Yan, Party Secretary of SBC; Prof SHAN Yanguang, Vice Dean of SBC were in attendance. President DING Xiaodong chaired the meeting.
SBC Management Council Meeting
President DING warmly welcomed all attendants, and expressed his sincere gratitude to UK partner universities and NCUK for their endeavours and contributions. He stressed that SBC had just held the Graduation Ceremonies for 2023 graduates of LJMU, HUD, SHU and USST. Notably, the Classes of 2020, 2021 and 2022 were warmly invited to celebrate their graduation together since they had missed their own in-person ceremonies as fresh graduates due to the pandemic. The Sino-British College has fulfilled its promise to provide well-prepared ceremonies and express its care and best wishes for all the graduates present with no regrets.
President DING pointed out that since the last Management Council Meeting on 9th December last year, SBC has made remarkable achievements. The School of Languages, Education and Cultures was awarded CIOL Validated Programme for EAP module and the School of Business and Management was recognised as one of the EFMD members by European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Up till now, SBC has earned academic accreditations in business, engineering as well as English language education.
DING hoped that both sides would further build on their strengths and put forward suggestions for the next development of SBC as well as the cooperation expansion of UK partner universities and USST at all levels.
President DING delivered a speech
Rupert Ward made a work report and had a discussion about strategic plans, international accreditations, project cooperation, academic staff, course curricula, talent development, enrolment and employment and other issues with the other Management Council members. Rupert Ward expressed his gratitude to all the leadership and colleagues of both sides for their strong support and contributions. All members were committed to making SBC a better institute of international education.
Rupert Ward made a work report
This Management Council Meeting clarified the direction and strategies for the future development of SBC. SBC will take this conference as an opportunity to further improve its international education, talent development modes, social recognition and contribute itself to USST’s construction of being a first-class university of science and engineering with distinctive features.
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