On the afternoon of 26th July, the first 2024 SBC Management Council Meeting was held in Room 203, the SBC administration building. The Management Council members attended the meeting, including Prof DING Xiaodong, President of USST, Chair of the SBC Management Council, Prof Robert Anthony Cryan, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, Dr CAI Yonglian, Vice President of USST, Dean of SBC, Prof Laura Bishop, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, GAN Yi, Director of Registry Department of USST, DIAO Jiewen, Director of Finance of USST, LI Yan, Party Secretary of SBC and XU Lin, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Office of USST. Dr Malcolm Butler, Vice-President of the University of Sheffield, Prof Helen Scott, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University and Stuart Smith, Chief Executive of NCUK attended virtually. Prof Rupert Ward, Executive Dean of SBC, Prof SHAN Yanguang, Vice Dean of SBC, Dr CAI Hui, Deputy Party Secretary and Associate Dean of SBC attended the meeting. President DING Xiaodong chaired the meeting.
SBC Management Council Meeting
President DING pointed out that since the last Management Council Meeting held on 8th December last year, SBC has made smooth progress in all aspects and made remarkable achievements. The College has reformed the policies for free entry students this year in response to the intensifying competition for college enrolment among high schools. It turns out that the structure of freshers has been continuously optimized and their quality has improved then before, which fully reflects the recognition of students and their parents for international education and talent development provided by SBC. In the past six months, the College actively carried out external cooperation and exchanges in cooperative education, high-level projects, quality accreditations, school visits for educators, student exchanges, and international summer school and more with its partner universities. These measures have enhanced the mutual trust between both sides and laid the foundation for further cooperation.
President DING said that all the achievements SBC has made are impossible without the great support from its UK partner universities and hoped that both sides will further build on their strengths and put forward suggestions for the next development of SBC as well as the cooperation expansion of partner universities and USST at all levels.
President DING Xiaodong delivered a speech
Prof Rupert Ward made a work report and all Management Council members had a discussion about strategic plans, educational quality, international recruitment, free entry programme, student academic development and other issues. He expressed his gratitude to all the leadership and colleagues of both sides for their strong support and contributions and said SBC will promote the high-quality development of internationalisation by further strengthening the cooperation and actively carrying out student and lecturer exchanges, joint scientific research, educator training.
Prof Rupert Ward made a work report
The members unanimously affirmed the achievements and progress of SBC in the first half of 2024, highly praised the college's reform of free entry enrolment process and admission standards, active steps of SBC students’ visits to the UK and UK students to China, a high-level academic research platform building and other specific practices and remarkable results, and put forward hopes and guiding opinions on the future steps of the College.
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 and make the best of its unique mode of 1 to N Consortium model.
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