At the Great Lecture Program for SHNU School of Environmental and Geographical Sciences held on November 17th, Ian Townend, fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), spoke for SHNU students with the title Using Resilience as a Coastal Management Tool. Townend briefed on the secure and sustainable global systematic framework and popularized the concepts of safe operation space brought up in 2009 by Rockströmby means of graphics and tables. Besides, he exemplified the restoration of Britis

SponsoredbyUNESCONationalCouncilandChinaMinistryofEducation,the2ndOnlineResearchProgramofTargetedPovertyAlleviation(LiftingPeopleoutofPoverty)openedonlineonAugust4th.ProfessorZhangMinxuanandhisProgramteam,togetherwithabout290teachersfrom16poverty-strickentownsfrom7provincesofChinaattendedtheprogramthroughinternetvideotalks.TheOpeningCeremonywasheldbyProfessorHuGuoyong,theViceDirectoroftheCenter.Heexpressedhisexpectationforthisresearchprogramandemphasizedtheraretrainingopportunityatthecrucialmome

On3p.m.,April9th(BeijingTime),representativesfromTanzanianMinistryofEducationdiscussedcooperativepossibilitiesofteachercooperationwithUNESCOTeacherEducationCenterlocatedatSHNU.Asthehostofthisconference,Dr.LiangXiaoyan,chiefeducationexpertsoftheWorldBank,introducedbothparties.Afterthat,theTanzanianofficialsbriefedonpre-careertrainingofmathteachersoftheircountry,andsodidProfessorZhangMinxuan,DirectorofTeacherEducationCenterlocatedatSHNU.Also,preliminaryideashavebeenprobedonwaystostrengthentraining

AlekseiKubyshkin,PresidentofPetrozavodskStateGlazunovConservatoireofRussia,visitedSHNUonDecember20thwithOlgaShmakova,theVicePresidentoftheConservatoireandViktorPortnoi,theDeanofDepartmentofPiano.Thevisitors,onbehalfoftheirconservatoire,signedacooperativeagreementwithSHNUPresidentZhuZiqiangforinterscholasticcooperation.ZhubriefedonthestrengthsofSHNUinmusicologyandfineartseducationandindicatedthatthisvisitactedasthelodestaroffuturecooperation,particularlyonthisveryoccasionthe10thanniversaryofcoope

TheVicePresidentfromJapanEhimeUniversityvisitedandexchangedwithSHNUforfurthercooperationonDecember19th.ThevisitorswerereceivedbySHNUVicePresidentJiangMingjun,Achievementsaboutstudentsexchangessincecooperativerelationswereestablishedhavebeenreviewed.Morepossibilitieshavebeenexploredtowardsexpandingcooperationin3+1programs(1yearofundergraduateeducationfollowedbythenextthreeyearsofmaster’sdegreeprograms)inmoreacademicdisciplines.Moreover,moreexpectationshavebeenplacedatteacher’scooperationprograms.

LinZaiyong,SHNUPartySecretary,visitedLexeyLubkov,PresidentofMoscowStatePedagogicalUniversity(MSPU)anddiscussedaboutthecommonissuesofmodernteachers’educationofChinaandRussiabeforetheyreachedaconsensusofinterscholasticcooperationandexchangesonNovember29th.AhistoryofSino-Russiancooperationwasreviewedattheconference,aswellaskeymomentsofhighereducationexchangesofbothnations.Foundedin1872,theMSPUisafamousteachers’universitythatoncevisitedbyRussianPresidentPutin.

ProfessorLesleyHitchens,DeanofFacultyoftheLawsfromtheUTS(UniversityofTechnology,Sydney),wasinvitedtovisitSHNUCollegeofPhilosophyandPoliticalSciencesonNovember18th.BothpartiesfromUTSandSHNUcomparednotesanddiscussedonhowtopromotecooperationininternationaldevelopment.GraceLi,ViceDeanofFacultyofLawsofUS,alsodeliveredaspeechthemedLawsandFutureofthelawspractitioners.Thespeechintroducedabouttheeducationpatternsofthefaculty

TheOpeningCeremonyofSino-BritishMathTeachersExchangeProgramwasheldatSHNUonNovember11th,andattractedabout107mathteachersfromprimaryandmiddleschoolstoattendtheceremony.ItwasalsoattendedbyAndrewMcCully,DirectorofPreliminaryEducationDepartmentofMinistryofEducationintheUK,ViceDirectorofInternationalExchangeCenterofMinistryofEducation,andViceDirectorofShanghaiMunicipalEducationCommission,etc.TheparticipantsalsovisitedShanghaiExperimentalPrimarySchoolandauditedtheclassofgeometrypractices,whichwontheuna

MarkPower,PresidentofLiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity,visitedSHNUanddiscussedstudentsexchangeprogramandotherfurthercooperationpossibilitiesonOctober10th.ProfessorPower,alongwithDr.JuliaWang,SupervisorofChineseStrategiesDepartmentandDr.EmmaRoberts,ViceDirectorofDepartmentofHumanitiesandSocialScienceswas,receivedbySHNUPresidentZhuZiqiangandSHNUVicePresidentJiangMingjun.Bothsidesexploredpossibilitiesofcooperatinginsoccereducationmajorsandresearchaboutsportsfield.LiverpoolJohnMooresUniversity(LJMU)isam

Inordertoexpandstudents’internationalvisionandstrengthentheircooperativeskillsofinterculturalcommunications,SHNUCollegeofPhilosophyandPoliticalSciencesstartacademicexchangesofPBL(ProjectBasedLearning)withvisitorsfromJapanTakushokuUniversity(JTU)duringtheperiodofSeptember4thtoSeptember7th.TheJTUprofessorledateamof20studentsandstartedathree-dayfieldsurveywith8studentsfromSHNUCollegeofPhilosophyandPoliticalSciencesinShanghai.Theycarriedouttheirsurveyscenteringaroundbrainstormingandcomposingbusiness