This morning, the 2023 Asia-Europe International Teacher Education Forum and the Seminar on the Review and Prospect of Gansu's High-level Education Opening Up Ten-Year Seminar was held at Northwest Normal University. The conference aims to promote mutual understanding and inter-school cooperation in teacher education between China and countries along the "Belt and Road", clarify the next stage of promoting the opening up of high-level education, and build consensus and contribute wisdom to better implement the regional coordinated development strategy and serve the new development pattern.
Jia Peng, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Ministry of Education, said in his speech that education is an integral part of the Belt and Road Initiative. Gansu is located at a key node of the Silk Road, and this seminar will surely gather a new consensus on the reform and development of teacher education through academic exchanges, collision of views, observation of achievements and cultural display of domestic and foreign experts, and will also inject new momentum into international education exchanges and cooperation.
Zhang Guozhen, Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Provincial Department of Education, pointed out that in recent years, the level of international education in Gansu Province has continued to improve, forming a good situation of a hundred flowers blooming and integrated development. He said that only by adhering to the concept of openness and inclusiveness and promoting practical cooperation in education can we achieve common development and mutual benefit. In the face of the new international situation and historical mission, all participants should work together to continuously improve the system and mechanism of international cooperation in education, and take innovative measures to promote the vigorous development of teacher education and international cooperation.
Jia Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee of Northwest Normal University, and Zhao Jun, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Gansu Province, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. Zheng Yu, full-time deputy secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, attended the opening ceremony, and Wang Zhanren, president and deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Northwest Normal University, presided over the opening ceremony. At the opening ceremony, Belarusian State Pedagogical University and Northwestern Pedagogical University signed a cooperation agreement on student exchange programsTaiwan's Chinese Culture University and Northwest Normal University renewed their inter-university exchange agreement.
At the keynote forum of the conference, based on the macro background of education opening up, the guests delivered keynote speeches with the theme of "Asia-Europe International Teacher Education", deeply reviewed and looked forward to the high-level opening up of education in Gansu, and shared and exchanged views on topics such as the cultivation of international talents in Asian and European universities, and the promotion of teachers' professional development through UGS cooperation in Asian and European countries, so as to jointly develop the future direction of contemporary teacher education reform and development and education internationalization.
Author: Zheng Pengsheng, Yin Xiaojun, Cui Tong.