TJU Teachers at 63rd Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society

From April 14 to 18, 2019, Professor Pan Haisheng, Professor Qie Haixia, Associate Professor Yang Yuan and Associate Professor Dong Wei, all from Tianjin University School of Education, attended the 63rd Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Annual meeting in San Francisco, USA, and organized a roundtable forum on behalf of Tianjin University.

The theme of the forum was “Higher Education and Regional Sustainable Development”. Professor Qie Haixia served as the chairman of this roundtable forum, which aims to explore strategies and pathways for tertiary education to effectively promote regional sustainable development, and to help boost regional economy and the coordinated development of society. During the forum, Professor Qie Haixia analyzed the roles research universities played in regional innovation from the perspective of knowledge production. Both Professor Pan Haisheng and Professor Dong Wei focused on the development of higher vocational education. Prof. Pan discussed how higher vocational education should develop to serve the regional economy in an era of new industrial revolution while Associate Prof. Dong proposed training strategies higher vocational education could employ to cultivate students that meet the demands of the intelligent manufacturing industry. Professor Yang Yuan analyzed how the industrial structure, growth rate and transformation during the past 40 years after the implement of the reform and opening-up policy have had on college graduates’ employment and predicted its developing trend.

The forum attracted enthusiastic Chinese and international participants including scholars and doctoral students. After an in-depth exchange of the topics under the theme, the attendees discussed some academic issues of mutual interest and reached a new level of cooperation.

Founded in 1956, the North American Institute of Comparative and International Education (CIES) is the world's first institutionalized comparative education society and one of the most influential comparative education academic organizations in the world. The theme of this annual meeting is: "Education for Sustainability". The meeting attracted more than 3,000 scholars, policy makers and practitioners working in research and education related fields from all over the world.

By Qie Haixia from the School of Education

Editors: Eva Yin & Doris Harrington