CityU joins Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area doctoral-level vocational teacher training consortium

Prof. Jun Liu, rector of City University of Macau, was recently invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Doctoral-Level Vocational Teacher Training Consortium and the Annual Conference 2023 of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Vocational Teacher Development Alliance in Guangzhou. During the event, CityU also signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University.

The conference, with the theme of “promoting and practicing the spirit of educators, cultivating high-level teachers with dual qualifications,” aimed to accelerate the development of strong education to support the country and promote the integrated development of teachers’ education in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It also aimed to explore new concepts and training mechanisms to better cultivate dual-qualification teachers for vocational schools who possess solid academic knowledge, outstanding professional skills, strong educational values, and good digital literacy. Over 200 experts, scholars, business executives, and representatives from universities across the country attended the conference.

At the conference, Dai Qingyun, president of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of the organizers. This was followed by speeches from Pei Hongwei, secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Chen Weimin, president of Guangdong Academy of Sciences, and Weng Bo, deputy director of the Department of Teacher Education at the Ministry of Education.

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The conference also featured a strategic cooperation agreement signing and unveiling ceremony. In the witness of all the participants and guests, CityU, as a member of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Doctoral-Level Vocational Teacher Training Consortium, signed a framework agreement for the joint development with Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, and officially unveiled the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Doctoral-Level Vocational Teacher Training Consortium.

In the keynote presentation session, Rector Jun Liu delivered a speech on cultivating high-quality vocational teachers with dual qualifications, sharing his thoughts and insights. He emphasized the significance of nurturing highly skilled vocational education teachers at the doctoral level to meet the country’s needs. The core focus, he explained, lies in cultivating interdisciplinary professionals who possess strong technical skills along with an integration of education theory, management expertise, and practical experience to drive the new development of vocational education. Rector Liu highlighted the importance of industry-academia collaboration, emphasizing that robust partnerships between polytechnic normal universities, innovative university education colleges, and forward-thinking companies could contribute to the formulation of framework standards, curriculum design, experiential learning, and research initiatives. He expressed CityU’s commitment as a member of the alliance to jointly forge a new path for the advancement of vocational education in China.

In addition, Liu Zhubao, program director of Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation (Guangdong branch), Cheng Wei, deputy general manager of China Unicom (Guangdong) Industrial Internet Co., Ltd., and Zhang Zhenbo, general manager of the Product Solution Department at Huawei Enterprise Business in Guangdong, participated as representatives from their respective enterprises. They delivered keynote speeches on various topics, including cooperation for smart future development, the integration of algorithms and networks to promote industry-education collaboration, and the trends in root technology development and talent cultivation in colleges and universities. Meng Qingguo, a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of Professional Degrees in Education, provided an in-depth study on “cultivating vocational teachers at the doctoral level” based on his years of practical experience and research.

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The development of the vocational education teacher workforce in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the establishment of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Doctoral-Level Vocational Teacher Training Consortium not only provide a platform for experts, scholars, and professionals in the field of vocational education to exchange ideas but also lay a solid foundation for the future development of high-quality vocational education and the cultivation of vocational teachers with dual qualifications in the Greater Bay Area.