A delegation led by the Global Department Minister of the University of Plymouth visited BWU
On the afternoon of November 8, 2023, Vice President Liu Dake met with Michael Lurie, Head of Global Department, University of Plymouth, and David Adkins, Deputy Dean of Business School, University of Plymouth, who are visiting our school in Room 104 of the School of Logistics. Representatives from the International Office and the School of Logistics attended meetings.
Vice President Liu Dake first welcomed the visit of Michael Lurie and his delegation, and stated that during the severe outbreak of the pandemic in 2021 and 2022, six students from our school went to the University of Plymouth to participate in the 3+1 double degree program. This fully demonstrates the attraction of the cooperation projects between the two schools, and also represents that there are more possibilities for future cooperation.
Considering that the delegation are visiting our university for the first time, Vice President Liu Dake highlighted the unique characteristics of our university as the only public university in China and one of the few international universities with logistics and circulation as its main features. For decades, our school has trained a large number of senior professional talents in the field of circulation for the country, especially in industries such as logistics and securities futures, where graduates enjoy a high social reputation. At the same time, the school attaches great importance to international cooperation and exchange. Last year, the application for the Ministry of Education's Sino foreign cooperative undergraduate program in the field of big data was successfully approved and held with the University of New Haven in the United States. It is hoped that during the visit of University of Plymouth, we can further strengthen our deep cooperation with British universities in joint training and scientific research.
Minister Michael Lurie and Deputy Dean David Adkins responded that Beijing Wuzi University is a university with distinctive professional characteristics and is honored to become a partner with our school. University of Plymouth values cooperation with our university and is willing to expand more cooperation projects on the basis of existing cooperation. Meanwhile, the University of Plymouth has recently received the UK Teaching Excellence Gold Award, which is the highest honor in the UK teaching community.
Dean Jiang Xu introduced the professional characteristics and international exchanges of the School of Logistics. The Logistics College relies on a Full-system, full-coverage, full-chain logistics education system in logistics management, logistics engineering, procurement management, supply chain management, and quality management majors, cultivating a large number of outstanding professional talents for the logistics industry. We hope that both parties can expand their cooperation in education, scientific research, international conferences, and competitions, and provide suggestions on the mechanism for promoting joint work. Minister Michael Lurie and Deputy Dean David Adkins expressed great expectations for further in-depth cooperation in scientific research, academia, and two-way communication between teachers in relevant professional fields. Both sides have also established a communication mechanism for the feasibility of cooperation in the next stage.
At present, our school and the University of Plymouth have achieved good results in the joint training of students with 3+1 double degrees. On the basis of consolidating the existing cooperation, we will focus on key work, taking the university as the foundation, and deepen the intercollegiate cooperation between the university to university, and major to major, truly producing more cooperation results in talent cultivation and professional construction.
Prior to the meeting, Deputy Dean David Adkins gave an academic lecture on "Maritime Logistics Policy in the Context of Industry 4.0" to students.
Attachment: School Introduction and Cooperation History
The University of Plymouth was founded in 1862 and is a public comprehensive research university located in Plymouth, England. It is a member of the Marine Renewable Energy Research Alliance, JS-UK 20+20 World-Class University Consortium, the UK University Alliance, the Commonwealth University Association, and the European University Association. Plymouth University has been rated as a "world-renowned university" by the Science and Education Channel of China Central Television. It has the earliest and largest ocean research institute established in the UK, with marine disciplines at the world's top level, and maintains close academic cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oceanography at the National University of Science and Technology. The University of Plymouth has been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Medal in 1994, 2011, and 2020, respectively, with two highly cited scientists, three academicians from the Five Academies of the UK, and 23 members from the British Higher Education Society. Ranked 6th in the UK and 23rd in the world in terms of university influence; Leiden World University ranked 39th in the UK and 178th in the world in 2020; According to the ranking of world-class disciplines in soft science, Ship and Ocean Engineering ranks 11th in the world and Ocean Science ranks 34th in the world. The University of Plymouth has 11 ESI top 1% disciplines, is rated as one of the world's top 30 "under 30" academic institutions by the Natural Science Index, and ranks 83rd on the 2019 Natural Science Index Young University List. In addition, its Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry ranks 11th in the UK, 2nd in Dentistry, and 8th in Clinical Medicine.
The University of Plymouth established a cooperative relationship with our university in 2006. In 2011, we signed 3+1, 2+2 course agreements. Since 2019, 9 people (logistics, information, foreign language) have participated in the university's 3+1 dual degree program.