Cooperative school injection new kinetic energy into the Greater Bay Area

In February 2019, after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Outline of the Development Planning of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), including the "Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao Bay Bay, which is the" Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macau Special Administrative Region and the Pearl River Delta. The important strategic position of the district (hereinafter referred to as the Greater Bay Area) is established in the overall national development situation. An important strategic positioning of the Greater Bay Area is to form an international scientific and technological innovation center with global influence, build an educational and talent highland, and build an international education demonstration zone. This puts forward urgent needs for higher education systems including Chinese -foreign cooperative schools.

Since 2019, the Greater Bay Area cooperation has shown a strong development trend. As of June 2022, a total of 104 cooperative institutions and projects in China, Mainland, and Hong Kong and Macao cooperatives in Guangdong Province (excluding stop enrollment), of which newly approved the establishment and organized by China, the Mainland, and Hong Kong and Macao cooperative institutions and projects after 2019 will reach 33, accounting for 31.7%of the total, of which there are 9 cooperative institutions of China, foreign, Mainland, and Hong Kong and Macao in the undergraduate level, including 2 universities with legal person qualifications -Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan) (raised) Essence As of now, the university of independent legal person qualifications approved by Guangdong Province has increased to 6 (including 1 settlement), accounting for more than half of these institutions in the country. Among the 104 institutions and projects, there are 17 countries and regions that cooperate. They are mainly concentrated in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United States, France, and foreign partners are mainly economic developed countries and regions. There are 20 projects, 11 masters and above projects. It can be seen that the introduction of high -quality educational resources in the Greater Bay Area has increased significantly, and the completion of the cooperative institutions and projects and the economic and social development of the Greater Bay Area has greatly increased. The education system and cluster development are relatively lacking universities and majors. The original cooperation agencies and projects have also been upgraded. For example, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) achieved rapid development by extending the academic year limit of cooperation, increasing the level of running schools, and expanding the scale of running schools. It is very exciting that the cooperation between Macao universities and mainland universities has made new breakthroughs. In addition to the new cooperative school running projects, the cooperative institutions are also actively promoting and making significant progress.

The "Overall Plan for the Comprehensive Cooperation of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, which is deepened by the world" issued by the State Council in June this year states: "Defining specialized areas in Nansha, creating high -level education open test fields, high -level colleges and universities gather places, and the Greater Bay Area higher education cooperation cooperation new highland . Support the introduction of overseas first -class education resources in accordance with laws and regulations to carry out high -level cooperative schools in Nansha to promote the construction of world -class universities and first -class disciplines. "It can be expected that Guangzhou Nansha will become a major town for cooperative schools in the Greater Bay Area and will explore new cooperative school running schools. Positioning, new model.

Looking forward to the future, the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area cooperation will open a new chapter from the following aspects.

First, serve the overall situation of national development and education. For a long time, the positioning of cooperative schools is a form of form and education in international cooperation and exchanges. Under the new situation, it is necessary for us to understand the cooperative school in the future of the country's education and development of the country. Cooperative schooling not only helps to enrich and expand the school's schooling resources and space for colleges and universities, but also an organic part of the national education system. In fact, cooperative schooling has also become an important path choice to solve some issues that currently plague higher education in my country. For example, to cultivate the problem of innovative talents, we must not only be based on their homeland, but also strengthen education exchanges and cooperation with overseas. We can learn and learn from the beneficial experience of high -end talents in overseas universities through cooperation. Incorporating cooperative schools into the overall layout of the "double first -class" construction (such as first -class discipline construction layout, etc.), it also helps to promote the "double first -class" construction to a new level, thereby generating new growth poles, better exerting the guidance and support of higher education, and supporting higher education. effect. In the future, in terms of the development path selection of cooperative schools in the Greater Bay Area, we must pay more attention to the active layout, so that the cooperative schools integrate into the overall situation of national development and education.

Second, promote the construction of a modern vocational education system. The construction of a modern vocational education system is an important part of building a high -quality education system, and it also plays a very important role in the construction of the Greater Bay Area. Cooperative schooling is of great significance for building a modern vocational education system. It draws on the advanced school experience of overseas institutions and absorbs overseas high -quality resources, especially some high -quality vocational undergraduate education resources that reflect the development direction of modern industries. Education reforms improve the adaptability of vocational education. How to do the current professional undergraduate education is still an unshasage issue in my country. The relatively separated and mutual school running model of foreign vocational education can provide policy revelation and practical case demonstration for cracking this problem.

Third, play a unique role in building a new highland to build education. Opening to the outside world is the basic national policy of my country. Education opening to the outside world is an important part of the country's opening cause. Further creating a new highland for education to the outside world is a major goal and task for the future development of cooperative schools. Since the release of the Outline, 20 new universities in the 9 cities in the Greater Bay Area have negotiated or started construction, and 7 of them are Hong Kong and Macao cooperative schools. The "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan for Education Development in Guangdong Province" states: "In -depth promotion of the development of higher education cooperation in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, accelerate the establishment of high -level, open, and international higher education resources." It is necessary to explore the restrictions on the main body of the cooperative school and school running mode, give corresponding encouragement guidance policies or implement special management measures, give full play to regional characteristics and advantages, and try first. In the future, it is important to promote the in -depth development of schools in the Greater Bay Area to develop schools. For example, in the past, Hong Kong and Macao universities went to the Mainland to cooperate with the Mainland to run the "Regulations on the Chinese and Foreign Cooperation Schools of the People's Republic of China". This not only increases the risk of cooperation to run schools, but also is not conducive to the in -depth development of cooperation. In response to the actual needs of the construction of the Greater Bay Area International Education Demonstration Zone, study and formulate special regulations and regulations, to cooperate with the school to run a school, integrate from Hong Kong and Macao into the overall national development situation, and explore the innovation of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao education system. What systems need to be connected and connected, and which systems need to retain their own characteristics appropriately, so that education in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area has truly become a community of development and jointly build an international education demonstration zone.

(Author: Lu Xiaozhong Chen Liya Unit is the Institute of Higher Education of South China Normal University, Lu Xiaozhong is the Dean of the Education Development Institute of Education Development of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Bay Area of ​​South China Normal University)

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