On October 20, a delegation led by Wei Kwok Kee, President and CEO of the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), visited CUC. Shu Gangbo, Assistant to the President of CUC, met with the delegation and held a cooperation meeting on matters including the joint training of international talentand faculty and student exchanges.
Shu Gangbo welcomed the SIM delegation and introduced the university’s progress in the “Double First-Class” initiative, its disciplinary strengths, and its achievements in internationalized education. He noted that,guided by China’s broader opening-up strategy, CUC coordinates global cooperation resources, deepens its practice of international education, and continuously improves its talent cultivation system. He said that since CUC and SIM established contact in 2020, the two institutions have maintained regular communication and built a solid foundation for cooperation. Going forward, building on the existing cooperation and leveraging its distinctive media and communication disciplines, the university will continue to expand multi-level and multi-form international education cooperation between the two institutions.
Wei Kwok Kee expressed gratitude for CUC’s warm reception and spoke highly of CUC’s achievements in cultivating media talent. He introduced that SIM was founded in 1964 and conducts joint teaching programs with overseas universities in multiple countries. Guided by the educational philosophy of “educating all without discrimination and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude,” the Institute enhances students’ competitiveness in the workplace through career assessment, micro-courses, and an employment support system, achieving an employment rate of 83% for its 2025 graduates. Wei Kwok Kee said that SIM attaches great importance to cooperation with CUC and looks forward to jointly exploring international education cooperation paths suited to the disciplinary characteristics of both institutions.
At the meeting, the two sides exchanged views in depth on international curriculum cooperation, faculty matching, and student recruitment planning. In the future, the two institutions will maintain regular communication, continue to build on existing cooperation achievements, actively explore more dimensions of joint cultivation models, and work together to advance the cultivation of international talent in the media and communication field.
Wang Wenyuan, Director of CUC’s Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, Wang Huanan, Director of the Education Development Center, and Liu Jianan, Deputy Director of the Center, attended the meeting.
This article was translated with the assistance of an AI large language model.
Editor: Li Jialu
