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以人为本,以学生为中心
In order to promote the educational cooperation and exchanges between China and the UK, and cultivate international high-level applied talents, CSCSE and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) jointly introduced CSCSE-SQA Advanced Diploma Programme in 2003 to China. It combines high-quality foreign course systems with high-quality educational resources of domestic universities and highlighting the people-oriented and student-centered school philosophy. It created a new model of cross-border education and become an effective way for students to study abroad. The programme provides the opportunity for students to receive high-quality educational resources, also could save expensive overseas study fees for students and parents. In 2017, CSCSE-SQA Advanced Diploma Programme was written into the “Joint Statement of the Fifth Meeting of the China-UK High-level People-to-people Exchange Mechanism”, which is a great contribution to the programme’s educational exchanges and cooperation between China and the UK. It laid a solid foundation for the development of the programme. Meanwhile, CSCSE provides one-stop supporting services for eligible programme students, such as academic degree certification, file storage, settlement and dispatch, and related information.At present, more than 30 domestic universities offer 15 courses in 5 categories, including business, computer, tourism and hotel management, logistics and engineering. The programme will be full-time study in China for three years, student in first year will learn international foundation course in order to improve intensive English skills. And there are professional training courses in second and third years. After three years of study, the programme graduates will be able to use English proficiently and be skillful at international, front knowledge in related majors. At present, there are about 11,000 current students are enrolled in over 30 domestic universities in China and more than 50,000 students successfully graduated in 18 years. Graduates who have obtained the programme certificates and achieved the requirements of foreign universities have been admitted to more than 100 universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Netherlands and other countries. After completing their undergraduate studies in foreign universities, most programme students continue to study for master degrees and doctoral degrees.