Opening Ceremony of UK-NPU Entrepreneurship and Employability Education Day & Official Launching of the QMES Centre for Students' International Development
The Opening Ceremony of UK-NPU Entrepreneurship and Employability Education Day & Official Launching of the Centre for Students' International Development of Queen Marry University of London Engineering School, NPU (QMES) was successfully held on April 27th, 2019 in Chang'an Campus, Northwestern Polytechnic University (NPU). The event was co-hosted by the British Embassy in China and NPU, and jointly organized by Office of International Cooperation, Teaching Affairs Department, Undergraduate Student Affairs Department of NPU, NPU Youth League Committee and the QMES.
Nick Low, Counselor of the British Embassy in China, Duan Libing, Deputy Director of the Office of International Cooperation, Wang Qi, Deputy Director of Teaching Affairs Department, Zha Gangqiang, Deputy Director of the Undergraduate Student Affairs Department of NPU, Zhou Kai, Secretary of NPU Youth League Committee, Kong Jie, Dean of QMES, Vice-Dean Fan Xiaoli and Chen Jun were at present. More than 100 participants including teachers and parent representatives and students from 11 Schools of NPU, and Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology University of South Australia An De College, attended the event.
During the opening session, the distinguished guests jointly launched the QMES Center for Students’ International Development.
In the practice session, led by education experts, students participated in various practical activities including employability tests, entrepreneurial workshops and high-intensive design thinking activities, etc. Through these activities, all the students not only learned new knowledge, made new friends, but also had a deeper understanding on their entrepreneurial potential, personality and innovative thinking ability.
The establishment of the QMES Center for Students’ International Development is a beneficial attempt to explore the innovative mode of work on student international development and to deepen the reform on the mechanism of work on student affairs. The UK-NPU Entrepreneurship and Employment Day is one of the innovative practices of QMES to implement the work requirements generated from the discussion on talents education in NPU. It aims to broadening students' international horizon and adding innovative impetus to the entrepreneurship and innovation education of NPU.
