Shanghai Xing Jian Polytechnic College is a higher vocational
college, which is approved by Shanghai municipality, registered
by the Education Ministry of China and sponsored by the government.
The college covers an area of about 16.4 acres. The total
investment amounts to RMB 260 million. Campus-building occupies
more than 75,000 square meters. It has 130 classrooms of different
types. In addition, it has ten buildings with different functions,
among which are a modern multimedia center, a computerized library,
labs with advanced facilities, a workshop building and a gymnasium
with a unique style. The college also has three teaching and
training centers attached to it.
Now the college has a total staff of 306, majority of whom
are professional teachers with titles of lecturers or
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professors.
In recent years, we have engaged some teachers with doctoral
degree or master's degree. Besides, the college also invites
some well-known professors and experts to deliver lectures.
The college adheres to the educational principle "Based
on the students' demand, assist the students to be successful".
In order to make the students suitable for the society, we attach
importance in our teaching to the training of applied abilities
in technology and of practical abilities in technology and of
practical abilities in operation. The college is actively pursuing
the higher education reform with regard to the mode and the
scale of its development. In our teaching, we place emphasis
on "curriculum construction", including corresponding
patterns made up of relative courses, offering different professionals
students with different background a "menu" of diversified
courses. So we can add the proportion of optional courses and
frequency of lectures for students to choose.
The college is making great efforts to become one of model
higher vocational colleges in Shanghai. And it is searching
for new ways to cooperate with foreign education institutions.
Recently, some specialized departments in our college have established
cooperative relationships with some prestigious universities
of America, Japan, France and Australia, etc. By cooperating
with these universities both at home and abroad, our college
is endeavoring to improve management and professional work.
As an old Chinese saying from book of changes goes,"
As the heaven movement is vigorous, one must ceaselessly strive
along." New century brings us opportunities as well as
challenges. Managed by law and morality, with all the staff
going all out to make it stronger. Shanghai Xing Jian polytechnic
college will surely become one model higher vocational college
of Shanghai.
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