Delegation from University of Portsmouth, UK, Visits ECUST

Recently, a Britishdelegation comprising Professor Anne Murphy, Vice President of the Universityof Portsmouth, Dr Jacqueline Priego, Vice Dean of the School of Humanities andSocial Sciences, and Professor Raymond Lee, Vice Dean of the School of Engineering,paid a visit to ECUST. Zhu Weihong, Vice President of ECUST, met with theBritish guests. They were accompanied by Shen Yueping, Secretary of the PartyCommittee of the College of Continuing Education, Lu Xiwen, Dean of the Collegeof Continuing Education, Li Xiaopeng, Dean of the College of InternationalEducation, and Lin Mei, Deputy Director of the Humanities and Social SciencesDepartment.

Both sides hoped tolaunch a new joint training program for international students coming to ECUSTunder the International Joint Multi-degree Program (JMD). It was proposed thatthe two universities carry out further cooperation in the fields of scientificresearch projects, high-level exchange visits and short-term summer programs,deepening the sound cooperative relationship between the two universities andlaying a solid foundation for future cooperation in wider fields.

After the meeting, AnneMurphy and her delegation, accompanied by relevant staff, visited ECUST’suniversity history exhibition room and were briefed on the university’sdevelopment history and scientific research achievements.