Work meetings at some of our partner schools in Shanghai and nearby Suzhou. The Chinese are working hard on higher education reform to introduce more applied vocational (college-type) training programs to sustain/maintain their fast growing economy.
IVT is a college 20 years young/old. In 1998 I visited here when they were just starting in a new industrial park. Niagara College became one of their founding board members.....
The proof of that was still on the wall of one of their newer buildings. They have created many partnerships with industrial companies who set up shop in the industrial park. They also fly the flags of all these companies in front of their main building...
Industry driven training has become their main theme very much in line with what the Canadian college system has developed as their main strength. The IVT buildings are full of fantastic labs and training rooms for students as well as employees from these partner businesses.
Recently they opened a new school for industrial design with initial focus on interior design and fashion design.
The IVT campus also houses a tourism call center of one of the two large on-line companies in China who function like Expedia in North America.
An impressive school with whom Seneca will develop jointly delivered programs in coming years.
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