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Higher education-themed annual conference held in Nanjing

english.jsjyt.edu.cn| Updated: December 1, 2022 L M S

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The 2022 annual conference of the Higher Education Association of Jiangsu Province is held in Nanjing. [Photo/official WeChat account of the Higher Education Association of Jiangsu Province]

The 2022 annual conference of the Higher Education Association of Jiangsu Province was held in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, from Nov 25 to 27.

More than 300 people, including education experts and representatives from 30 universities in the province attended the event, which was themed on the digital transition and high-quality development of higher education.

Chang Tongshan, director of the Institutional Research and Academic Planning Department of the Office of the President at University of California, presented the opportunities and challenges brought by digitalization to higher education and said that universities need to implement digital transition to aid their decision-making, strategy planning and performance review.

Ge Daokai, director-general of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, noted that Jiangsu's higher education outperforms most regions in China and that the province has been leading the country in promoting the integrated development of education, industries and scientific research.

Ge also called for efforts to boost innovation in vocational education, higher education, and continuing education simultaneously.

During the conference, several educators from universities including Nanjing University and Changzhou College of Information Technology shared their latest findings on higher education development.