On April 18, Wang Shidong, Director of Oxford Prospects Programmes, accompanied by programme assistant Liu Yichen , and Richard Beresford, Director of of the Centre of Creativity and Enterprise Development of Oxford Brookes University visited GSB. Liang Jie, Associate Dean of GSB, and Pro. Liu Shilan held a meeting with the guests.
Richard Beresford highlighted that Oxford Brookes University values creativity and attaches great importance to enterprise development. He introduced two key institutes for Britain’s creativity and enterprise development— Enterprise Educators UK and Small Business Charter. And Liang Jie briefed on the development of GSB, its achievements attained in the field,and the its available international exchange projects. Both sides exchanged ideas on cooperation in creativity and enterprise innovation, and expressed hope that besides holding meeting, starting dialogue and establishing centers for creativity and enterprise innovation, the two universities can further explore the possibilities of exchanging visiting scholars and carrying out cooperation in scientific research.
During the meeting, Wang Shidong discussed with Liang Jie about the Oxford-GSB Leading Young Entrepreneur Training Class to be launched at the end of September 2016, and both sides thus clarified the training class is to offer trainees opportunities to study in Oxford, and so that, they can directly exchange ideas with experts, scholars and entrepreneurs from Britain, study the western political and business culture, and learn the western approaches to enterprise management, ways to develop century-old family companies as well as to detect the hotspot and new driving forces for creativity and enterprise innovation against the current economy settings.
Background Information:
The University of Oxford is a public collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. Its teaching history can date as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest higher education institute. The University of Oxford is an acknowledged top university in the world and boasts prestigious unique higher education system. The oxford ranks top in many disciplines and spreads its fame with diversified teaching approaches. It has produced notable alumni generation after generation.
Oxford Prospects Programmes (OPP) was founded by a group of Oxford University alumni from different backgrounds. They believe passionately in the importance of cross-cultural communication in this increasingly globalized world, and are dedicated to promoting academic and cultural exchange between the UK (specifically Oxford) and other countries.
OPP is accredited by the British Accreditation Council as an independent short course provider.
Oxford Brookes University was founded in 1865 in Oxford, England, the known worldwide university city. The university stands as a comprehensive college and was ever awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. It was ranked 324th in the world according to the QS World University Rankings in 2015. Its dominant specialties include hotel management, business administration, and applied accounting. It has been praised by local and world business scholars with unique and advanced academic education innovation. Its Business School has been accredited by AMBA. And it is also one of the major universities where to take ACCA examination.
