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By: Communications
This April, the UEA China team welcomed seven UEA academics for events across seven cities in China.
Academics visited some of UEA’s key university partners, reconnected with agents, attended events at international schools, and connected with current offer holders and alumni.
The events started in Guangzhou, Nanjing and Suzhou where Lucill Curtis (NBS Director of Admissions, Recruitment and Marketing), Yifan Chen (NBS Internationalisation Coordinator), Dr Thomas Roebuck (Associate Dean for Admissions, Faculty of Arts and Humanities), Michael Lengsfield (Associate Professor, AMA School), Dr Stephen Laycock (Associate Dean for Admissions, Faculty of Science), Dr Jeannette Chin (Associate Professor in Computing Science), and Dr Emiliya Lazarova (Head of School of Economics) met students and staff from UEA's key university partners.
The delegation then got together in Beijing and Shanghai for a 2024 offer holder meet-up and an academic conference: UEA’s graduates of the future – AI and the skills needed for tomorrow’s workplace. The academic panel discussed how AI is taught and utilised at UEA and debated if AI could create the next great novel or Hollywood blockbuster.
Tim Hubbard, Head of East Asia Partnerships and Recruitment in the UEA Global Team, is based in Guangzhou, South China. He commented:
“It has been a real pleasure to welcome our academics to China this spring. Working closely with international partners is a key part of UEA’s 2030 strategy and these events were a great success. Engaging in China face to face is important and the events themselves, with the social media coverage we have seen this week, makes the trip very worthwhile.”
Image: Jeremy Qian, Country Manager for Mainland China, leads a panel discussion focused on AI in Shanghai.
Image L-R: Michael Lengsfield, Dr Thomas Roebuck, Tim Hubbard and Yifan Chen perform a guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Image L-R: Judy Zhu and Tim Hubbard; the UEA Business Development Office meet UEA’s 2024 offer holders in Beijing.
Dr Thomas Roebuck said: “It’s been a privilege to be part of this delegation, and especially to have had the opportunity to meet partners for Arts and Humanities courses at six universities in China and reconnect with some of our wonderful alumni.”
Dr Stephen Laycock commented: “It was my great pleasure to visit China and have the opportunity to talk face-to-face with some of our partners for the first time. It was particularly interesting to discuss different approaches to teaching and research.
“We also had the wonderful opportunity to showcase some of our teaching methods and to highlight some of UEA’s key strengths in student wellbeing and graduate outcomes with our offer holders, and I look forward to welcoming them to the campus in September.”
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