Group Photo with Chief Executive of NZQA and President of UNITEC etc.
On 19th June, President Xing Guanglu was invited by the New Zealand Institute of Technology to attend a reception hosted by the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing. The event, an integral part of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s official visit to China, underscored both nations’ determination to deepen educational cooperation.
At the reception, President Xing briefed Ms. Amanda Malu, Chief Executive of Education New Zealand, on QTC’s achievements in vocational education. Ms. Malu commended QTC’s efforts in cultivating globally-competent technical talent, and agreed to expand exchange programmes and explore innovative models of collaboration to create diverse learning opportunities for students and staff from both countries. President Xing also held in-depth talks with President Gus Gilmore on enhancing cooperation in programme development, teacher training and student exchanges, jointly mapping out a future blueprint for partnership.
OTC’s cooperation with New Zealand dates back to 2009, when QTC launched a joint tourism-management programme with Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Over the past 15 consecutive intakes, the programme has produced nearly 500 tourism professionals with an international outlook. QTC have dispatched 25 faculty members in ten cohorts to partner institutions for training and study tours, bringing New Zealand’s advanced educational concepts and teaching methods back to QTC’s classrooms. With broad support, QTC have co-hosted ten sessions of the “China-New Zealand Higher Vocational Education Forum,” providing a high-level platform for experts from both countries. In 2018, together with the Waikato Institute of Technology, QTC established a China-New Zealand Demonstration Base for Vocational Education Teacher Training, which has already trained close to 100 backbone teachers for domestic vocational colleges. In 2023, QTC’s joint programme was selected as a flagship project for Sino-foreign cooperative education in Shandong Province, further highlighting its demonstrative impact.
Looking ahead, QTC will remain committed to openness, inclusiveness and win-win collaboration. Leveraging the Tourism and Broad-Service Discipline Sub-committee as a springboard, QTC will join hands with New Zealand partners to refine joint talent-cultivation schemes, develop internationally compatible curricula, and expand student study tours and faculty exchanges, thereby forging a globally influential vocational-education brand. QTC will also explore new models of industry-education integration, deepen cooperation between enterprises and educational institutions in both countries, and build an ecosystem in which education, talent and industry chains are seamlessly integrated. By injecting fresh momentum into the development of vocational education in both nations, QTC will contribute to the Belt and Road Initiative and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and cultivate more high-calibre technical and skilled professionals with global competitiveness for the economic and social development of China and New Zealand.
