EICC joins hands with GLEN to promote and lead educational innovation
--Embracing innovation, co-construction, sharing, and win-win
The Online Signing Ceremony of the Strategic Cooperation Agreement between EICC and GLEN was held successfully
Cambridge, 15 December 2022 –ELITE Innovation College Cambridge, today announces the start of academic cooperation between EICC and GLEN China
On 13th December 2022, Professor Richard Li-Hua, Founder and President of ELITE Innovation College Cambridge (EICC), United Kingdom, and Mr. Hongbo Qiao, Founder and CEO of Beijing GLEN Education Group (GLEN), China, jointly signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement. Both parties shared an exciting vision in tackling the challenges and opportunities for developing future leaders and managers in the post COVID-19 era.
Strategic Collaboration Signing Ceremony Between EICC And GLEN
Mr. Hongbo Qiao, Founder and CEO of GLEN, Beijing China
Mr. Hongbo Qiao, Founder and CEO of GLEN expressed at the signing ceremony, “We are very happy to make such a great strategic collaboration with ELITE Innovation College Cambridge. We appreciate Professor Li Hua's educational innovation concept and philosophy, Agora ELITE Education model, innovative features and development strategy of global participation. The cooperation with ELITE Innovation College Cambridge will enable us to obtain a wider range of global academic resources and partners. We are eagerly looking forward to the multi-faceted in-depth cooperation with EICC”.
Professor Richard Li-Hua
Founder and President of ELITE Innovation College Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor Richard Li-Hua expressed at the signing ceremony, “It is a great privilege to be a strategic partner with GLEN. We are proud that we have pioneered Agora ELITE O2O Innovative Structure. We offer holistic education through reframing Oxbridge model. We are very privileged to have strong connection with Oxbridge with the state of art of technology and world class collegial, inspirational and academic ambiance and environment”.
“With the gradual opening up of China's epidemic prevention policy, we will realize more diverse and more convenient opportunities for international exchanges and cooperation, which is very beneficial to the cooperation between us. I hope that we will work together to continue to deepen our long-term and fruitful partnership, to serve students all over the world and bring them great value. We are warmly looking forward to the offline exchange of visits and exchanges with colleagues from GLEN.”
Professor Dominique Jolly: Co-founder of EICC, Paris France
Professor Dominique Jolly expressed at the signing ceremony, “We are very honored to cooperate with GLEN. EICC focuses on academic quality, globalization and global participation, and strategic cooperation with global partners. We are very happy to join hands with GLEN to integrate into the global higher education development network and bring a world-class learning experience to Chinese students and all the students globally.”
Both parties are very grateful to Professor Zhu Mingxia for her strategic guidance and academic support.
EICC and GLEN will gradually launch strategic cooperation work in the following aspects:
1. Joint efforts to build the GLEN’s Graduate School of Education in Cambridge and ELITE Global College (EGC) - EICC Offline Delivery Centre in Beijing
The two parties have reached this agreement to work together to ensure the sustainable development of the Graduate School. EICC as the GLEN’s Graduate School, invite GLEN to set up a representative office in Cambridge. GLEN provides physical office space and invites EICC to set up its Beijing Branch/Campus including:
EICC Offline Delivery Centre
EICC Centre for Excellence
EICC Centre for Research and Innovation
EICC Innovation & Incubation Centre or its Campus
The two parties will set up the "Beijing Branch of ELITE Innovation College Cambridge " to be responsible for the teaching and scientific research of ELITE Innovation College Cambridge in Beijing. And send international students from different countries to GLEN for the short-term study. Such as Chinese linguistics and literature or other mutual recognition of credit courses, innovation and entrepreneurship education and short-term exchange program for international students.
Both parties will work together in developing a strategic plan for enabling the Five universities, which are the strategic partners of EICC, including University of the West of Scotland (UWS), University of Applied Science Europe (UE), Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), International University of Applied Science (IU) and Trinity Western University (TWU) to be introduced into the [Educational Innovation Experimental Project], so as gradually to set up [Educational Innovation Experimental Project] in Beijing.
2. Related with Student: Articulation arrangement, well-selected programmes, combined master and doctoral studies
As for the Graduate School established by both parties in Cambridge, EICC will concentrate on serving GLEN in terms of future discipline development and professional development. Taking GLEN’s discipline development direction as its direction, EICC will select relevant programmes and enable GLEN’s outstanding undergraduates to achieve masters and PhDs through the articulation education.
EICC and its degree-granting partners include the International University of Applied Technology in Germany, Trinity Western University in Canada and Davis College in the United States through franchising and cooperation. For details, see:
The duration of the exchange student program is generally one semester or two semesters. EICC recognizes the credits obtained by the sent students during their study in GLEN, and recognizes the academic transcripts and study certificates issued by GLEN.
3. Related with Academic Members of Staff: Improvement of Teaching and Scientific Research
Both parties will cooperate deeply in teacher training and recommending foreign teachers to teach in GLEN. In terms of building soft power and improving academic strength, EICC will concentrate its efforts to serve GLEN, and select relevant programmes based on its subject development direction so as to provide channels and convenience for the enhancement of its teachers' teaching and research level, professional level improvement, English proficiency improvement and academic promotion.
In order to improve the level of teaching and scientific research, as well as the ability to publish books and academic papers, EICC welcomes teachers from GLEN to EICC’s Centre for Research and Innovation and Centre for Excellence, and to carry out the training of doctoral and master students.
The initial professional programs offered are as follows:
Master in Leadership
DBA
PhD
Chief Innovation Officer programme (EDP)
4. Related with Leadership: Improvement of innovation, academic capacity, and execution
In terms of international visibility and talent employment, the two parties will appoint acting position/interim position to each other to enhance the innovation, academic capacity, leadership and execution of both parties so as to establish GLEN’s global reputation and enhance GLEN’s internationalization level, jointly build an international education brand. To leverage the advantages of EICC’s brand of educational innovation and the platform to promote Sino-UK cooperation and innovation in education, science and technology.
The two parties will also co-host online and offline [Global Innovation Webinar] and [University Presidents Forum] in China and the UK.
Profile of Beijing GLEN Education Group (GLEN), China
GLEN was founded in 2010, adhering to the tenet of "Glenn makes life better", takes "customizing the most valuable products and services for each family" as its corporate mission, and always adheres to the mission of "achieving customers", continue to empower education innovation with technology.
As a one-stop solution provider for the teaching and research system of basic education and higher education in domestic colleges and universities, GLEN has also built a bridge for the cooperation between domestic and foreign colleges and universities, and provided a basis for the joint construction of school-enterprise courses (big data, cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, block chain, digital village, double carbon economy and other professional fields) and enterprise consulting training, providing high-quality course services and perfect technical systems.
GLEN's scale: 6 branches and more than 500 consulting centers have been established nationwide to provide consulting and guidance to more than 600,000 users across the country. The company currently has a professional team of more than 600 people (more than 100 people in the headquarters, more than 500 people in branches and consulting centers across the country), of which 85% have a bachelor's degree or a master's degree or above, and more than 25% are returnees.
GLEN’s faculty: successively reached strategic cooperation agreements with the Chinese Society of Education, Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, China Mental Health Association, SASAC Professional Manager Research Center, China Construction Industry Press, Chinese Teaching Press and other units, and the partners are not only all over the top Educational institutions have also established partnerships with many first-class institutions such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Foreign Affairs University, and Shanghai Tongji University.
GLEN's features: the success rate of the college entrance examination application program is over 90%, and the success rate of the application within 5 minutes is 71%. Accurate academic planning and objective user guidance have been recognized by many users and industry experts, and won the "Annual The Most Valuable Educational Chain Institution".
Based in Beijing, it has four company offices in Henan, Hebei, Chongqing, and Shandong, and more than 50 prefecture-level teaching centers, covering Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Fujian and many other provinces and regions, providing consulting and teaching services to more than 300,000 users across the country.
The company has more than 100 computer software patents and copyrights, and has been identified as a national high-tech enterprise and Zhong Guan Cun high-tech enterprise many times. The company has a number of professional qualification certifications, including Internet information service license, radio and television program production business license, high-tech enterprise certification, etc. The company has also passed the third-level certification of network security and other guarantees.
Profile of ELITE Innovation College Cambridge (EICC)：
ELITE Innovation College Cambridge (EICC) is a British Educational Institution that provides undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes with our co-branded academic partners, and executive education, workshops, conferences, and seminars in various subjects, locally, internationally, and globally, working with Partners in the United Kingdom, Asia, Africa North America and the Middle East.
ELITE is an acronym of E-Learning of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship. It was during the COVID-19 pandemic that ELITE Innovation College Cambridge (EICC) was consolidated and re-created. Still, its history can be traced back to 2006, when a group of outstanding management scholars launched CAMOT[1] during IAMOT [2] International Conference in Tsinghua University.
IAMOT [2] International Conference at Tsinghua University
The four colleges: Innovation College, Technology College, Entrepreneurship College and Global Leadership College that we have established based upon the 15 years of accumulation of global academic resources. The colleges provide an academic arm of EICC, as well as extra liberal arts curriculum to our degree and non-degree programmes, and qualifications that we deliver for the enhancement of student journey which delivers alongside our degree awarding power universities.
Four colleges of EICC
Further, our Agoura ELITE O2O Innovative Structure is what differentiates EICC from conventional higher education. This structure is based upon the education of innovation and entrepreneurship, delivered through a novel platform that challenges the traditional ways of learning. Coupled with prestigious academic quality, global engagement, and strategic collaboration with worldwide partners, EICC provides significant value to its students.
EICC headquarter at St. John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Our strength lies in our innovation and entrepreneurial spirit that underpins a holistic educational framework and a unique pedagogy with online capabilities to create a focused and flexible environment for our learners. This environment combines online learning and offline delivery centres in cities around the world, which extends access to provide engaged social learning experience. This learning model combines explicit and tacit knowledge transfer that is entrenched in human learning behaviour and contributes to the delivery of an enriched and enhanced student experience.
EICC headquarter at St. John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
In addition, EICC's global research and engagement, which includes EICC’s Global Innovation Webinar series and the Global University President Forum, develops and sustains worldwide higher education, research and global engagement, creates globally connected learning and practice communities so as to enhance the learning journey and student experience. We are privileged to be a strategic partner of United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI).
Over a decade, we have been successfully organizing international conferences and forums with global universities, including Tsinghua University (CAMOT Conference 2014 Beijing) and University of Cambridge (CAMOT Conference 2016 Cambridge) and University of Law (University President Forum 2021 London) with university presidents, vice-chancellors, deans, experts, scholars, government officials and doctoral candidates in the field of higher education participated in the events.
We are also honored to be Agora co-branded strategic partners with Trinity Western University (TWU) in Canada, along with University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and University of Law (ULaw), Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) in the United Kingdom. We are also in the delivery of degree and non-degree undergraduate, postgraduate, and taught & research programmes in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
We look forward to having sincere cooperation with like-minded people and institutions to meet the opportunities and challenges of global higher education in the epidemic and post-epidemic era. Leading educational innovation and promoting educational innovation together.
[1] China Association for Management of Technology (CAMOT).
[2] International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT).
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