Sino-Finland Education Network: Building Up the Bridge between China and Finland from FERC’s Perspective

Dr. LIU BaocunInstitute of International and Comparative Education,

Beijing Normal Universityliubaocun@bnu.edu.cn

Network

Why cooperate with Finland?

What we have done?

Towards a higher level

New challenges and problems

Why cooperate with Finland?

Finland

Forest

Nokia ?

Angry Bird

Education

Innovation

The Finnish Way of educational

change should be encouraging

to those who have found the

path of competition, choices,

test-based accountability , and

performance-based pay to be a

dead end. The future of Finnish

education described above can

moreover offer an alternative

means to customized learning

( Sahlberg, 2011).

The Finnish Model ?

Low workload.

High achievement.

Equity.

Diversity.

Personaliztion.

Inclusiveness.

What have we done in education cooperation?

BNU has already been involved in CEREC’s

activities through a variety of projects and individual

collaborations. 1. Research cooperation: The Sino-Finnish Higher Education Forum ( On

October 21 last year, Beijing Normal University continued to send

representatives to attend the Third Sino-Finnish Higher Education Forum.)

2. Teacher Exchanges: Professor Wang Yingjie , Professor Liu Baocun of Beijing

Normal University went to give lectures in succession and were highly

welcomed in the local. Professor Seppo Hölttä, the director of higher

education center in the University of Tampere, was hired as a visiting

professor of Institute of International and Comparative Education in Beijing

Normal University.

3. Student exchanges: two BNU doctors visited University of Tampere as visiting

scholars in succession.

4. EU project: Beijing Normal University and the University of Tampere were

involved in the Erasmus Mundus Action 1 and Erasmus Mundus Action 2

projects respectively.

5. CIMO China Cooperation Fund: a two-year "Sino-Finnish joint training

curriculum development projects for higher education managers.“

6. The Africa Project in Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of

Education

7. Doctoral project of the Academy of Finland

• Finnish Education Research Centre was

established in the International and

Comparative Education Research Institute

(IICE)at Beijing Normal University (BNU) on

October 28, 2013.

A bridge and a platform between the two

countries in the field of education.

— The Role of FERC

Missions of FERC

to deepen the mobility and cooperation in

the field of education between China and

Finland.

to increase the research on Finnish

education.

to promote the Finnish success in

education.

Key tasks of FERC

To conduct research on Chinese and Finnish education;

To provide policy consultations on Sino-Finland education

cooperation and facilitate educational policy dialogues between

the two countries;

To experiment joint educational and degree programs in the

field of education and suggest appropriate models for joint

education and degrees in other disciplines;

To develop Sino-Finland educational training curriculum and

quality assurance standards;

To organize high level Sino-Finland education conferences;

New opportunities, challenges and problems in Sino-Finland education cooperation

New opportunities

Best bilateral relation between two countries

A new wave of education reform

Increasing demand for teaching training

Increasing number of Chinese student going abroad

More investment in education both by the state and

family

New challenges

Who are the best? ：World-class education criterion

and competition among education systems

Global education are consuming Chinese

international students and in-service teachers.

New problems

Disorder in Sino-Finland cooperation

Lack of a network and coordination

Lack of systematic research

Towards a higher level of Sino-Finland cooperation

Sino-Finland Education Network: Building Up the

Bridge between China and Finland

Sino-Finland Education Network: FERC plus

CEREC provides a solid platform and

network for cooperation and coordination.

A network for all.

FERC

CERCE

This is Finnish Education

Tell the Chinese the true story of Finnish

education.

Develop a brand and standard in teacher

training

Localization of Finnish experiences

Thank You

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Sino-Finland Education Network