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Welcome to The Sino-British College.
Thank you for showing an interest in the Sino-British (University) College (SBC). After nearly two years as Principal, I feel we are now moving rapidly towards creating a genuine cross-cultural international educational environment as envisaged in the original blueprint for SBC.
At the end of this year we will be producing our very first graduates in Engineering and Events Management. This year therefore marks a significant milestone in our development as we strive to grow as an international university college, producing high quality graduates ready and able to meet the demands of an increasingly international workplace in China and abroad. |
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With support from USST and the 9 partner universities in the UK, SBC is pioneering the use and integration of quality overseas educational resources with a range of globally recognised UK universities. The Sino-British College is committed to providing students with considerable variety in terms of courses and degree awarding institutions of the highest international standards at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Our aim is to develop a global village where Chinese and international students will integrate and build relationships for the future and the arrival this year of 50 students from over 20 countries and regions is the first step towards creating a truly international student community. Using the experience gained here at SBC and with our UK partners, they'll become ambassadors in Sino-Foreign relations. We are confident SBC graduates will be perfectly equipped to share their knowledge of contemporary China with the outside world, and also share their overseas experience here in China.
The Career Services provided at The Sino-British College are very active in ensuring our students develop close links with the domestic and international public and private sectors through internships, placements and from this year they will assist with full-time employment and advice about further study, professional or academic. We are fully committed to helping our students become highly successful professionals with a modern international outlook.
The UK is widely acknowledged as having one of the world's best university systems. SBC offers degree programmes from several of the UK's leading universities. Two of our partners, Sheffield and Leeds, are listed in the top 100 International Universities by the Times Higher Education Rankings 2009. The founding British partner universities of SBC, working with USST, set the very highest international standards in both teaching and research. Here in Shanghai, we employ over 80 international teachers to maintain these standards. The continuing commitment of our UK partners will continue to guarantee substantial and up-to-date leading edge educational resources and know-how for the further successful development of The Sino-British College.
With increasingly close communication in the areas of politics, business and culture, the co-operation between China and the UK is going from strength to strength. The Sino-British College has developed a new, innovative multi-university model for future strategic co-operation in higher education between China and the UK and between China and the rest of the world especially as our international student community (full-time and exchange students) grows.
Although only a young institution, we have made considerable progress over the four years of our existence and especially over the last two years. We have raised the quality of the students through higher entrance requirements and raised the quality of the staff and the facilities. However, we need to keep improving to provide great value for money and also to produce successful, socially concerned global citizens who we hope will make their country, SBC proud and also to make parents proud.
We look forward to receiving you (parents and potential students) as visitor or better still as SBC students. Thank you again for considering SBC as the place to study.
Professor Ian Gow OBE MA PhD FRSA
Principal and CEO
The Sino-British College
Professor Ian Gow OBE was appointed Principal of the Sino-British College, USST on 1st January 2009. He was until recently Executive Dean of Bristol Business School and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England. From 2003 to 2007, he was Provost (Executive President) and CEO of the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China – China's first independent foreign university campus under the 2003 legislation. He is a Professor of Asian Business and former Vice-President (Asia) of the University of Nottingham.
He was awarded the Camelia Award from the Municipal Government of Ningbo and the West Lake Award from the Province of Zhejiang (pop 56 million) for outstanding contribution to higher education and has been appointed International Adviser to the Ningbo Municipal Education Bureau from 2007. Professor Gow was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List (2007) for his services to British Higher Education in China.
He was Dean of the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) (1998-2003). He is a former Deputy Principal, University of Stirling and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield and was Head of Management Studies at both these institutions concurrently with Director of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies (Stirling) and Chairman of the School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield).
Professor Gow holds a PhD in Japanese Studies and has published in both Japanese and English on Japanese Business and Japanese Defence Policy.
He has strongly supported the development of Chinese Studies and Sino-Chinese relations and was responsible for the establishment of the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield and was the founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has served as a member of the HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council England) Committee on Chinese Studies and was the lead academic on HEFCE's Sino-UK Management of Change Project.
He holds Distinguished Professorships from Tongjii University, Wanli University and Hunan University in China and is a special adviser to the President of Hunan University. He has also has been a visiting professor at Tokyo and Saitama universities in Japan and a member of the UK–Japan 21 Group.
Professor Gow served as a member of the UK Government's Office of Science and Technology's Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Committee and was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council's Pacific Asia Project. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Arts and Commerce and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Linguists.
