On 10 March, a delegation led by Sunny Yang, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Australia, visited SCUT. Xu Yong, Vice President of the university, hosted a meeting with the visitors at the Guangzhou International Campus, where they engaged in substantive discussions on topics including joint student training programmes, academic research collaboration between faculty members, and Sino-foreign cooperative education initiatives.

Xu Yong outlined the academic achievements of SCUT in recent years, highlighting the university’s particular strengths in engineering, chemistry and materials science. He reviewed the long-standing collaborative achievements between the two institutions since 2008 and emphasised that both sides should further pool their resources to advance high-level cooperation in teaching and research.

Discussion session

Sunny Yang expressed his gratitude for the warm reception extended by the university, highlighting Monash University’s distinctive educational approach and internationalisation strategy, and sharing the university’s experience in establishing seven overseas campuses in countries such as Malaysia. Sunny Yang stated that Monash University attaches great importance to its partnership with SCUT and looks forward to deepening practical cooperation between the two institutions in areas such as teaching, research and student exchanges, promoting the two-way flow of students on a full-programme basis, expanding foundation programmes, and exploring new models of joint education.

This visit has laid a solid foundation for deeper and broader strategic cooperation between the two universities in the future. Representatives from the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, the Office of Global Affairs at the Guangzhou International Campus, the School of Environment and Energy, the School of Civil Engineering and Transport, and the School of Continuing Education attended the exchange.