The educational technical assistance project to aid South Sudan opens a new chapter, passing on Chinese educational experience to South Sudanese principals
The education technical assistance project in South Sudan is my country’s first comprehensive education foreign aid project. Recently, the opening ceremony of the training course for South Sudanese principals, teaching supervisors and educational managers under the "Second Phase of Educational Technical Assistance Project to South Sudan" undertaken by Shanghai Education Press was held in Shanghai. 68 South Sudanese students attended the opening ceremony. The holding of this opening ceremony represents the opening of a new chapter for the educational technical assistance project in South Sudan.
This time South Sudanese people came to China for training. The implementing unit, Shanghai Education Press, hired outstanding teachers from Shanghai for them, prepared the most suitable courses, and arranged various activities such as exchanges with teachers and students from Shanghai schools. At the opening ceremony, Miao Hongcai, president of Shanghai Education Press, said that he hoped that through this one-month training and learning, the students could bring Chinese educational theories, educational experience, and educational knowledge back to South Sudan, and combine it with South Sudan’s educational practice to contribute to South Sudan’s education. Sudan produces more and better talents.
Professor Chen Xiangdong of East China Normal University, on behalf of the Chinese education expert team of the project team, said that the Chinese education expert team can help an emerging country expand its future hopes and make corresponding contributions to promoting the friendship between China and South Sudan. Such work is very valuable. value.
"The compilation of teaching materials for this project has brought together quite a lot of Shanghai educational concepts and educational characteristics. In the preparation process of this training, the project team also drew on rich Chinese educational experience and the latest global educational achievements, hoping that through This training can pass on these concepts, experiences, characteristics and achievements to colleagues in the education sector in South Sudan, strengthen mutual exchanges and promote mutual learning and integration," said Zhou Weili, Vice President of Shanghai Century Publishing Group.
On December 6, 2021, the second phase of the China-aided education technology project in South Sudan was launched in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Shanghai Education Press, with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, combines many years of practical experience and theoretical exploration in China’s educational development, and the current educational status of South Sudan, provides training courses for South Sudan education experts, and actively contributes more to South Sudan’s education. Much Chinese wisdom and strength have helped South Sudan achieve its development goals of “new country, new education”. Zeng Huacheng, deputy director of the Bureau of International Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, hopes that all trainees in the training class will cherish this training opportunity, have in-depth exchanges and discussions with Chinese educators, and provide timely feedback on the teaching content of the training course, so as to achieve maximum effectiveness from this training.