On Practice and Experience of Higher Education Management in BC Province of Canada

Abstract

A group of 20 people under the program of 2016 Yunnan Province Higher Education Senior Administrative Personnel Overseas Study went to Langara College for 3-month study in Vancouver of Canada from 18 September to 18 December in 2016. Through careful study, understanding and grasping the basic national conditions and multiculturalism of Canada, the concept, system, policy and operation of higher education in BC, we have raised our understanding of the characteristics of higher education in western countries such as Canada and the operation & management of colleges and universities, activated our reflections on further promoting the development of higher education in Yunnan Province and improvement of the quality of personnel training. Team participants said that they have broadened their horizons through learning, renewed their ideas, enriched their knowledge, established confidence, obtain many gains and changes, and had a positive effect on improving themselves and even the work of their own institutions. Study-Organizing Situation The learning group is composed of 13 colleges and universities and the management cadres of higher vocational colleges. The study period from September 18, 2016 to December 18, 2016, lasted 3 months. During the period, the main study covers 14 special topics such as Canada and BC higher education management system, BC transfer credit system, university strategic planning, university leadership strategy, 7 colleges and universities, 5 cultural and art venues and 1 aboriginal Community. The whole learning took class lectures, guest lectures, field visits as the main forms. These studies made the members of the whole regiment had a better understanding of the development history, social and cultural characteristics, education system and so on of Canada and BC, and personally experienced the development of Canadian customs, social economy and culture, citizens' higher overall quality and advanced social governance philosophy. At the same time, we also have some understanding and thinking about the similarities and differences between the two countries, Yunnan province and BC province higher education management system, teaching ideas, management ways, etc. Basic Facts about Langara College Located in Vancouver City of Canada and founded in 1965, Langara College has more than 400 full-time teachers and 8,000 full-time students, and more than one tenth of these students belong to international students from over 50 countries in the world. Among 8,000 full-time students, 25% of them mainly take 31 kinds of optional diploma or certificate courses which cover the fields of business, computer science, software development and application, humanity, service, applied art or communication, etc., and 75% of them are studying first-year and second-year courses. All these college credit-transfer courses have made Langara College the one that could provide most quantity of these kinds of courses in Canada. If students are able to complete the first two-year basic courses in this college, then through ...