Headway has been made in research at the School of Education this year, with seven research achievements have been awarded, breaking a record high.

The Eighth International Conference on World-Class Universities was held in October 2019. The conference theme was “World-Class Universities: Global Trends and Institutional Models”. 

On November 23rd, the grand ceremony for the establishment of School of Education at SJTU and the seminar on "Major Theoretical and Practical Issues on Reform and Development of China's Higher Education" were held at Xuhui Campus. Leaders from Ministry of Education, Shanghai Municipal People's Government and SJTU participated in the seminar, including CHEN Qun, deputy mayor of Shanghai Municipal People's Government; LIN Huiqing, former vice minister of the Ministry of Education and vice president of China Association of Higher Education; and YANG Zhenbin, the Party secretary of the CPC Shanghai Jiao Tong University Committee.

On March 25, 2021, the School of Education (SOE) celebrated graduation for Class of 2021. This year, Bon Voyage Graduation Ceremony aims to teach graduates of SOE the last lesson.

Due to concerns over the novel coronavirus pneumonia, we are sorry to announce that the EHD-1 conference is postponed to a later date, with a specific time to be decided. The deadline for proposal submission is extended as well. Please follow the updates on the conference website and pay attention to the new timeline.

The Center for Education and Human Development, Graduate School of Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is proud to announce the first International Conference on Education and Human Development (EHD-1) to be held on May 16-17, 2020. EHD-1 features the theme of "Pioneering Higher Education Innovation: Teaching and Learning in Research Universities".

International relations are shifting as multilateral trade and cooperation are being renegotiated between countries, such as the US and the UK, and trade blocks. Meanwhile, China is launching the New Silk Road, or One Belt One Road Initiative, that could potentially span and integrate major parts of the world across Eurasia. Based on the international research project on the New Silk Road, this course will explore how these changing relationships are affecting academic cooperation and what opportunities this opens for universities, students, and researchers.

Philip G. Altbach visited the school in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and delivered an academic lecture on global trends in higher education on Oct. 18, 2019. The school's faculty and students attended this lecture.

The New Silk Road: Connecting students and universities from China and Europe Summer School was held at Utrecht University, Netherlands from August 19 to 23, 2019. Co-organized by Utrecht University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the summer school was aimed to explore how the Belt and Road Initiative of China affects cooperation between Chinese and European universities.

The School's 7th International Advisory Committee Meeting was held on October 15, 2019 . The committee members, Prof. Philip Altbach, Boston College, Global tertiary education expert Dr. Jamil Salmi, Prof. Marijk van der Wende, Utrecht University, Prof. Gerard A. Postiglione, University of Hong Kong, Prof. HUANG Futao, Hiroshima University, as well as our schools' faculty attended the meeting.

Prof. LIU Niancai attended the IREG 2019 conference, the annual conference of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. The IREG 2019 conference was held from May 8 to 10 in the University of Bologna, Italy. Prof. LIU chaired the first session of the IREG 2019 conference titled “Impact of Rankings on Higher Education and Public Policy”.

The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is pleased to announce that the 8th International Conference on World-Class Universities (WCU-8) will take place through October 15th to 17th, 2019 in Shanghai, China. The general theme of WCU-8 is "World-Class Universities: Globalization and National Models".