Chinese Education Vice Minister to Visit Microsoft, LW Institute of Technology

Dr. Xin Lu, China’s vice minister of education, will visit (LWIT) and on Tuesday as part of a delegation reerarching workforce and technical training programs for possible use in China.
 
“This is an extreme honor for the school, and our region on a whole,” Lin Zhou, associate dean of extended learning at LWIT, said in a news release. “LWIT is the only school Dr. Lu is visiting on this trip to the United States, and it is the policy her department creates that dictates higher education structure throughout China. What she learns here could have significant bearing on how the Chinese provide workforce and job skills training.”
 
Dr. Lu and her delegation of eight, including both the deputy director and division head of the Department of Technical and Adult Education within the Chinese Ministry of Education, are researching opportunities to provide technical skills to Chinese college graduates.

The Chinese delegation will spend the morning at LWIT speaking with the school’s administration and touring the nursing, dental hygiene, funeral service education, welding and machining departments.

The group will then go on to a meeting at Microsoft, followed by Boeing.

—From a LWIT news release