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The University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham was established in the UK City of Nottingham in 1881. It received its Royal Charter in 1948 and celebrates its Diamond Jubilee in 2008.

Jinhua Vocational and Technical College was founded in 1994 and was established on the basis of Jinhua Institute of Technology. It inherits the vocational education traditions of six national and provincial key vocational schools, including Zhejiang Agricultural Machinery School, Jinhua Trade and Economic School, Jinhua Normal School (including the original Yiwu Normal School), Jinhua Agricultural School, and Jinhua Health School, with a history of 102 years. Currently, it is the first vocational college approved by Zhejiang Province with the largest scale, the most professional categories, and the first to pass the excellent evaluation of talent cultivation in higher vocational colleges. It is a national demonstration higher vocational college project establishment and construction unit, a national exemplary organization of vocational education, a civilized unit in Zhejiang Province, a member unit of the national joint meeting of principals of higher vocational colleges, a standing director unit of China Higher Vocational and Technical Education Research Association Executive director unit of the Industry, University, and Research Branch of the Chinese Association of Higher Education.

Ningbo Vocational and Technical College was officially approved and established by the Ministry of Education in 1999. It is a full-time comprehensive higher education institution engaged in higher vocational and technical education, and is one of the first batch of national demonstration higher vocational colleges to be established. The college is located in the Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone, adjacent to Beilun Port, covering an area of nearly 50 hectares, with a building area of over 200000 square meters. The college has 10 departments (colleges), 1 education group, 10 major categories and 43 majors, covering majors closely related to local industries such as electromechanical, mold, computer, electronic information, biochemistry, logistics, etc.

Taizhou University is located in the emerging coastal city of Taizhou. It faces the sea to the east, connects to Yandang to the south, and leans against Tiantai to the north. With beautiful scenery, outstanding talents, and convenient transportation, it is an ideal place for academic and self-cultivation. Taizhou University is a comprehensive ordinary university approved by the Ministry of Education and jointly managed and built by Zhejiang Province and Taizhou City. It has a long history of education. Its predecessor was Taizhou Teachers' College established with the approval of the State Council in 1978, and its educational source can be traced back to the Simplified Normal School of Santai Middle School in 1907.

Zhejiang Shuren University was founded in 1984 and is one of the earliest full-time private universities in China since the reform and opening up, which has been approved and recognized by the Ministry of Education for academic qualifications; In 2003, it was upgraded to an undergraduate institution. Since its establishment, the school has fully utilized the advantages of the private system, adhered to institutional and institutional innovation, and actively explored the reform and development models of higher education under the new situation. In the 25 year process of running the school, the scale of the school has continuously expanded, the quality of teaching has continuously improved, the scope of education has continuously expanded, and the social reputation has been increasingly improved, paving a unique path for the development of private universities. Recently, Zhou Guofu, Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), pointed out during his visit to the school that "making big achievements" is a product of reform and opening up, an innovation in institutional mechanisms, and a model of private creative teaching assistants. It reflects the connotation of the CPPCC culture and the school's educational philosophy of "seeking what is suitable and applying what is learned".

Zhejiang Wanli College is a new type of university that has undergone management mode and operational mechanism reform on the basis of a provincial-level ordinary university with over 50 years of educational history. The school is located in Ningbo, covering an area of over 1400 acres and a building area of 650000 square meters. It is divided into campuses such as Qianhu and Huilong. The campus has beautiful scenery and complete teaching facilities, and has been awarded honorary titles such as "Civilized Campus", "Safe Campus", "Green School", and "Public Security and Safety Demonstration Unit" at the provincial level. The school is a pilot unit for the cultivation of applied talents in journalism and communication in local universities nationwide and a pilot unit for the cultivation of applied talents in computer science in Zhejiang Province. It currently has 2 national characteristic majors, 1 national teaching team, 1 national entrepreneurship education experimental zone, 1 provincial top priority discipline, 3 provincial-level key disciplines, 6 provincial-level key majors, 11 provincial-level high-quality courses, 5 municipal key disciplines, and 7 municipal key majors 1 city talent training base and 1 city social science research base. Undertaking the Ministry of Education's New Century Higher Education Teaching Reform Project, multiple textbooks have been listed as "National Tenth Five Year Plan Textbooks".

Lishui College is an ordinary university at the undergraduate level. Its predecessor was the Chuzhou Normal School founded in 1907, which later went from Chuzhou Normal School to Lishui Normal School. In 1977, the Lishui Branch of Zhejiang Normal University was established, and in 1978, it was approved by the State Council to be named Lishui Normal College. The school has undergone several mergers. In August 2000, Zhejiang Minority Normal School was merged into Lishui Normal College. In March 2003, the provincial government approved the merger of Lishui Normal College and Lishui Vocational and Technical College (Lishui Vocational and Technical College was formed by the merger of Lishui Industrial School and Lishui Agricultural School), and based on this, established a undergraduate level Lishui College. The school was upgraded and renamed Lishui College with the approval of the Ministry of Education in May 2004. In March 2007, the Medical School of Lishui College was established based on Lishui Health School. The school mainly undertakes the task of training and delivering various high-level professionals for the economic and social development of Lishui City and Zhejiang Province. It is a civilized unit in Zhejiang Province and a exemplary organization in the construction of national spiritual civilization.

Taizhou Vocational and Technical College was founded in 1999 and is a full-time regular higher education institution organized by the government. It is an excellent institution for evaluating the level of talent cultivation in vocational colleges nationwide. The school is located in the central area of Taizhou, an emerging modern port city, covering an area of 660.88 acres and a building area of 226225 square meters. The educational conditions are excellent, and the teaching infrastructure is complete. The library has a collection of 850000 books, 2296 teaching computers, a total value of 40 million yuan in teaching equipment, and a total value of 390 million yuan in school assets. The school has established 100 on-site training centers and 86 off campus training bases, including CNC technology and application as the national CNC technology shortage talent training base, which has been supported by special funds allocated by the central and provincial finance.

Wenzhou Vocational and Technical College is a full-time vocational college established with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 1999. It is led and managed by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and hosted by the Wenzhou Municipal People's Government. At present, it is a national demonstrative higher vocational construction college, a national exemplary organization of vocational education, an excellent school for the evaluation of the talent cultivation level of national higher vocational colleges, and a director unit of Zhejiang Higher Vocational Education Research Association.

Zhejiang Industry and Trade Vocational and Technical College is located in Wenzhou City, a provincial-level public full-time higher education institution. It is one of the first batch of national excellent vocational colleges in Zhejiang Province, and was named one of the first demonstration vocational colleges in Zhejiang Province in 2007. The college now covers an area of more than 600 mu, with nearly 7000 students and 284 full-time teachers. It has 10 teaching units, including the Department of Light Industry, the Department of information engineering, the Department of Automotive and Electromechanical Engineering, the Department of Electronic Engineering, the Department of Economics and Trade, the Department of Management, the Department of Foundation, the Adult Education College, Zhejiang Industry and Trade Technician College, Ruili Electromechanical College, and so on. The college has non education industry (economic entities) such as Wenzhou Metallurgy Group and Wenzhou Metallurgy Real Estate Development Company, which has realized the rational utilization and optimized allocation of the college's educational resources and non educational resources, and formed a talent training model of school enterprise integration, production learning integration, and learning doing integration. The college has established and implemented the educational philosophy of "based on the market and combining industry with education" and the educational philosophy of "strengthening practice and personality oriented", with the goal of creating a national demonstration vocational college and implementing a brand strategy, taking the path of connotation based characteristic development, and achieving significant results in education. While completing the task of full-time higher vocational and technical talent education, the college has formed an integrated higher vocational education base with higher vocational education as the main body, covering vocational training, vocational appraisal, vocational guidance, and vocational introduction, based on market demand.

Zhijiang College of Zhejiang University of Technology is an independent college approved by the People's Government of Zhejiang Province in 1999, organized by Zhejiang University of Technology, and confirmed by the Ministry of Education in 2004. It is an executive director unit of the China Association of Independent Colleges and a vice chairman unit of the Independent College Special Committee of the National Higher Education Teaching and Research Association. The college is located in the Zhijiang National Tourism Resort in Hangzhou, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery and elegant environment. The building area of the school building is 160000 square meters, and the library area is 13000 square meters. It has a collection of over 450000 books of various types and shares over 3.7 million books (including e-books) from Zhejiang University of Technology. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is over 46 million yuan, with 52 laboratories of various types and nearly 1800 teaching computers.

Wenzhou Vocational College of Science and Technology is established based on the Wenzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Wenzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences was formed in February 2000 by the merger of the original Wenzhou Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Wenzhou Vegetable Science Research Institute, and Wenzhou Agricultural School. It is also known as the "Wenzhou Agricultural School in Zhejiang Province" and is an institution that integrates teaching, research, demonstration, and promotion. It is the only agricultural research and teaching unit in the country that combines both.