STUDENTS GRADUATE IN HEART OF
CHINA’S WINE GROWING REGION
Representatives from the Eastern
Institute of Technology EIT were in
attendance for the graduation of
their China partner, Qi Lu University
of Technology’s first 80 graduates of
their joint education programme.
Qi Lu University is in Jinan, the heart
of Shandong province, China’s
premier wine growing region.
EIT’s School of Viticulture and Wine
Science have been working in
collaboration on the partnership over
the last four years. Qi Lu students
have studied a customised wine
science programme developed with
EIT since September 2015. The
2015 student cohort graduated
last week with Qi Lu’s Bachelor of
Brewing Engineering (Wine Science).
The teachers from EIT have flown
12,000 km into China each year
to teach eleven specialist wine
science and viticulture courses.
Newly appointed Head of School for
Viticulture and Wine Science, Sue
Blackmore says, the students and
staff from Qi Lu feel just like family,
they are part of us”.
Eighty Qi Lu students graduated on
a warm Jinan day in a celebration
full of pomp and ceremony. Top EIT
student Tianzhou Xing was awarded
a special prize by EIT programme
coordinator Carolyn Russell.
Tianzhou achieved straight A’s from
the EIT courses.
Faculty of Commerce and
Technology Dean, Fred Koenders
was privileged to be the guest
speaker at the graduation ceremony.
He recognised that Jinan, which is
known as the City of Springs, and
Napier City have created a deep,
trusting relationship. Relationships
between EIT and Qi Lu staff
and students have formed and
friendships have developed that will
be everlasting.
EIT will be teaching five cohorts
of students in this joint education
programme.
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Staff from both EIT and Qi Lu
are also engaging in cooperative
research projects. Dean Fred
Koenders said that from the annual
review meeting held last week that
new cooperation projects are likely to
spring from this special relationship.
In addition to the joint education
programme over ten Qi Lu students
have enrolled or have applied to
enrol in EIT’s Bachelor of Wine
Science delivered at EIT Hawke’s
Bay. These students will achieve
a double degree, EIT’s Bachelor of
Wine Science and Qi Lu’s Bachelor
of Brewing Engineering.
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