Building bridges between Europe and China to strengthen social work field education: preliminary findings from Guangdong Province

Supervision of Chinese social work students during field practice: Harmonising a student-focused, egalitarian approach with traditional teaching and learning

“…The study reported here was part of a 3-year (2017–2021) Erasmus+ Programme part-funded by the European Union, entitled ‘Building Bridges between Europe and China to Strengthen the Social Work Profession (hereafter the BUIBRI project)’; it was extended to 4 years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Details of contextual information about the BUIBRI project and the training programme for supervisors delivered within the project can be found in Lei et al’s (2021) article. We present here the findings from focus groups with supervisors from three regions (A, B and C) in China who had participated in the supervision training programmes provided through the BUIBRI project and focus groups with students who were supervised by the supervisors involved in the training.…”

Accuracy analysis of university authority evaluation based on Chinese university data + neural algorithm

“…"Data-driven schools, analysis and transformation of education" has become the main goal of education reform and development in the era of big data. Colleges and universities fully and timely grasp the information in the field of education, deeply excavate the potential value of educational data, and vigorously develop Educational Data Mining (EDM) has become an inevitable way to reform education and improve the quality of higher education personnel training [4]. Big data can realize the collection, processing and analysis of a large amount of high -quality educational data, so as to provide decision support for teaching work.…”

Making sense of the social work field education liaison role and impacts of neoliberalism: An invitation to reflect and reimagine!

“…However, it is acknowledged that this role may look different, be labelled differently or not exist in social work courses from other countries around the world. For example, Lei, et al, (2021) uses the language of supervisor for both the agency and the university support person. While there is a pleather of literature exploring the professional supervisor role within placement less attention has been afforded to the liaison role.…”