Dental school signs collaboration agreements with three institutes in China

The agreements have been signed with the School of Stomatology at Capital Medical University (whose directors visited Plymouth last year); the School of Stomatology, Shandong University; and the Second Hospital (School of Clinical Medicine), also Shandong University.

All four organisations now have agreement to work together in a number of areas, including: cooperation and coordination in research and teaching, including future developments in these areas; exploring the opportunity of offer Plymouth University’s dental programmes of study to students in China; broadening the experience and increasing cultural understanding for each organisation’s personnel and students; and building on this to understand and explore future areas of cooperation.

The three Chinese schools were all drawn to working with Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry because of its current high ranking, reputation and impressive research portfolio among UK dental schools. Moves are already afoot for joint research grant applications and visits from Chinese researchers to Plymouth and one postdoctoral researcher has already worked in Plymouth for a year with a Chinese Scholarship Council fellowship. Such activity will shortly be extended to the area of education.