由全球中国学术院（GCA）主办的以“全球教育治理”为主题的全球性峰会，于 12 月 5 日在伦敦著名的英国学术院（The British Academy）隆重举行。本次对话在此前九届成功举办的基础上，再度汇聚全球教育与科技领域的领军人物，共同探讨政策协调、国际合作、教育公平、质量提升与制度创新如何协同推动全球教育的可持续发展。
随着人工智能（AI）、大数据等新技术持续重塑教育模式与学习生态，全球教育治理正面临前所未有的挑战与机遇。本届对话围绕跨国协作、多方参与和科技赋能如何促进全球教育体系发展、实现社会公平正义并推动共同繁荣展开深入讨论。
全球中国学术院院长常向群教授表示，第十届全球中国对话“为政策制定者、学者、教育者、企业界人士及国际组织提供了一个包容性的平台，用于交流全球教育治理的新愿景、新机制与新路径。”她指出，对话旨在通过比较视角深化对不同国家教育制度与治理文化的理解，推动互学互鉴，丰富全球教育治理的理论与实践内涵。
全球中国对话是全球中国学术院的重要旗舰品牌与高端平台，学术院院士授予仪式也作为其年度标志性活动在此举行。中国文化信息协会数字文化产融工委会会长，首席生活方式设计师，幸福数字经济学第一人林天强教授当选全球中国学术院院士，并以在线方式做《人工智能时代的教育范式革命与未来定义权》主题演讲。
本届对话的主题由四个互相关联的板块构成：
治理创新与技术赋能聚焦人工智能、大数据与数字平台对治理模式的深刻影响；
教育公平、包容与质量保障探讨如何通过权益保护、科研诚信、认证体系与教师培训来维护公平与卓越；
全球教育政策与国际合作强调政策框架、国际组织的角色及跨国大学联盟和数字基础设施促进合作的方式；
教育融资与可持续发展关注多元化融资机制、国际援助，以及教育与科技、产业融合推动包容性增长和可持续发展的路径。
西交利物浦大学执行校长、英国利物浦大学副校长席酉民教授发表题为《全球思维、本土理解、国际行动：未来教育的探索》的主旨讲话。他指出，全球高等教育体系正处于结构性变革中，并以其中英双重领导经验提出若干人工智能融入高等教育的模型。
席教授强调，人工智能不仅重塑高等教育，也正在挑战整个人类社会的组织结构，并深刻改变我们对“人才”的认知。他呼吁高校亟需重新思考未来教学与学习的方式，因为 AI 将长期成为其中不可或缺的组成部分。这些深远影响需要跨部门持续反思、对话与合作，以确保高校培养适应未来的学生。
对话还邀请了教育实践者分享一线经验。教育公平蓝图 The Equity Blueprint 的创建者伦敦家长与儿童关爱机构 Every Parent & Child Every Parent & Child 的露西·罗宾 Lucy Robin 女士，展示了一个将公平包容嵌入治理体系的框架。她指出，教育不应要求学生适应制度，而应推动制度转向适应学生，这是实现真正公平的重要方向。
首次参加全球中国对话的伦敦国王学院中文教育高级讲师周宏芬博士表示，她从语言教育中的 AI 讨论中深受启发。作为语言教育者，她强调既要把握 AI 的优势，也要警惕其局限，确保“教师掌控工具，而非被工具牵着走”。她尤其赞赏剑桥大学鲁珀特·韦格里夫 Rupert Wegerif 教授关于“双重对话式教学法”的演讲，认为此次会议让不同学科背景的学者开展跨学科、跨文化对话，是难得的交流机会。
来自英国、中国、法国等国的约八十名嘉宾参加了本次盛会。与会者共同呼吁加强全球协作，应对人工智能发展对社会各方面的深刻影响。纽卡斯尔大学候任副校长兼全球中国对话组委会联席主席李利教授在闭幕致辞中宣布，第十一届全球中国对话将聚焦“人工智能与数据治理”主题。
今年恰逢“双十”重要时刻——第十届全球中国对话暨连续成功举办十届的纪念。中国驻英大使馆王起公使、英国文化委员会英国文化委员会全球教育洞察部主任亚历克西斯·布朗 Alexis Brown 博士、全球中国学术院院士马丁·雅克 Martin Jacques 教授，凯利·布朗 Kerry Brown 教授、马丁·阿尔布劳Martin Albrow教授、托尼·麦肯勒里 Tony McEnery 教授、罗兰 Laurence Roulleau-Berger 教授、大卫·帕金 David Parkin 教授和菲奥娜·摩尔 Fiona Moore 教授等分别在开幕式、闭幕式和晚宴致辞。
在茶歇、午餐和晚宴期间，大会播放了来自英国、美国、日本、韩国和中国十余位全球中国学术院院士的祝贺视频。其中特别值得一提的是，国际社会学学会主席 杰弗里·普莱尔斯Geoffrey Pleyers 在致辞中指出，“全球中国对话已成为构建知识共同体、促进相互理解，并深化我们对当代全球挑战形成共同认知的重要平台”。
A global summit themed around Governance for Global Education is held on 5th December at the prestigious British Academy in London by the Global China Academy (GCA). Following the success of nine previous Forums, the 10th Global China Dialogue (GCD X) gathers global leaders in education and technology sectors to examine how policy coordination, international cooperation, equity assurance, quality enhancement, and institutional innovation can work together to advance the sustainable development of education worldwide.
As new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data continue to reshape educational models and learning ecosystems, global education governance faces a new era of challenge and opportunity. The Dialogue addresses these transformations by exploring how cross-border collaboration, multi-stakeholder engagement, and technological empowerment can strengthen the global education, achieving social justice and fostering shared prosperity worldwide.
Prof Xiangqun Chang, President of the GCA, says that GCD X ‘offers an inclusive platform for policymakers, scholars, educators, business leaders, and international organisations to exchange insights on emerging visions, mechanisms, and pathways for global education governance.’ She adds that the Dialogue aims to provide a comparative perspective in understanding diverse national education systems and governance cultures, aiming to promote mutual learning, and enrich both theoretical and practical knowledge of global education governance.
The Global China Dialogue is an important flagship brand and high-end platform of the Global China Academy, and the ceremony for the awarding of academy fellows is also held here as its annual landmark event. Professor Lin Tianqiang, President of the Digital Culture Industry-Finance Committee of the China Culture Information Association and Chief Lifestyle Designer & Pioneer of Digital Happiness Economic, was elected as an academician of the Global China Academy and delivered a keynote speech titled "The Paradigm Revolution in Education and the Power & Right to Define the Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence" online.
The 10th GCD features centres around four interconnected themes. Governance Innovation and Technological Empowerment examines new collaborative governance models alongside the transformative impact of AI, big data, and digital platforms. Educational Equity, Inclusion, and Quality Assurance explores how rights protection, research integrity, and strengthened systems of assessment, certification, and teacher training can uphold fairness and excellence. Global Education Policy and International Cooperation focuses on policy frameworks, the roles of international organisations, and cross-border collaboration facilitated by university alliances and digital infrastructures. Finally, Education Financing and Sustainable Development highlights diverse financing mechanisms, the role of international aid, and the integration of education with technology and industry to support innovation, inclusive growth, and long-term sustainability.
Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, China, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, UK delivered a keynote speech “Think Globally, Understand Locally, Act Internationally: Exploration for Future Education’. In his address, Professor Xi outlined the structural transformation facing the global higher education system. Drawing on his leadership experience across both China and the UK, he offered a unique comparative perspective and proposed several models for integrating AI into higher education.
Professor Xi emphasised that AI not only reshaps higher education, but also challenges the organisational structures of human society more broadly, consequently transforming our understanding of “talent.” Speaking from the vantage point of senior university leadership, he argued that the higher education sector must urgently reconsider the teaching–learning process in which AI is, and will continue to be, an integral component. The profound implications of AI call for sustained reflection, dialogue, and collaboration in redesigning syllabi and curricula, ensuring that universities are preparing students for the future.
The Dialogue also featured experience-sharing from educators working in practice. Ms Lucy Robin, from Every Parent & Child and creator of The Equity Blueprint, presented a governance framework that embeds equitable inclusion through co-production, psychological safety, and cognitive diversity. Her talk highlighted how educators’ everyday actions can move education beyond equality towards true equity. The Equity Blueprint’s eight interconnected pillars shift the central question in education from “How do we make young people fit systems?” to “How do we make systems fit young people?”
Reflecting on her impressions of the conference, she noted, “I think there’s a lot about AI—not only the fantastic things it can do, but also how we need to exercise caution in applying it.” She especially enjoyed the session on language examinations, which explored choices and safe spaces are highlighted in language learning.
It was the first time Dr Hongfen Zhou, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language Education at King’s College London, attended the Global China Dialogue. She said she felt deeply inspired by the discussions on AI in language education. As a language educator, Dr Zhou emphasised the importance of understanding both the advantages and limitations of AI. While AI provides irreplaceable benefits for learners and teachers alike, she noted that educators must remain in control of the tool rather than being led by it.
She shared with the GCA journalist that she was particularly inspired by keynote speaker Professor Rupert Wegerif from the University of Cambridge, whose talk on “double dialogic pedagogy” highlights education as both the teaching of thinking through dialogue and the induction of students into participating in the long-term, powerful dialogues of culture. “The conference offers a great opportunity for people from different disciplines to come together and build transdisciplinary and transcultural dialogue,” she said.
With around eighty attendees from the UK, China, France and several other countries, the tenth Global China Dialogue in 2025 concluded successfully with a call for strengthened global collaboration in addressing the timely issues of AI and its impact on societies worldwide. Professor Li Li, Incoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University and Co-Chair of the Organising Committee of the Global China Dialogue, announced at the conclusion of her closing remarks that the 11th Global China Dialogue will focus on the theme “AI and Data Governance.”
This year marks a special “double ten” milestone—the 10th Global China Dialogue and the successful completion of ten consecutive Dialogues. Minister Wang Qi of the Chinese Embassy in the UK, Dr Alexis Brown, Director of Global Education Insights at the British Council, and GCA Fellows Professor Martin Jacques, Professor Kerry Brown, Professor Martin Albrow, Professor Tony McEnery, Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Professor David Parkin, and Professor Fiona Moore delivered remarks at the opening session, closing session, and the dinner respectively.
During the coffee breaks, lunch, and the ceremony dinner, congratulatory video messages from more than a dozen GCA Fellows from the UK, the US, Japan, Korea, and China were played. Among them, Geoffrey Pleyers, President of the International Sociological Association, remarked that the “the Global China Dialogue has become a space for building a community of knowledge and mutual understanding, and for deepening our collective grasp of the challenges of our times.”