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World-Renowned Hotel Group — InterContinental Hotels Group Visits Cogdel Education Group to Explore a New Paradigm for Global

Date：2025-12-4 Times：241

In today's world, global industries are undergoing profound transformations. The imbalance between supply and demand of targeted talents has become a core pain point restricting the high-quality development of industries. This requires education to move beyond simple talent delivery and towards an "ecological community" deeply bound to industries. In its exploration of new paths for talent cultivation, Cogdel Education Group has actively promoted a new paradigm for the global "talent supply chain".

On December 2nd, Mr. Yang Bin, General Manager of voco Hotel under InterContinental Hotels Group, visited Cogdel Education Group. Mr. Shi Min, Director/Acting President of Cogdel Education Group, along with the core team, received the delegation. The two parties discussed the path of integrated development between education and industry.

The Industrial Significance Behind a Cross-Border Dialogue: "Education-Industry Community of Shared Future"

During the dialogue, while affirming Cogdel Education Group's achievements and philosophy, Mr. Yang Bin expressed the urgent demand of the current hotel industry for targeted mid-to-high-end talents, and hoped to carry out in-depth cooperation with professional educational institutions. This coincides with Cogdel Education Group's direction of building an "ecological community" deeply bound to industries.

Mr. Shi Min stated: "This meeting is not an ordinary inspection and exchange, but another new exploration by Cogdel Education Group to move from the simple matching of talent cultivation and supply-demand to building an 'education-industry community of shared future' with the industrial side through vocational education as the carrier."

Founded in 1777 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is a world-leading hotel management group. It owns internationally renowned brands such as InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, voco, Six Senses, Regent, and Kimpton.

Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Cogdel Education Group's Strategy: How to Build the Core Hub of the "Talent Supply Chain"
1. Industrial Dimension: From "Connecting with Industries" to "Defining Ecosystems", Building a Four-Dimensional Empowerment Matrix
Facing changes, Cogdel Education Group has not limited itself to passive responses, but has taken the initiative to deepen its layout in core industrial tracks, including modern hotel management, big health, artificial intelligence, and emerging manufacturing. Today, Cogdel Education Group has evolved from a traditional "talent provider" to an "integrator of industrial and educational resources" and a "co-creator of future skill standards".
Taking the hotel management field as an example, cooperation is not only about talent delivery or meeting current job demands, but about building a virtuous cycle of "industrial demand - educational adaptation - industrial upgrading" based on feeding back industrial technology iteration and service upgrading. Exploring the path of cooperation with InterContinental Hotels Group will solve industry pain points and drive industry upgrading and operational innovation.
2. Educational Dimension: Three-in-One Dual-Channel Model to Open Up the Closed Loop of Global Talent Flow
In response to enterprises' core demands for high-level, diversified, and international talents, Cogdel Education Group has built a borderless talent cultivation closed loop with its unique "Three-in-One" school-running model, realizing the maximum release of talent value:
Three-in-One School-Running Model: Firstly, continuously sending students to pursue further studies overseas to cultivate high-end talents with international perspectives. Secondly, introducing high-quality overseas courses and certifications (such as European hotel management, German dual-system education) to provide cost-effective immersive international education locally, cultivating localized international talents with strong cultural adaptability. Thirdly, leveraging the "Belt and Road" Initiative to export Chinese vocational education standards and technologies to countries along the route, and attract overseas students to study in China, realizing the integration of introduction and cultivation, and reserving key talents for global industrial cooperation.
Domestic and Overseas Employment Dual-Channel: Students can rely on their international skills to gain a high starting point advantage in domestic industries and multinational enterprises; or through the "Belt and Road" network and international cooperation, access overseas internships and employment to become international talents. The dual-channel and diversified development paths effectively expand career prospects.
3. Supply-Demand Dimension: From "Internship and Employment" to "Full-Lifecycle Human Resource Management"
As a leader in China's international education, Cogdel Education Group has accumulated not only rich teaching and management experience over 28 years, but also a vast amount of student growth data and industrial resource precipitation. Cogdel Education Group is committed to building a "cloud-based talent supply and demand platform" that subverts the traditional talent matching model: integrating students' on-campus learning data, enterprises' real-time job competency models, and predictions of industrial technology evolution to create accurate talent portraits for each student, plan personalized skill improvement paths, and provide support for on-the-job alumni's lifelong learning and career advancement.
This initiative transforms education from one-time campus training to full-lifecycle value management of individual careers. This model not only safeguards students' long-term development, but also provides enterprises with a stable and predictable flow of high-quality talents, truly solving the dilemma of difficulty in recruiting, retaining, and cultivating talents.
Strategic Handshake to Usher in the Era of "New Industry-Education Integration": Building the Core Hub of the "Talent Supply Chain"
This dialogue with InterContinental Hotels Group is a microcosm of Cogdel Education Group's efforts to connect with industries and explore a new paradigm for the global "talent supply chain". As a leading international education institution, beyond the hotel industry, Cogdel Education Group has extensively carried out cooperation and exchanges with many industry-leading brands, continuously expanding the boundaries of integration between education and industry.

Vigorously developing vocational education is a major strategic goal of Cogdel Education Group. In the future, we will give full play to the group's advantages in resource integration and platform connection, join hands with well-known domestic and foreign institutions and leading industrial enterprises to build an in-depth strategic alliance based on data sharing, standard co-development, investment sharing, and value co-creation. We will accurately grasp talent demands synchronized with the times, introduce world-advanced vocational education models and standards, promote the innovation of new industry-education integration models, and create a new flagship for high-end international applied technical talents in the new era!