From October 19th to 20th, a 7-member experts group headed by WANG Ying, director of Office of International Students of Beijing Institute of Technology, was entrusted by China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) to conduct on-site inspection of SDUT on the quality accreditation of study in China.
On the morning of the 19th, the on-site inspection and explanation meeting of the expert group was held in the meeting room on the second floor of the North Building of Xingyuan Hotel. Members of the expert group and school leaders LYU Chuanyi, HU Xingyu, LIU Guohua, ZHANG Xiangyun, WANG Libin, WEI Xiuting and ZHANG Jinsheng attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by ZHANG Xiangyun, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of SDUT.
LYU Chuanyi, Secretary of the Party Committee of SDUT addressed the meeting, saying that internationalization had already become a key indicator to measure the ability and level of running a university. In recent years, the Party Committee of SDUT has continuously strengthened the concept of and always adhered to the direction of education internationalization, vigorously developed study in China, and formed an international student education brand featured unique SDUT style according to the new situation and new requirements of the development of higher education. He said that the school would fully cooperate with the quality accreditation of studying in China. While doing a good job in various service guarantees, SDUT would seriously consult experts to find out the deficiencies and make up for the shortcomings, so as to build an important target university for international students and make due contributions to studying in China.
WANG Ying introduced and explained the work and requirements of on-site inspection. She said that the on-site review, as the most important part of certification, was based on reviewing the self-assessment materials through reviewing materials, field visits, course lectures, lectures, seminars and interviews, to further verify relevant data and information, to check work improvement after the self-assessment, to intuitively know and understand the work status of SDUT, and to verify or modify the preliminary impression and judgment formed by the expert group in the self-evaluation review, and then made a comprehensive and objective evaluation and judgment on the worked done about studying in China program of SDUT and proposed development suggestions and opinions.
HU Xingyu, deputy Secretary of the Party Committee,with the title of Leveraging the advantages of science and technology disciplines to produce a new high ground for international exchanges of the One Belt and One Road , introduced the achievement, existing problems and direction of efforts of studying in China of SDUT, as well as accreditation and self-evaluation, from three aspects, namely, the overview of the school, study in China and, self-evaluation and self-reform.
During the inspection, according to the relevant requirements, the expert group conducted a comprehensive review on studying in China by inspecting teaching facilities, consulting archives, in-depth classroom lectures and conducting in-depth interviews.
On the afternoon of the 20th, the on-site review and feedback meeting of the expert group was held in the meeting room on the second floor of the North Building of Xingyuan Hotel. Members of the expert group and school leaders LYU Chuanyi, HU Xingyu, LIU Guohua, ZHANG Xiangyun, WANG Libin, WEI Xiuting, YI Weiming and ZHANG Jinsheng attended the meeting. The feedback meeting was presided over by HU Xingyu.
On behalf of the expert group, WANG Ying gave feedback on the on-site review opinions. She pointed out that studying in China had developed rapidly in the past three years, with the swift growth of students with academic qualifications, and the increasingly reasonable structure, scale and country distribution of students; the international school resources were reasonably distributed and the conditions were sufficient; the comprehensive quality of the teaching staff and management team was high; the management organization for studying in China was sound, and the management and service personnel were fully equipped and in place; SDUT vigorously implemented the talent priority strategy, the introduction of international talents has achieved remarkable results and the training of high-level international students formed distinctive characteristics. The functional departments, management personnel, relevant academic schools and teachers showed a high degree of enthusiasm and participated actively, relevant functional departments cooperated closely, initially forming a linkage mechanism and playing a better role.
In view of how to carry out the next step, WANG Ying put forward opinions and suggestions from the aspects of strengthening the top-level design of studying in China, strengthening the quality of personnel training, refining the management support system of studying in China, and building a large foreign affairs work platform at the school level.
LYU Chuanyi made a speech on behalf of SDUT. In order to ensure that the feedback from the expert group can be rectified in place, and effectively promote the further implementation and deepening of the accreditation of SDUT, he required that, firstly, we should further understand the great significance of the quality accreditation of studying in China, and earnestly do a more solid and effective work in all aspects; secondly, we must be problem-oriented and effectively rectify the opinions of experts; thirdly, we should take the opportunity of quality certification to explore the law of cultivating international students and strengthen the connotation construction.
Heads of relevant functional departments of SDUT, deans and deputy deans in charge of internationalization of the academic schools, all staff of the School of International Education and some representatives of teachers and students attended the explanation meeting and feedback meeting.