On October 18th, Mr. Ben Chen, director of international office of University of Bolton, UK, together with another two colleges visited HUAT. At the meeting, Ms. Ma Xun, director of international cooperation and exchange office reviewed the achievement of the joint program between the two universities. She expressed her thanks to UoB for sending several professors and other program managers to HUAT. As exchange, HUAT also sent 12 teachers as visiting scholars and three groups of students to join the summer school at UoB. All these bilateral activities brought about significant impact on HUAT in improving the level of internationalization, teaching, research and talents cultivation.
Ms. Jin Yang, director of the joint program gave a brief introduction about the students in the program and their study. She also pointed out some problems that needed to be solved by the effort of both sides. Ms. Zheng Dongli made a brief account of the preparation work of the students going to studying at UoB. As for language problem, the guests suggested that, besides teaching in class, it be solved by other outside classroom activities such as communication with English teachers, frequent language tests, summer school etc.
In the afternoon, Mr. Chen and his colleges also had an interview with 180 students in the program, sharing studying and living experience of students in UoB with them and answered some questions related to university and visa application. Professor Geng Junfeng, a doctoral tutor at the Institute of Materials at UoB, who gives lectures to the Junior students at this period of time, had also provided suggestions to the students. After the interview, the guests also visited some labs, research centers and students’ innovation centers.
