On the morning of October 13, the Overseas Further Study Affairs Promotion Meeting was held in the Meeting Room on the first floor of the Executive Building at Gengdan Institute. Vice-President Xu Fei, President Assistant Tian Ye, deans of the Institute colleges, liaison officers for international affairs, relevant teachers from the Office for Teaching Affairs and all members from the Office for International Communication attended this meeting, which was chaired by President Assistant Tian Ye.

At first, Vice-President Xu Fei introduced to attendees the further study circumstances in the past years of the Institute, who recognized the very results achieved in this regard at the previous stage while putting forward the working targets and tasks concerning the further study affairs of graduates of 2024 at college levels of the Institute according to the main target for further study of the Institute as a whole in the years to come and to the specific situations of the Institute colleges. President Xu further emphasized that following the Gengdan Institute of the Beijing University of Technology Working Methods for Managing Students in Preparation for the Postgraduate Entrance Examination issued in particular by the Institute last year—which is geared towards actively promoting the overall progression of further study affairs—the Institute colleges are hoped to realize the 2024 further study main target as planned together, based on the current grade achieved so far.

Subsequently, the Office for International Communication Director Wang Xiaoyu reported on the important work and particular precautions with regard to the recent overseas further study affairs. She began her introduction by talking about the deadline, admissions policy, application material, etc. for overseas postgraduate education, while putting forward very suitable courses of action and suggestions for all first-year to fourth-year students according to the questionnaires filled when entering the Institute by the fourth-year students of 2020 and students of other years and to the most recent overseas study trend. As far as Gengdan Institute is concerned, meanwhile, she also explained to teachers attending the meeting the features of the current collaborative Master’s curriculum, the overall rankings of collaborating colleges and universities and their relevant application requirements.

At the end of the meeting, President Assistant Tian Ye made a summary. He mentioned that since internationalized development is one of the academic features of Gengdan Institute, in the future the Institute would promote its general work on overseas further study by fanning it out from a point. He hopes that in the future the Institute colleges would communicate closely with the Office for International Communication, so as to work as a single force to jointly provide quality academic support and further study services for all students at Gengdan Institute.

Contributed by the Office for International Communication