The school of international education, Shanghai university of finance and economics, has enrolled its fifth year of British higher education diploma programme. In June 2006 and June 2007, the college conducted two telephone interviews with students and parents of the class of 2003 who had studied abroad. They generally agreed that the teaching mode of the UK higher education diploma program was basically the same as that of the UK undergraduate program. As the domestic English foundation is relatively solid, compared with other ways to go abroad students, English application ability has a significant advantage. Of the 32 students interviewed in the class of 2003, 28 are studying in the UK, while the rest are studying in the us, France, Australia and Ireland. Of the 28 students studying in the UK, 24 received their bachelor's degrees in July 2007 and nearly 90 per cent applied to go on to study for a master's degree. As far as we know, of which at least one student was admitted to the London school of economics, the two students have been admitted to Warwick university business management professional (university of Warwick in the UK university ranked the top 10, including MBA, business, economics, engineering and computer science was listed in the UK university big three), there are nearly ten students at the university of hull, admitted to university of central Lancashire, etc.
This summer, the institute of international education successfully sent a large number of students abroad for further study. So far, 79 of the 82 graduates of the UK higher education diploma programme in 2004 have been granted visas. There is concern about the fate of students on the UK higher education diploma programme, with most of the 79 going to the UK, as well as to the us, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, South Korea and Australia.
The student's smooth send sign, with international education institute has taken the strict quality control measure, guarantees the teaching quality adequately is inseparable. In the external audit of the programme by SQA (Scottish qualifications management council) this academic year, the school of international education not only passed all the subjects successfully, but also received excellent reviews. The certification rate for the 114 students who completed their studies this academic year was 95 percent. What is more gratifying is that the faculty and teaching quality of the school of international education have been fully recognized by the foreign side. SQA has hired 10 external auditors in China, three of whom are teachers of our school.
In terms of the cultivation of students, we have identified the cultivation focus of "extroversion, compound and responsibility". Institute of international education has come from more than 50 countries and regions, more than one thousand international students last semester alone successfully hosted the two "students cultural exchanges of China and the United States," international education institute also arrange some classmates to live with American students, organized students to the English summer camp, and opened the window on the foreign culture for everyone, training the students ability to communicate with foreigners. In order to help you understand people's situation in the society, I organized students to investigate "project hope" in jinzhai county, anhui province, volunteer college students in fengqing county, yunnan province, and the employment status of college students in western China in ledu county, qinghai province. In July this year, another 13 students went to longsheng county, a state-level poverty-stricken county in guangxi zhuang autonomous region, to carry out voluntary English education. All these activities make students know how to cherish, enhance the sense of social responsibility. Last semester alone, the school of international education had more than 50 volunteers to make up lessons for more than a dozen disabled families, and 16 students donated blood. The student union was also honored as the excellent student union of Shanghai university of finance and economics.
In view of the continuous improvement of teaching quality and the gradual emergence of brand effect, the quality of the college's enrollment is also improving year by year. This year the UK higher education diploma programme and Australia through train project accept 656 people sign up, pass the entrance examination after the evolution, officially enrolled student 335 people, including English only branch grade in 100 more than 117 people, accounting for 34% of the total number of admitted students, on the basis of international education college freshman scholarship rules for its implementation, today will have 24 students obtain new scholarship.
From taizhou daily on August 14, 2007 edition