On June 11 and 16, KUST supervisors and international students attended final symposiums on the Chenggong and Lianhua campuses. The symposiums were held in order to fully understand the academic learning of international students and then put forward effective opinions and suggestionsto further strengthen the education and teaching management of international students. KUST supervisors included Professor HE Ping, Professor LU Jiansheng, Professor LV Lixing and Professor ZHANG Daiming, and the staff in charge of international student education from the School of International Education. Additionally, more than 20 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral international students attended the symposium.

At the symposium, the international students expressed their personal opinions on their learning experiences at KUST, the professionalism of the curriculum, their life experiences, and their future career plans during the epidemic. They put forward suggestions on how to assist the difficulties found in their studies and life. They expressed their gratitude to the Chinese government and KUST for the study opportunities, affirmed the teachers' achievements, andmade suggestions for the courses of teaching Chinese to international students. The international students spoke freely, expounded on their troubles encountered in learning and life, and put forward their ideas on the issues existing in the teaching process. The school supervisors responded positively to the students' problems and encouraged international students to actively communicate more with teachers and students, boldly speaking out about their own difficulties and opinions. The supervisors also hoped that international studentswould not forget the friendship between alumni, teachers, students, and classmates, rather that they might become the envoy of academic exchanges between China andother countries, building a bridge for cultural interactions between Chinese and international students in life and study.

TheInternational students who graduatedfrom KUST this year also shared their learning experiences and future academic or career plans. Mark, a Sudanese doctoral graduate, will return to the International University of Africa to be a teacher. He expressed his willingness to play an active role inthe educational exchange and cooperation between the two universities in the future. Ruoxi, a Kenyan undergraduate, willstay to study Chinese at KUST and continue his postgraduate studies on a scholarship next year. Katie, a Yemeni postgraduate, has been admittedto Shanxi Normal University to pursue a master's degreein Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.

KUST has always attached great importance to improving the quality of education and training of their international students. The school supervisors regularlyobserve classes and communicate with the teachers and international students to better understand the teaching performance of the teachers and the difficulties of the students, so that they can give timely feedback to therelated departments. The school supervisors also present the valuable suggestions on teachingwork. The symposium reflected the continuous improvement of the educational and teaching monitoring system for KUST’s international students，and laid a good foundation for relevant departments and colleges to further improve the teaching quality for them.

Translated by: CAI Siqing, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures

Edited by: ZHANG Wei, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures (English)

Source: School of International Education

Issued by: Division ofInternational Cooperation (English)

Edited by: KUST News Center (Chinese)