On the
morning of December 16, 2017, an information session on policies of 2017 CSC
program was held in the Chemistry Lecture Hall, XMU. The presenter Long Man,
director of Division of Planning & Development, China Scholarship Council
(CSC), was invited by the Graduate School to offer an introduction to the
policies of state-sponsored scholarship for overseas study 2017. XMUers showed
great interest in the session, and all 270 seats of the hall were occupied by
attenders. The session was moderated by Prof. Tao Tao, executive dean of
Graduate School. Other attenders were Liu Lei, an officer with CSC, Wang
Xiaoli, deputy director of Human Resources Office, some staffs from Graduate
School and Academic Affairs Office, young teachers, graduate and undergraduate
students.
Long
Man made a thorough introduction to the responsibility of CSC, polices of
state-sponsored scholarship for overseas study, the information about
state-sponsored scholarship for overseas study 2016 and plans and key programs
for the year 2017. She said that in the past three years, more than 300 XMUers
had gained the government-sponsored scholarship to study abroad, making XMU
highly ranked among the “985 Project” universities. CSC would continue to
uphold the policy of “individual application, college recommendation, expert
evaluation and selection of excellent candidates” and the principle of
“fairness, impartiality and openness” in 2017, and planned to select 32,500
candidates to study overseas, almost covering all disciplines. She focused on
the “National Program for Excellent Graduate Students Studying Overseas” which
students were highly interested. She gave a detailed interpretation of the
procedure, application requirements and scholarship, and changes in the new
polices of 2017.
The
introduction was followed by a Q&A session, young teachers and students
consulted Long Man with problems they met in application, and Long patiently
answered their questions.
At
last, Prof. Tao Tao extended a warm welcome to Long Man and appreciation for
the long-term support of CSC. He stated that XMU had always attached great
importance to broadening the horizon of graduate students, enhancing their
international competitiveness and improving the quality of graduate education.
Since the National Program for Excellent Graduate Students Studying Overseas
launched in 2007, XMU has sent 887 graduate students to the program. In 2016,
XMU hit a record high with 136 XMUers obtaining the state-sponsored
scholarship. In the same year, Graduate School funded 728 graduate students to
go abroad for academic purposes or attending international academic conferences.
Since 2013, Graduate School has cooperated with 7 renowned universities in the
US, Canada, England, Australia and other countries to establish international joint
programs and high-level academic exchange platforms for graduate students.