In order to continuously promote the Action Plan for First-class Undergraduate Talents, discuss the latest implementation of this plan of QMES, deeply explore the problems and difficulties in the promotion of the plan, and effectively improve the quality and effectiveness of undergraduates education, QMES held a Partyandadministrative joint meeting on June 7, 2022 to discuss the implementation of the Action Plan for First-class Undergraduates education.Fan Xiaoli, Dean of QMES; Dai Fuping; SecretaryofPartyCommitteeof QMES; Cheng Yin, Vice Dean of QMES; Wu A’jing, Director of the General Affairs Office; Yang Ye, Director of the Teaching Affairs Office; Huang Quanzhang, Director of the Student Affairs Office, and some faculty members attended this seminar.

The seminar was presided over by Fan Xiaoli.At the beginning of the seminar, Yang Ye gave an overall introduction to the Action Plan for First-class Undergraduates Education, and reported on the current implementation, main measures, achievements, and existing problems and difficulties.According to the 7 major aspects and 30 objectives and requirements of the action plan for education, QMES has broken down the tasks from the aspects of enrollment entrance, training process and graduation standards so as to promote their implementation one by one.

Afterwards, Fan Xiaoli led the participants to conduct an in-depth discussion on the current problems existing in the enrollment, curriculum system, mode of education, curriculum teaching, innovative practice, students’ academic performance and education effectiveness of QMES.At the same time, she put forward the next work plan according to the real requirements of QMES.The first step is to solve the insufficient spillover effect problem of QMESfeaturedmodules by optimizingcurriculum system and constructingfeaturedmodules.The second step is to further promote the integration of Chinese and foreign education and teaching mode, so that it can play a demonstration and leading role in theeducatingmodeamongJEIs.The third step is to continue to improve students’ comprehensive ability and help them clarify their career development paths by continuously offeringfeatured modules.

After listening to everyone’s discussion, Secretaryof Party CommitteeDai Fuping first affirmed the phased achievements of the Action Plan for First-class UndergraduatesEducationof QMES, and clarified the development direction and key tasks in the future.He pointed out the new situation, new tasks and new challenges faced by our undergraduateseducation.Furthermore, he hoped that QMES would pay more attention to student affairs, promote the all-round development of students, and solidly promote the work of undergraduate education while deepening the reform of education and teaching.

Finally, Fan Xiaoli encouraged all the teachers of QMES to make concerted efforts to put forward more suggestions and summarize them according to the action plan based on their own work experience and the development needs of QMES. Meanwhile, she hoped that teachers would try their best to come up with more new ideas and accumulate good ideas for their follow-up work, so as to further promote the innovative and efficient development of the education work of QMES.

Text: Fan Lanyu

Photo: Fan Lanyu

Edit: Wu Sijia

Review: Fan Xiaoli

Translator: Liu Kaixuan