TAO Holds Summary Meeting

The Teaching Affairs Office (TAO) of China Women's University (CWU) held its annual summary meeting on January 5. Vice-president Song Shengju, deans from different departments and schools, and relevant teachers from TAO participated in the event. Wang Lu, director of the TAO, presided over the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, the deans summarized their key points and highlights of work, found out their shortcomings, put forward their opinions on professional construction and development, and shared their experience and achievements.

Song fully affirmed the achievements of different departments and schools, and expressed her heartfelt gratitude towards all the functional departments. She summarized that the university has seen great improvement in five different areas in 2015, including a clearer talent-cultivating plan, higher status of the talent training center, deeper and more elaborate educational reform, substantial progress in teaching reform projects, and obvious improvements of the talent training quality.

Song reported the university's several achievements in 2015. Firstly, targeting teachers with high-grade professional title, and part of liberal education teachers, the supervision group listened to lectures 71 times, among which 35 teachers were named as "outstanding", and 35 were rated as "good". Secondly, informing the university's condition of educational reform to provide ideas and assurance for different departments. Thirdly, reaffirming the irreplaceable role of teaching secretary team. Song hoped that these present could concern the development of secretary team, and pointedly improve their theoretical and management level.

Song emphasized that all departments should pay high attention to the revision work of talent training. She hoped that relevant departments could keep their feet firmly on the ground, take into full account the influential factors, extensively solicit opinions, and revise the training program with clear goals.

Relevant departments should take their work seriously, do a good job in daily teaching affairs management, data sorting, and archives administration, and prepare for a new-round evaluation. In order to reduce cheating by students, all the schools should complete the mobilization and education work before the final exam. All the teachers could make full use of the digital teaching platform to save and share high quality teaching resources, and expand the university's influence in higher education fields, Song added.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)