A group photo of BIT's faculty

On Dec 3, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) held a symposium on the high-quality development of graduate education and the 40th anniversary of the establishment of its Graduate School.

Jiang Lan, BIT's president and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, affirmed the 40-year development achievements of the Graduate School and put forward three requirements for continuously promoting high-quality development of BIT’s graduate education.

Jiang proposed to foster a "teaching-oriented, dedicated and persevering" educational culture. The Graduate School should focus on enhancing students' tolerance and compassion, ethics and morality, social and interpersonal skills, interests and hobbies, humanities and philosophy, as well as arts and sports, in order to promote the harmonious development of students' intellect and character.

He emphasized that the Graduate School needs to establish an integrated system procedure that combines science and education, and ensures continuity from undergraduate to graduate studies. The focus should be on constructing a science and education platform that integrates research, education, teaching and talent, building top-notch education teams and creating excellent education platforms.

In addition, Jiang spoke of establishing intelligent transformation and cross-disciplinary collaborative implementation plans. The Graduate School should integrate AI into the process and various aspects of graduate education, reshape the "teacher + student + AI" relationship and promote reforms in educational philosophy and models, as well as teaching materials and methods.

During the symposium, leaders of the Graduate School in various periods gathered to discuss promoting the reform and development of graduate students education.

BIT's Graduate School opened during the Yan'an period (1935-1948). After years of development, the scale of graduate education has been continuously expanding; the quality of training has significantly improved; and graduate education, along with various undertakings of the school, has entered a new stage of high-quality development.

Graduate education at BIT will remain committed to "strengthening the country through education", writing a coordinated development answer to the triad of "education, science and technology, and talent," and making new and even greater contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.