On April 22, the School of Foreign Languages held a training session for graduate supervisors. Members of the School leadership and all graduate supervisors attended the session. Focusing on key topics such as graduate employment, training management, and supervisors’ responsibilities, the session aimed to build a shared understanding on talent cultivation and clarify work requirements. Dean Zhu presided over the meeting.
Shen, Deputy Secretary of the School’s Party Committee, introduced the recent overall employment situation of postgraduate students. She comprehensively analyzed the complexity and urgency of the current employment landscape and provided an in-depth interpretation of national and university policies related to graduate employment. She emphasized that supervisors, as mentors guiding students’ growth, should actively undertake responsibilities for employment guidance, pay close attention to students’ employment needs, publicize relevant policies, and help students develop correct perspectives on career choice and personal development, thereby supporting high-quality graduate employment.
Vice Dean Mao Yansheng systematically outlined the full-chain responsibilities of graduate education and set forth clear requirements for key upcoming tasks. He pointed out that graduate education is a core mission of the School's high-quality development. Supervisors should be involved in every stage of the training process, strictly implement cultivation requirements, uphold academic integrity, and rigorously ensure the quality of degree theses. At the same time, supervisors should standardize research group meeting procedures, strengthen academic guidance, integrate mentorship-based ideological and political education into daily supervision, and pay attention to students' academic progress as well as their physical and mental well-being. Regarding the upcoming May Day holiday, supervisors were asked to enhance safety education, remind students to exercise caution regarding travel, personal, and property safety, properly report their itineraries, and prevent any safety incidents.
Based on the School’s overall development plan, Dean Zhu put forward earnest expectations and clear requirements for all supervisors. He stressed that supervisors are the primary persons responsible for graduate education, and that their performance directly affects both the quality of student cultivation and the School’s development. All supervisors should strengthen their sense of responsibility, remain committed to the original aspiration of fostering virtue through education, continuously innovate their mentoring approaches, improve their supervisory skills, and carry out graduate education with a strong sense of duty, thereby contributing to the high-quality development of graduate education in the School.
Wu, Secretary of the College Party Committee, delivered the concluding remarks. She called upon all Party-member supervisors to fully leverage their vanguard and exemplary roles, take the lead in fulfilling their mentoring duties, and enhance both their academic proficiency and their pedagogical skills. She expressed the hope that all supervisors would seize this training opportunity to further align their thinking, intensify their professional development, and refine their guidance capabilities. She urged them to strive to become outstanding mentors—distinguished by high political integrity, strong academic competence, and effective educational outcomes—thereby contributing to the cultivation of high-caliber talent in foreign languages.
