On April 10th, a CPD seminar for Year One teachers was held at the Joint School. Attendees included Shen Yixin, Year One director, Liu Jiani, an English lecturer from the Language Center at UoL, and all other Year One teachers.Liu Jiani, who previously worked at the Leeds Library and is experienced with information literacy, research skills, library resources, and library operations and management，...

The Joint School’s faculty and staff meeting for the semester 2 of academic year 2023-2024 was held in X30519 on March 22. Over 90 academic and administrative staff attended the meeting chaired by ZHAO Duo, Deputy Dean.JIANG Jiuwen, Dariusz Wanatowski, LIU Yaoqian, and ZHAO Duo from the management team briefed respectively on the new semester’s priorities, rules of using generative AI at the University ...

On March 13th, Jennifer Macdougall, external examiner of Engineering English visited SWJTU-Leeds Joint School. She participated in an in-depth discussion with the management team and Year One teachers on topics such as curriculum design, assessment, learning outcomes, language support and challenges in teaching brought by artificial intelligence.Ms Macdougall had a talk with Year One students about ...