Graduation Ceremony of 2017 of School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, was held grandly in LiYun A112 on 4pm, June 26th. General Secretary of BNUZ Geng Xiangdong, Dean of SFL Tao Wenhao, staff members, graduates of 2017 and parents all got together to congratulate the success on undergraduates of. The graduation ceremony was presided over by Li Lei.
Professor Tao Wenhao expressed his sincere wishes to the graduates of our school. He hoped that students would serve at a higher vision, nurture your passion and develop emotional intelligence. He suggested that all of the students should no longer use the campus mentality which confined the vision to ego self and the inch of soil where you were living. A broader historical perspective should be applied to view the country and the nation, even worldwide as they are intrinsically linked with students’ fate.
What’s more, students need not only know what to do, how to do but also know why to do; improve their emotional intelligence, not only in the trial and error to understand the world, more importantly, but learn to manage their emotions and other people's emotional ability.
The English teacher representative Li Dan, the Japanese teacher representative ZuoTeng Hang, the representative of graduates Zhou Fang, and undergraduate Mai Zhiqian expressed sincere words to graduates and shared their life experiences and campus memories with their classmates and extended their wishes and expectations for the future of graduates. As teacher ZuoTeng Hang said, the time to stop learning was the beginning of aging, we should always keep a modest learning attitude and interest in new aspect.
At the ceremony, the supervisor group led by Professor Geng Xiangdong and Professor Tao Wenhao held a grand ceremony for the award of certificates. Along with the teachers' blessing videos and songs, the ceremony came to an end although the campus life would be kept for life.
It is reported that till June 6, 2017, 41 of the 214 students, amount to 19% of all, who have graduated from the four-year acadenuc program since year 2013 at the School of Foreign Languages chose to study abroad. Among the 39 students who successfully applied for studying abroad, 15 students were admitted to famous British universities, such as University College London, University of Bath (one of the three most widely-known simultaneous interpretation universities in the United Nations), York University, etc.; 11 Students were admitted to Australian universities, such as Sydney University and the University of Melbourne. Four students would go to Hong Kong and Macao for further studies, such as Hong Kong University and Maucao University. The rest of the schools are located in Japan, Spain and France.
