Based on the principle of combining the efforts from family and school, DLI held the parents’ meeting on 31 August as its one of traditional orientated week sessions. President Assistant of DUT and the Dean of DLI, Prof. Jingjing Zhan, British Dean of DLI, Prof. Jingzhe Pan, DLI Deputy Deans, Prof. ZhenquaTan and Ms. Lingling Zhao were invited to make presentations and answer questions from parents. Also, Prof. Kal Karim, the Academic Leads of Chemistry, Prof. Bo Wang, the Academic Lead of Mathematics, Avinash Bhangaokar, the Deputy Director of postgraduate programme of UoL and other faculty and administrations from both sides and nearly 600 parents and families of freshmen attended this session.

On behalf of the institute, Prof. Jingjing Zhan expressed his warm welcome to all the new students’ parents. Then, he made a brief introduction about the institute and emphasized the requirements to students derived from the programme's features and teaching mode. He said that based on the experience of the past seven years, the institute has formed its own education features which can be seen from the cultivation outcomes. With the high and steady overall employment rate, the graduates of the institute are recognized and needed by society. The institute always gives priority to providing complete facilities, rich teaching resources for students and a variety of opportunities for studying and exchanging overseas. Prof. Jingjing Zhan proposed that family and school should combine efforts to help students pursue their goals and pave the way to a splendid future.

After a simple but sincere greeting to parents, Prof. Jingzhe Pan focused on the discipline strength and research advantages of the UoL. According to his working experience over the past 20 years, Prof. Pan shared his comments on the difference between the Chinese and British education systems and analyzed the features of them to parents. He considered that students will have an overall development under the combined cultivation of both sides. Besides, other UoL faculty greeted students and their parents via video conference and made best wishes to them.

Finally, in the Q&A session, some parents proposed their questions about the talent cultivation mode, career path and the condition of teaching in English. Prof. Zhenquan Tan and Ms. Linging Zhao answered these questions respectively.

We hope parents can learn more about the institute through this meeting and join efforts with the school to help students develop into talents who have broad horizon and strong sense of responsibilities to society.