Article 1 In order to implement the spirit of the working conference on "Strengthening the School with Talents", improve the academic level of school teachers and speed up the internationalization of the school, according to the relevant national policies and the actual situation of the school in recent years, it is decided to implement the "Young Teachers' Study Abroad Plan".
Article 2 This plan aims to send about 200 young teachers to study in famous foreign universities and academic institutions in three years (201510/0 ~ 201231February) to broaden their academic horizons. At the same time, promote the school to establish extensive contacts with foreign universities and carry out academic exchange activities on a regular basis.
Article 3 This scheme follows the principles of openness, fairness and transparency. Organize the implementation according to the procedures of individual application, college recommendation, school approval, contract dispatch and compensation for breach of contract.
Second, the training category and selection conditions
Article 4 Training categories
The training categories are: senior visiting scholar, visiting scholar (including postdoctoral research), pursuing doctoral degree, cooperative research and trainees.
Article 5 Mode of dispatch
Dispatching methods are divided into two categories: national public school and unit public school.
The national public school refers to the overseas students recommended by the school, included in the national selection plan and funded by the national study abroad fund. Public school refers to the overseas students who are selected according to the construction plan of our school's teaching staff and approved by the school and funded by the school to study abroad.
Article 6 The conditions that an applicant should meet
1, loves the motherland, has good moral character, is physically and mentally healthy, has the spirit of unity and cooperation, and has the dedication and sense of responsibility to return to China to serve the school construction.
2, the age is generally under 45 years old, with a high academic level and strong business ability, active academic thinking, a fixed research direction and clear academic goals.
3. Have a certain ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing in a foreign language, and be able to conduct academic exchanges in this subject in a foreign language.
4. In addition to meeting the above conditions, applicants applying for public study abroad must also have specific provisions for selecting departments or recipients.
Third, the plan implementation procedures
Article 7 make plans
1. The school makes a three-year plan to go abroad, and each college makes an annual dispatch plan (a certain three years): 8% of full-time teachers under 45 in engineering colleges recommend sending personnel; 5% of full-time teachers under the age of 45 are recommended by universities mainly in science and engineering, and will be included in this plan after being approved by the school. The selected personnel and their institutions should be prepared to go abroad to ensure the timely dispatch of personnel.
2, included in the school's "young teachers study abroad program" personnel, school personnel, foreign affairs departments and units will strive to create conditions, organize foreign language training and examinations by stages, and assist individuals to actively contact and implement foreign receiving units through various channels.
Article 8 Dispatching channels
1, 35% of the funded personnel of this project are sent through the agreement signed between the school and the National Scholarship Fund Committee (such as "full funding", "western project" and "young backbone teachers support project 1: 1" and other overseas study projects of the National Scholarship Fund Committee).
2. 65% of the sponsors of this plan are sent in the form of public schools.
Individuals from receiving units outside the country (territory) may apply for studying abroad after receiving foreign admission notices or invitations. After the unit agrees to report to the school for approval, it will be included in the plan.
Article 9 Sending overseas trainees
1, the state sends overseas students in accordance with the relevant policies of the National Scholarship Fund Committee.
2. Units that send overseas students shall be managed in accordance with the method of "contract dispatch and compensation for breach of contract".
All units should actively assist the personnel who intend to study abroad to contact the foreign receiving unit, make work arrangements in time after receiving the invitation letter from the foreign party, and urge the applicant to go through the dispatch procedures according to the prescribed procedures.
3. The personnel included in this plan shall go through the relevant funding procedures in the personnel department in time after obtaining the funding qualification.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) policy measures
Thirteenth overseas researchers funding policy
The overseas students selected by the national public school shall be implemented according to the agreement signed between the National Scholarship Fund Committee and the school.
The selected overseas students shall bear the living expenses of studying abroad according to the proportion of 50% of the school, 30% of the college and 20% of the individual.
Article 14 Relevant treatment during studying abroad
Pay their basic salary and enjoy housing allocation treatment within the approved time limit for going abroad; For those who work overtime and miss work, the school will stop paying wages and housing distribution and treatment.
Fifteenth overseas students selected for the national, provincial and ministerial level, all kinds of talents to support the school development plan, their study abroad expenses and related treatment during their study abroad shall be implemented according to the relevant plan.
Sixteenth every year 1 month, the school summarizes the work of studying abroad in the previous year and commends and rewards the colleges with outstanding work. At the same time, outstanding returned overseas students will be selected according to 30% of the number of people who returned to school last year, and living allowances will be given to outstanding returned overseas students who have returned to school on schedule and achieved remarkable results. The specific payment standard is: a one-time subsidy of 8,000 yuan will be given to those who return to school in the form of state funding.
Fourth, plan management.
Article 10 Students studying abroad must sign the Agreement on Studying Abroad in xidian university with the school, and at the same time, they must arrange the faculty and staff of our school with certain economic ability and lecturer title as their domestic guarantors. The guarantor shall bear corresponding responsibilities and joint and several economic responsibilities.
Article 11 Foreign-related management of students studying abroad
1. After the trainees arrive in the country they want to go to, they should report to the embassy or consulate of China in that country within one month, and inform the competent departments of colleges and schools of their foreign correspondence addresses in time. During your study abroad, you should report your study abroad to your unit every three months.
2. Students studying abroad should return to school on time after the expiration of study abroad. Schools generally do not extend the duration of studying abroad. If it is really necessary to extend the period of studying abroad, I shall submit a written application to my unit three months before the expiration of the period and report it to the personnel department for approval. The school approves the extension at most once, and the period is no more than one year. In principle, state-sponsored students studying abroad shall not apply for extending the study period according to the regulations of the Study Abroad Fund Committee.
Article 12 After returning to school, overseas trainees should report their work to the college in the form of academic reports, and at the same time submit written summaries, scientific research papers and scientific research results reports to the school.
Six, treatment:
1. The school reserves the monthly post salary and salary scale salary of the overseas teachers in full.
2. After the dispatched teachers pass the evaluation of studying abroad, the school will pay 50% of the basic post allowance every month during their study abroad.
3. The school provides economy class round-trip international air tickets, passports, visas and other expenses for the dispatched teachers.
4. The school provides 65,438+0,000 USD of study subsidy to the dispatched teachers (paid in RMB at the exchange rate).
5. If the dispatched teacher fails to pass the effectiveness evaluation of going abroad for further study or violates the agreement on sending abroad for further study, the school will require him to return all or part of the study allowance as appropriate.
Seven. Selection program
1. At the beginning of March each year, teachers apply for registration after being approved by the school and submit plans for further study abroad.
2. At the beginning of April every year, the school organizes a selection team to select the applicants and determine the candidates to be sent.
3. From April every year, send teachers to foreign universities for further study, and complete relevant domestic examination and approval procedures and apply for visas.
4. Send them to study after August or February every year.
Eight. others
Since 20xx, the implementation of this plan has been determined according to the needs of the discipline construction and development of the school.
Teacher's personal training plan 2. Introduction to the project
In order to strengthen the professional and language abilities of professional teachers in colleges and universities, increase the support for the construction of teachers in local colleges and universities, promote the process of higher education reform in the western region, and improve the ability of education in the western region to connect with the world by absorbing and drawing lessons from the latest scientific and technological achievements and multiculturalism of foreign developed countries, china scholarship council cooperated with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to carry out overseas training programs for professional teachers in colleges and universities.
1, foreign partner
The University of California, San Diego ("UCSD") was founded in 1959. It is a famous public university in California and a first-class university in the United States (Tier 1). The school ranks the whole country 10 in the survey of the National Education Investigation Commission. The University of San Diego has a strong faculty, and science teachers rank first among public universities in the United States.
Step 2 Choose a range
This project is mainly oriented to the selection of provinces and regions for the special project of talent training in the western region. Local cooperative project units can also recommend candidates to participate in this project according to actual needs. The admitted personnel are uniformly included in the selection plan of each province in the current year.
3. Training arrangements
The National Scholarship Fund Committee will arrange training courses and internships for international students during their stay abroad. The main training methods are centralized teaching, teaching observation, special discussion, teaching practice and writing summary report.
The training arrangement is mainly divided into five parts, namely: language ability training; Observe professional course teaching and classroom activities; Professional teaching seminar; Classroom teaching practice; Submit a training report.
Details are as follows:
(1) Language ability training: 6- 10 class hours every week, throughout. Professional tutors teach;
(2) Oral expression seminar: 3 class hours per week, arranged in the first three months of each period. Specially designed according to the level of students;
(3) Classroom teaching observation: there are arrangements during the training. Each student will choose an undergraduate course in this major to observe teaching skills and classroom activities. (Note: There is no course observation during the week, term and summer of the final exam)
(4) Professional Teaching Seminar (PTS): 3 class hours per week, arranged three months after each period, lasting for 6 weeks. According to the students' situation, the design aims to let students learn and practice the interactive guidance methods of English classroom, American curriculum culture and American university classroom.
(5) Classroom teaching practice: the final stage of the project will be implemented, * * * 3-4 weeks. Under the guidance of PTS tutor, determine the teaching topic and carry out teaching practice. The instructor will record the students' teaching process and make an evaluation, and finally evaluate the degree and field of improvement of each student's writing ability.
Among them, students are divided into three groups (8- 12 people in each group) in language ability training, oral expression seminar and professional teaching seminar. In addition, UCSD will provide weekly or biweekly consultation meetings for students, and provide consultation in groups or one-on-one.
Second, the selection plan
1, select the category and length of study abroad.
Visiting scholar: The duration of studying abroad is 6 months.
2. Research country: United States
3. Selection scale: 65438+ sending 0-2 issues each year, with 24-36 people in each issue.
Third, the content of funding.
One round-trip international travel expenses, scholarship living expenses and research fees for project personnel during their study abroad.
Four. Application conditions
1, who was under 45 years old at the time of application (1born after May, 968 13);
2. Applicants should meet the application conditions stipulated in the General Rules for the Selection of Overseas Students Supported by the 20 13 National Fund for Studying Abroad and the 20 13 Measures for the Selection of National Senior Research Scholars and Visiting Scholars (including Postdoctoral Research) and other conditions stipulated by various provinces and regions;
3. The applicant should be a backbone teacher of specialized courses in colleges and universities in all provinces and autonomous regions; The following disciplines are temporarily unable to apply for this project: medicine, management, marine science, international relations, and English;
4. Language requirements: in line with the "Foreign Language Conditions for Overseas Students Funded by the National Fund for Studying Abroad";
5, meet other conditions stipulated by the provinces.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) application method
1. Time and method of application
Applicants should apply online from May 10 to May 13, 20xx, and submit the application materials to the local provincial education authorities.
The specific selection plan and application time can be announced separately by the provincial education authorities according to local work arrangements. Applicants can consult the education authorities of the provinces and regions where they are located and apply according to the time stipulated by each province.
2. Application acceptance method
The education departments of all provinces and autonomous regions are responsible for consulting, accepting and reviewing application materials; The National Scholarship Fund Committee does not directly accept applications from individuals and units.
3. Application materials
Please prepare the application materials in triplicate (one original and two copies) in accordance with the Instructions on Preparation of Application Materials for Studying Abroad for Special Talents Training Projects in Western China/Local Cooperation Projects.
Evaluation and admission methods of intransitive verbs
The evaluation of this project is divided into two stages: local expert evaluation and expert joint evaluation. The evaluation of local experts is the responsibility of the education departments of all provinces and autonomous regions. Expert joint review is organized by china scholarship council and provincial education authorities, and the list of applicants is determined by combining material review and interview. The admission results will be announced on 20 13 10.
Seven. External contact and dispatch
1. The accepted personnel will be dispatched by the National Scholarship Fund Committee. Accommodation is assisted by UCSD, and international students contact and implement it themselves.
2. The dispatch time is generally 1 or June of the following year (the specific dispatch time is subject to the notice of the National Scholarship Fund Committee).
3. Before sending overseas students, it is necessary to sign the Agreement on Aid for Studying Abroad with the National Scholarship Fund Committee and the education authorities in the province where they are located, and go through the formalities of notarization of the agreement, deposit and health certificate for international travel. The National Scholarship Fund Committee will uniformly notify and handle relevant dispatch matters two months before dispatch.