From February 10 to March 3, 2019, the first Faculty Development Program designed specially for teachers of colleges and universities of China was being held by the Regent's Park College, Oxford. Chongqing University, Beijing Institute of Technology, China University of Mining and Technology and Chongqing Medical  University have all sent teachers to the Program. CQU delegation to this Program is made up of 5 teachers respectively from the School of Electrical Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the School of Foreign Languages and the Faculty Development  Center. The Faculty Development Center serves as the leading organization.

The Program lasted for 22 days and was centered on talents nurturing and faculty development, with rich and systematic content. The topics covered world economy situation and higher education in China, comparison between higher education in China and that in the UK, traditional collegiate system education system represented by the University of Oxford, effective teaching ideas and methodology, cultivation of ability of critical thinking, development and utilization of university alumni resources and scholarship of teaching and research. The Program was implemented in a number of forms, including seminar, themed workshop, dialogue and interview, visit and survey, classroom observation and conclusion report based on the above topics. Teachers, while learning the advanced school running concepts and measures of world first-rate universities, had the opportunity to communicate in depth face to face with front-line teachers and current students from those colleges and universities. They also learned and benefited a lot from the group discussion.

Furthermore, the learning object of this Program was not limited to the University of Oxford. It was a network of colleges and universities of the UK with the University of  Oxford as the core. During the Program, teachers successively visited the University of Cambridge, King’s College London and Brookes University as guided by the sponsor. Through field visit and survey, the teachers gained a profound understanding of the unique talents nurturing system, disciplinary construction, teacher training, teaching management and student support of those universities. They also had preliminary negotiation with respect to the possibility of cooperation in the above areas.

Teachers participating in this Program included teaching administrators from professional schools, front-line teachers teaching public basic courses, and administrators and full-time teachers engaged in faculty development of Chongqing University. Besides bringing new ideas and expanding horizon, this Program has also benefited the teachers with the observations, knowledge and feelings gained at those universities, and the way they relate with the teachers’ job duties. The teachers had a clear purpose and questions for participating in the Program, and they got what they want by participating in this Program. In the process of visit, survey, interview, discussion and reflection, they have resulted in working ideas and measures and suggestions on research-oriented teaching and learning, nurturing of top undergraduate talents, internationalized faculty development, teacher teaching and training and teaching reform of public basic courses. This Program has been brought to a successful end.