About HIFL
By admin on 2015-11-05

Hebei Institute of Foreign Languages (HIFL) is a public institution providing a high quality education, with a strong emphasis on foreign languages instruction, professional skills, employment and careers.

The institute has a history of over 100 years and traces its origins back to 1906 when it was known as the Funing Teachers School. It weathered the storms and bumpy roads of the 20th century, and then in the year 2002, it leapt from being a teaching school, to become a vocational college of foreign languages.

The school is located on 35 hectares of land and has idyllic surroundings, with the Daihe River bordering the school to the north, and the Bohai Sea lying to the south. In order to meet the demands of an ever-increasing number of students, the college is in the middle of expanding. When finished, the college buildings will occupy an area of 180,000 square meters.

The institute aims to serve the needs of both students and the industry, with usefulness in employment acting as our guiding principle. Since becoming a vocational college and starting down the road of specializing in languages, HIFL has been methodically establishing new courses, and continually developing and improving the content of existing ones in order to meet the needs of society. The college currently offers courses in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Arabic, and offers specializations in 28 different areas, including English Education, Tourism English, Applied French, Applied German, Business Russian, Business Korean, Business Japanese, Air-hostess Training, Preschool education, Business Secretary, Hotel Management, Media Broadcasting, TV Program Production, Home Economics, International Logistics and Customs Declaration, Logistics Management, Musical Education, and more. It has also established over 50 multimedia classrooms, simulation training rooms and on-and-off-campus training bases, among which, Tourism English Training Base has been authorized to be a central government-financed base by the Ministry of Education. All of these have laid solid foundations of students’ vocational skills. Moreover, it has also been entitled to organize vocational skill tests and examinations at all levels, offering strong wings for students’ soar in the future.

The institute boasts a strong teaching faculty. These years, a series of fruitful programs have been launched, such as Teacher’s Virtue Education, Rookie Teacher Training Project and Core Teacher Training Project, thus a lofty-in-virtue-and-expert-in-profession teaching team headed by leading teachers forming. Now, among over 300 teachers, more than 100 have obtained the highest professional title and another 120 have obtained dual-qualification certificates. The teachers with the doctor’s degree or master’s degree have accounted for 40%. Besides, over 50 guest professors and 20 foreign teachers have been employed. At present, teachers’ professional titles and major distribution are reasonable and teaching structure is orderly, which inject infinite vigor and vitality to the college development.

The institute has been adhering to improving teaching quality, deepening teaching reform, strengthening teaching management, and bettering teaching evaluation system. Key projects have been implemented: “6 + 1 Project” and “Three -Theme Teaching Year”, that is, “Standard Management Year”, “Education Quality Year”, and “Reform and Innovation Year”. In the meantime, the college has focused on model courses constructions; thoroughly pushed forwards constructions of all courses; positively constituted curriculum system under the principle “vocational skills are the foundation, practical teaching the main line, courses the body”. Now, the college has developed 1 State-level model course, 5 province-level model courses, 30 college-level model courses, and 1 province-level model major — Business English.

The institute has attached much importance to improvement of academic research and innovation ability, and advocated teachers to explore in education. These years, teachers have totally published over 700 province-level academic papers, written or compiled over 100 textbooks and academic works, and accomplished over 20 province-level academic researches, among which, 5 were awarded “Third Prize” in Hebei Province. In 2005, Hebei Innovation Model Base settled here.

Thick meticulous academic air has stirred up students’ language craze: student societies have sprung up like mushrooms; the learning atmosphere has run unprecedentedly high. At the English Corner or the Russian Corner, students gather there practicing oral languages and training each other; in the Reading Garden or on tree-lined campus roads they do morning reading, which have been a pleasant view.

Over 7,000 students from all over the country gather at the exceptionally beautiful and propitious place. These ambitious young faces, for their own values and dreams, are tirelessly seeking the truth and preparing to fulfill themselves for tomorrow.

The institute has actively forged an employment platform, in a bid to make students be seamlessly connected with social needs. It has strengthened employment guidance and training of job-starting skills, sought co-operations and inked tailored-talent agreements with enterprises, opened a green channel for quasi-employed students, bettered the employment website, established a communication platform QQ Group and text message group-sending system, fully tapped into the job market, and organized a variety of job fairs integrated with the market demands. Meanwhile, the  institute has made every effort to explore channels for overseas education. These years, the employment rate steadily stands above 90%.

Since 1998 when it transformed into a foreign languages school, it has employed foreign teachers, from the U.K., the U.S., Russia, Korea, Japan, France, Germany, etc. Especially, since its accession in 2002, there have been over 20 foreign teachers every year. Close communication with foreign teachers makes language learning easy and free. Additionally, American Teaching Group makes a visit annually, bringing students new western culture; Japanese Pensioner Association also comes to sow the essence of Japanese culture and friendship.

Since the institute was authorized to enroll overseas students in 2004, over 100 overseas students have been admitted, from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Japan, Thailand and Iran. Their presence has further thickened the air of languages learning, a beautiful exotic sight.

The institute has proactively pursued international exchanges and co-operations and has signed college-to-college cooperation agreements with colleges from Kyrgyzstan, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Korea, Germany, France, Japan, and Singapore etc. The International Exchange Center has become a bridge connecting each other, while student exchanges have widened the channel of studying abroad.

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