By Jiayi Sun
On January 9, ten post-graduate students from BIGC exchange programme made their thesis proposal through WeChat video platform.
Ten students from BIGC exchange programme in University of Stirling madde good preparation on the morning of 9 Jan. At 8 AM GMT or 4 PM Beijing Time the proposal across two continents began as scheduled. The proposal commission of this long-distance defense were made up of the supervisors, including Dean Chen Dan, Vice Dean Li Desheng, Associate Professor Fan Jizhong and other seven supervisors from the School of Journalism & Publishing of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication.
Due to the limitation of time difference, equipment, signal and other factors, the original video defense was changed to voice communication. Although there were noises, and other problems in the long distance online communication, the proposal defense was a success. The students benefited a lot from the questions and suggestions of the supervisors. At about 10:30 GMT time, the over two-hour proposal defense was successfully completed.
