The Experimental High School Affiliated with the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology(SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, which will recruit its first batch of students this year, will actively promote the “doctoral classes” course, according to Guangzhou Daily.

In November 2018, the Shenzhen Municipal Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) signed an agreement for the establishment of the SIAT. After that, the Guangming District Government and the university approved the plan to build the affiliated experimental high school, which will focus on high-end scientific education.

The “doctoral classes” will be a featured course of the school. Professors and researchers with doctoral degrees will explain to students scientific concepts related to electricity, genetic, and modern remote sensing technologies in a simple and interesting way and complement the lecturing with experiments. This is a characteristic school-running mode that actively explores the integration of science and basic education, catering to the development of the times.

First rolled out in 2016 in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology Experimental School, another affiliated school of the CAS, the “doctoral classes” course has yielded positive results. So far, more than 73 teachers have joined the project as lecturers, all of whom have post-doctorates or are assistant or associate researchers. They have completed the development of more than 70 cutting-edge science courses according to the science curriculum issued by the Ministry of Education.

“When ‘mysterious’ Ph.D. teachers stands in front of the students, curiosity has already been aroused,” said Song Rujiao, the principal of the experimental school.

“Simply learning knowledge would make students feel dull and difficult, but the fun of making diamonds through physical and chemical methods allows students to feel the power of knowledge in a more intuitive way,” said Dr. Zhou Xiaolong, a graduate from Nagaoka National University of Technology and Science in Japan whose areas of research include carbon materials and energy storage devices. He plans to lead students in “diamond making” in the course, hoping students will understand that all advanced science and technology is rooted in the basic knowledge they have learned in the class.

(Yang Yawen)