News brief: Professor Rupert Herington, the language teaching supervisor from University of Leeds visited SFL to discuss affairs on “Sino-Foreign Cooperative Programme of Southwest Jiaotong University and University of Leeds” on May 14th and 15th. The discussion concentrated on the curriculum, arrangement of credit hours and compiling of teaching materials, etc. Vice Dean, Wang Pengfei, Assistant Dean, Yang Anwen and some teacher representatives attended the discussion.