Although Im not a native English speaker, but I believe that practice is always key. Continuous communication in terms of writing and verbal will greatly help achieve the highest expectations. I can definitely tell that my writing fluency since I started my PhD has greatly improved, and its only been a year. Thanks for posting!

As you mentioned diversity is important in research groups, not only for prospective students, but also for those current students enrolled. For example, having a diverse group of students will teach them new things from each other, will open their eyes to new topics, possibly even learn a new language just by spending time with them. It will be in and of itself a new and exciting teaching experience. Thanks for sharing!

Although grade inflation definitely decreases the quality of students graduating, I hope that they are at least qualified as engineers (of course ones that have the minimal required skills). since expectations are held that faculty will only pass students if they acquire understandings of basic concepts-

Thanks for posting this blog. Your last words pointed out a very important problem:
“stop the unnecessary changes.” It is true that students should be grade oriented and the school should be more on how they can provide a more practical area for students.