Strong China links bolster education ties
Updated: 2014-10-13 09:15
By Cecily Liu(China Daily)
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Studying elementary Chinese for three weeks, the English students also took classes in either Chinese culture or environmental science.
Another flagship program has been its development of a joint undergraduate degree with Peking University, in which students complete their first two years of study in Beijing and then spend another two years at Durham's Department of Chemistry.
Supported financially by Proctor & Gamble, the US consumer products multinational, it is believed to be Peking University's first collaborative undergraduate degree.
Its Chinese activities include a research collaboration between its own Energy Institute, with Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Dalian University of Technology's School of Control Science and Engineering, the Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Sun Hongjian, a lecturer in smart grids at Durham, hopes the institute's efforts can now go one step further by involving more Chinese companies in the research process. It is already hoping for additional funding from the UK government's 200 million pound ($323 million) Newton Fund which promotes science and innovation partnerships with developing countries.
Thompson says: "We always try to link our research strengths with companies that might be able to work with us-that might mean working with a group of physics or chemistry academics, or training for their executives at the business school.
"The Industrial Revolution played an important role in this area, so we've always had companies working alongside universities."
Elsewhere in the region, too, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside universities are growing their ties with China.
At Newcastle, its 2,000 Chinese students make up 10 percent of the total on campus, prompting the opening there last year of a Confucius Institute.
Confucius Institutes were started by the Chinese government in 2004 to help teach Chinese language and culture overseas. Newcastle's institute co-sponsored the city's 2014 Chinese New Year events with a party for over 200 people.
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