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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thursday, January 12, 2006
Virtual Academia Forges Closer Links with China - Stephen Hoare, The Guardian
In a couple of years, UK students shopping around for best-value degrees might apply to study at a Chinese university. The idea is not as far fetched as it sounds. Faced with higher top-up fees, UK school-leavers are already beating a path to the door of US universities, many of which offer attractive bursaries to tempt academic high flyers. So why not study a degree course taught in English at one of China's top universities? Or online? "Chinese universities are throwing open their doors to attract international students," says Helen Spencer-Oatey of Cambridge University's language centre.

 



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