International Cooperation in Education Benefits All

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International Cooperation in Education Benefits All

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The opening-up of China's education sphere has made even more and better remarkable achievements than in the economic and trade fields.

Cooperation between China's leading universities and the world' s prestigious schools, research centers and multinational corporations has benefited all involved.

Famed Qinghua University in Beijing, in a step to turning itself one of the world's top universities, has signed cooperation and exchange contracts with more than 100 universities in 20 countries and regions, and has jointly set up dozens of laboratories and training centers with renowned international organizations.

Statistics available from the Beijing Municipal Education Commission show that approximately 20 universities in Beijing have been working in cooperation with universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Italy, France and Japan.

In the past two years, foreign universities vied with each other for a share in China's management education market. A number of prestigious American universities, such as Harvard and John Hopkins, flocked to China to cooperate with Chinese universities to establish industrial and commercial management training programs.

International cooperation has become a valve to release the burden of education resources shortage in the world's most populous country.

Dr. Wu Yan, of Beijing Municipal Higher Education Institute, said that since China's entry into the World Trade Organization ( WTO), a host of foreign education organizations and investment enterprises have entered the country, providing favorable opportunities for China's education industry development.

By 2010, institutions of higher learning in China will have up to 16.5 million to 17 million students, a huge incentive to invest in education.

Beijing University offers a total of 4 million yuan (480,000 US dollars) in scholarships annually to its students, with 3 million yuan (360,000 US dollars), or 75 percent, coming from foreign- invested firms.

Coming together with funding are first-rate university management and abundant teaching resources. Quite a few Chinese universities started to adopt teaching systems and materials of the world's top universities, and also offer courses in English step by step. Some teaching methods of foreign colleges are also favored by their Chinese counterparts such as offering students a "preview" before choosing a course.

China's education circles came to realize long ago that experienced, high-level faculty members can bring forth immeasurable value to a school. Some key universities have invited the world-renowned scholars and scientists to take posts such as guest professorships.

A case in point is that a famous Chinese university has even invited an academician from the National Academy of Sciences in the United States to be the dean of one of its leading departments.

Not only China gain in this cooperation, but also its partner. Universities and enterprises from overseas also get the qualified personnel they badly need.

Intel has initiated future Internet structure research in five leading Chinese universities. Both Microsoft and Hitachi Ltd. have founded their laboratories through cooperation with Qinghua University in an effort to gear basic researches chiefly to those involving domestically-made computers.

The most practical purpose for the multinationals to expand cooperation in education is that they want very much to advance the strategy of exploring markets with excellent local personnel.

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