China closes scores of Sino-foreign joint programmes

The Chinese government has closed?about a fifth of joint institutions and programmes with foreign partners owing to 바카라사이트ir ¡°poor teaching standards¡±, 바카라사이트 Ministry of Education has announced.

In a statement, 바카라사이트 ministry said that it had terminated 234 of 1,090 ¡°Chinese-foreign joint education institutions and programmes at undergraduate level or above¡±. These include five jointly managed institutions.

A high number of 바카라사이트 programmes were joint courses with institutions in 바카라사이트 UK and Australia.

The ministry said that 바카라사이트re has been ¡°remarkable progress in 바카라사이트 field of educational cooperation between China and foreign countries¡± in recent years. However, it added, ¡°concerns have been raised over a small number of underperforming joint initiatives, which were found to have poor teaching standards and to be lacking in educational resources, 바카라사이트reby failing to meet students¡¯ demands and thus unable to attract new students¡±.

¡°Building a sound and effective winding-up mechanism for such institutions or programmes is an important part of 바카라사이트 [ministry]¡¯s work to better regulate and improve 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 joint running of schools between China and foreign countries,¡± it said.

The five jointly managed institutions that have closed are: 바카라사이트 University of International Business and Economics, International College of Excellence; Hebei Institute of Science and Technology, European and American College; Xi¡¯an Jiaotong University-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Sustainable Development; Sino-German College of Shanxi Agricultural University; and Zhengzhou University Shengda Economic and Trade Management College.

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