SHANGHAI TO ATTRACT MORE FOREIGN STUDENTS
Shanghai plans to improve its higher education resources to attract more foreign students, and to spend more for college students to study overseas, reports Liang Yiwen for the Shanghai Daily. The goal is for the percentage of overseas students in local colleges to grow to 15% in 2020 compared with 5.9% in 2008, according to the city’s 10-year education development outline. According to the draft, the city government will subsidize 2% of local college and university students to go on a study tour or internship experience abroad every year.
Source: University World News
URL: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20100403080105513
