UK university gets rare green light for partnership in China
The UK’s Birmingham City University has become one of just a handful of global institutions to be given approval by the Chinese Government to set up a jointly run higher education institute.
The partnership with Wuhan Textile University, situated in Hubei’s capital city Wuhan, will see the Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts open to a new intake of 300 students in September 2016. Courses will be taught in both Mandarin and English, with students earning internationally recognized UK Bachelor’s degrees. Students will also be given the option to spend half their studies in the UK at the University’s new campus in Birmingham city centre.
The university is one of 63 across the world to be given the green light to set up a jointly run higher education institute in China. Birmingham joins institutions as Duke University, the University of Michigan and New York University in being able to confer degrees in China. At least 30 other UK universities are believed to have bid for similar approval this year.
Source: China Daily
