访问期间,中英两国政府签订了一系列合作协议,其中包括英国班戈大学同中南林业科技大学合作建立班戈学院的协议。根据两国协议,班戈学院将于今年九月开课,首批开设会计学、金融学和电子工程等本科专业。英国中央兰开夏大学与河北大学合作建立的传媒中心也将于今年九月开始运营。
以下是《泰晤士报》的新闻报道内容:
China university deals announced
25 April 2014 | By David Matthews
Two UK universities have struck deals to offer joint programmes with Chinese institutions as part of a visit to the country by the universities and science minister.
David Willetts was in China with health secretary Jeremy Hunt this week for a two-day visit to promote UK higher education and science.
Among the agreements confirmed during the visit was that the University of Central Lancashire is to set up a joint media centre with Hebei University.
Courses in media, communications and creative industries will be offered from September this year.
Bangor University is also to create Bangor College in the city of Changsha in partnership with the Central South University of Forestry and Technology.
The college will start offering programmes this September in undergraduate accounting, banking, finance and electronic engineering.
The two governments also signed a broad ranging three-year agreement on educational collaboration, including in higher education, research and language learning and teaching.
A new piece of research, conducted by the British Council and Confucius Institutes, will look at the extent of Chinese language learning in the UK.
“The findings of the research will inform the future policy and the investment strategy needed to increase in the number of Chinese language [learners] in the UK,” according to a statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
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