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International Collaboration on Graduate Education: Experience and Best Practices Dr. Liu Jinghui Secretary-General CHINA SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL Chengdu, August 4th, 2012. Content. An Overview of CSC's Scholarship Programs
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International Collaboration on Graduate Education: Experience and Best Practices Dr.Liu Jinghui Secretary-General CHINA SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL Chengdu, August 4th, 2012
Content • An Overview of CSC's Scholarship Programs • CSC's Experiences and Best Practices in Supporting International Graduate Education (Case Studies) • CSC's Collaboration with Canada on Graduate Education • Proposals
CSC's major scholarship programs include: Visiting Scholar and Senior Research Scholar Program Postgraduate Study Abroad Program Exchange Programs with Other Countries Visiting Scholar Program for Young Backbone Teachers Western China Talents Training Program and Provincial Cooperative Program International Exchange Program for Outstanding Undergraduates Program on International and Regional Research and Training for Senior Language Talents
Review of the Postgraduate Program (by 2010): More than 66% sent to top 200 universities all over the world (According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the Shanghai Ranking); More than 400 MOU singed between Chinese and international universities;
More than 19,000 academic papers were published: ---5,154 were published on journals covered by SCI, EI or ISTP; ---more than 40 were published on the world's most cited journals like Nature and Science. • Over 73% returned students were employed by higher education and scientific research institutions.
The 2012-2016 Postgraduate Progrm • 6,000 per year; • 2,500 for full PhD students; • Innovation to the Selection Process: --open to qualified students and faculty members from all higher education institutions in China and candidates from all works of life; --Self-sponsored Chinese students studying abroad were included.
Part Two: CSC'S Experiences and Best Practices in Supporting International Graduate Education (Case Studies)
The Sino-France Program Caiyuanpei: --for research fellow and doctoral students; --Supporting no more than 20 research programs per year; --For each program, no more than 4 persons from one country will be awarded the scholarship
The Peking Univerisity / Georgia Tech Biological Engineering Joint PhD Program --Students officially register at both universities; --Two supervisors for one student, one from Peking University and the other from Georgia Tech; --Two years atPeking University and two years at Georgia Tech; --One degree, two stamps
Tsinghua University and the University of Pittsburgh Joint MD Program • Tsinghua University-RWTH Aachen Double Masters Program
MU-PKU-SHZU Tripartite Program • ENS-ECNU Joint Graduate Program • WHU-TUM Double Masters Program of ESPACE in English
Part Three: CSC'S Collaboration with Canada on Graduate Education
CSC's Cooperative Programs with Canada • MOU with 18 Canadian Universities; • Canada-China Norman Bethune Health Research Scholarships Program • Canada-China Scholars Exchange Program • MOE-AAFC PhD Research Program • MOE-NRC Research and Post-doctoral Fellowship Program
To establish innovative graduate education cooperationplatforms for joint scientific research and student training; • To explore the Production-Learning-Research Cooperation Model for graduate education;
To facilitate and promote teacher training and the internationalization of graduate education for western China. • To promote students' two-way mobility between China and Canada.