2019年CRI UK-China-BRI Countries Education Partnership Initiative launched

 

Chinese and British authorities have announced a new funding program for education partnerships² between the two sides, as well as for other countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.

CRI's UK correspondent Liang Tao has more.

The UK-China-BRI Countries Education Partnership¹ Initiative is a multilateral education programme designed in partnership between the British Council and China's Ministry³ of Education.

In announcing the winning proposals from the first round of seed funding, Andrew Zerzan with the British Council is describing the program the beginning of a new chapter.

"Something that the British Council and the Ministry of Education have just launched and is first of its kind ever is the multilateral partnership fund. We will give seed money to UK universities to partner with Chinese institutions and BRI countries. This is really important because, in my opinion, this is the beginning of a new chapter and bringing the relationship to another level."

Zerzan says there's an urgency in launching this type of initiative.

"One of the biggest challenges we have in the West with China is China's size. Chinese universities and research centres are very big, with many people and many resources. We struggle to match that size. China's population is about 20 times larger than that of the UK so, to get to the same scale is very difficult. Therefore the next step is for us is to bring in a BRI country and make a multilateral partnership. It helps achieve the size that China wants while making the cooperation successful. I see this as the next stage of education collaboration⁴ between the two countries."

Andrew Zerzan says the Initative is also going to help bolster⁵ the UK's education reputation by connecting more UK institutions to educational opportunities in China and amongst Belt and Road countries.

"I think there is still significant capacity in the British higher education system to take on many more international students including from China. In my view, if you look at the statistics, there has been an increasing number of Chinese students coming into the UK every year. So the trend is for more Chinese students, whatever happens with US and China relationship. The fact is that Chinese students everyday know more about the quality of British education and they are coming here to benefit from that. It's exactly the same the other way round: more and more British students are going to China. Britain really benefits from this and I think the British system has a lot more capacity to take on more international students itself."

Over 28 universities from 12 countries have applied⁶ to be eligible⁷ for the 540-thousand US dollar investment.

Proposals cover studies in areas such as healthcare, police education, food safety, manufacturing, renewable energy and global leadership.

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

3 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

4 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。

5 bolster   

n.枕垫；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。

6 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

7 eligible   

adj.有条件被选中的；(尤指婚姻等)合适(意)的

参考例句：

• He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
• Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。