Highereducation - Education - Britichcouncil

	Higher education collaboration

Today, universities are expected to deliver research, learning and innovation, and to contribute to a prosperous and well-informed society. We bring together decision makers, policy makers, leaders and practitioners from higher education in the UK and China to learn from one another about how best to do all these things.

We support collaboration at many levels between UK and China:

National and government level
Partnerships between UK and Chinese institutions

Memorandum of Understanding

Our work in higher education collaboration takes place within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK and Chinese governments.

National Higher Education Policy

This project brings together key higher education experts and researchers from China and England to study and compare the higher education management and governance systems in the two countries.

Scotland-China Partnership for PhD Studies

Scottish Government and Ministry of Education have signed an agreement to support the development of collaborative PhD programmes through sustainable research partnerships. Click for details.

University leadership development

This programme has provided opportunities for 35 UK Pro Vice-Chancellors/Vice Principals and 35 Chinese Vice-Presidents to participate in an exchange scheme to learn about each other's practices and develop their leadership skills.

Quality assurance and enhancement

An emerging area of co-operation between UK and China is on quality assurance and enhancement of collaborative programmes and courses.

Sino-UK Education Dialogue Series

The Sino-UK Education Dialogue Series was set up in 2006 to allow distinguished UK university leaders to discuss and debate issues in higher education with their Chinese counterparts.

Employability and entrepreneurship partnerships

Employability and entrepreneurship is one of the new areas of co-operation in the Memorandum of Understanding on Sino-UK Strategic Collaboration in Higher Education. UK universities can apply for partnership funding to develop partnerships in this area.

Development Partnerships in HE (DelPHE)

DelPHE provides funds for Chinese Higher Education Institutions to build partnerships with international partners to work on projects linked to the Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction.

eChina-UK elearning

This project shares experience in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for distance and flexible learning to develop and pilot innovative distance education courseware in selected subject areas.

Scotland-China Higher Education Research Partnership for PhD Studies

Sino-UK Education Dialogue Series

Employability and Enterpreneurship Partnerships

Quality assurance and enhancement

University leadership development

National Higher Education Policy

Development Partnership in Higher Education (DELPHE)