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This University is a partnership between the
University in Nottingham and the Wanli Education Group here in Ningbo, and it's the first Sinophone
collaborative university in China. We're young still and we're still full of
ambitions, but I think now we're moving into what we're calling our 'third phase' of development,
and that's a really exciting time. We can now start to be really creative. I think the
postgraduate space is going to grow and grow and I think the international opportunity
to partner and collaborate is really important. And that's true for us as teachers and researchers,
and for our students. China's set to become the number one economy
in the world. Jobs, opportunities are abound here. The kind of skills that our students
and graduates have are in high demand, the talent that we produce are in demand.
So we teach students across the entire range, from undergraduate programs to masters programs
to PhDs. And we have three faculties here. So we have a Faculty of Arts and Education,
a Faculty of Science and Engineering, and a Faculty of Social Sciences, so lots of different
subjects are represented. So all our students get a University of Nottingham degree and
all of our programs go through the UK quality assurance systems.
This University's based in the city of Ningbo, a highly dynamic, vibrant city, continually
growing. In fact it's one of the largest ports in the world and has a population of around
about 10 million people. I think Ningbo is a traditional and modern
city. Why I say it is traditional is because it has many ancient architectures, like Tianyi
Pavilion, which is one of the oldest libraries in China. And I also said it is a modern city
because it is quite vibrant and dynamic. It has some foreign areas like Lao Waitan
where you can go out and it's more built for foreigners, but then all the rest of it is
just Chinese. You have, like, little markets, little areas where you can buy street food,
lots of people on e-bikes! Well on-campus you have everything you need.
You have good restaurants, different restaurants, different styles of food, Western food, Chinese
food, so I think it offers something for everyone, for every single taste.
It's actually a beautiful place. I don't really feel like I'm on a campus it's more like being
in a park. That's the same for my dorm. I live with a view, a spectacular view.
I've never been on a campus with this many societies. They also have the sports facilities
close by. I recently started to play tennis and I think
on this campus there are so many possibilities to do sports.
Well the best thing about studying here would be the people. We have a very good environment
now amongst the students both international and the few Chinese people I've come to know
so far. It's easy to get a good knowledge. You can talk to people about their experiences
and learn from each other. The professors here are coming from all over
the world. In the School of Economics we have many professors from the UK and from Australia
and they really have very strong academic and research skills and they have published
many papers in the top journals. Yes, over sixty percent of our students take
up the option of study abroad, and they can go to either our UK campus, or to our Malaysia
campus, or to one of our many partners around the world. We're part of a group called Universitas
21, which opens opportunities up in Australia, Canada and elsewhere.
A lot of our undergraduate degrees are now maturing out and we're concentrating more
on developing masters and postgraduate programmes, research activity, that maps onto China's
needs, to the province's needs, to Ningbo's needs. And that's exciting and it's compelling.
To be able to work with this body of students in China at this time, they are so dynamic,
so exciting, it's a privilege and I'm learning every day from my job.
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