China Emerges as the Top Destination For Pakistanis Studying Abroad

[RiazHaq]

http://www.riazhaq.com/2017/05/china-emerges-as-top-destination-for.html

China has emerged at the top destination for Pakistani students studying abroad with 19,000 of them in China this year. This figure is more than 3 times the 6,141 Pakistani students currently enrolled in the US universities, according to data available from reliable sources.




Foreign Students in China:

China is hosting over 440,000 foreign students in 2017, up 35% from 2012. No other Asian country has as many foreign students as China does today, according to Shanghiist.

The countries sending the largest number of students to China are South Korea, the United States and Thailand, followed by Pakistan, India, Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Japan and Vietnam, according to data from China's Ministry of Education as reported by Chinese media.

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC):

The number of students from countries involved in China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative, also known as The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road that includes China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has significantly increased. In 2016, students from the 64 countries in the initiative saw 200,000 students coming to China to study, representing an increase of 13.6% compared with one year before.


British Education in Joint Degree Programs Outside UK. Source: UKCISA

British Education in Pakistan:

Even after the dramatic increase of Pakistani students going to China, the United Kingdom still remains the top source of international education for Pakistanis. 46,640 students, the largest number of Pakistani students receiving international education anywhere, are doing so at Pakistani universities in joint degree programs established with British universities, according to UK Council for International Student Affairs.

The number of students enrolled in British-Pakistani joint degree programs in Pakistan (46,640) makes it the fourth largest effort behind Malaysia (78,850), China (64,560) and Singapore (49,970).

China's Soft Power:

China is now taking a page from the successful playbook of the Americans and the British to project their soft power through education. The Chinese government is making significant investment in scholarships and facilities to foster a greater understanding of the Chinese culture and language globally, and expand Beijing's soft power.

Summary:

China has emerged at the top destination for Pakistani students studying abroad with 19,000 of them in China this year. This figure is more than 3 times the 6,141 Pakistani students currently enrolled in the US universities. Chinese government is investing in scholarships and facilities to entice foreign students, particularly those from countries such as Pakistan that are part of China's Silk Road initiative, in an effort to project its soft power.

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[Place Of Space]

Hope guys enjoy the time in China and gain the knowledge you intended to learn.

 

[RiazHaq]

Arvind Subramanian, economic adviser to Narendra #Modi: #India will catch up with #China in 20 or 30 years" https://www.ft.com/content/6aa3ec6a-3013-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a via @FT

One of India’s most important economists on globalisation and how he expects the country to catch up ‘with China in 20 or 30 years’


Arvind Subramanian owes both his job and his plush New Delhi residence to the same man: India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, who hired him as the government’s chief economic adviser in 2014. Subramanian hurriedly departed from his role at a US think-tank and moved back home to work in the finance department, only to find himself lodged temporarily in a humdrum guest house. “The finance minister was very sweet,” he says. “He rang the housing minister, and said, ‘I want him to get a very nice house.’ ”


Subramanian now lives in New Moti Bagh: a leafy estate in the heart of the capital, where grace-and-favour bungalows are granted only to elite civil servants, making it arguably the most powerful neighbourhood in India. “This place has been called the new Forbidden City,” he says, in reference to the walled imperial palace in Beijing, the heart of Chinese government for five centuries. India’s equivalent is less forbidding: a compound of 116 white bungalows and 10 apartment blocks nestled amid pleasant parks, through which the resident officials, judges and military top brass go for their morning walks.

Subramanian is sitting in the spacious living room of his own six-bedroom, two-storey home, dressed in a white linen shirt, black jeans and brown leather loafers. At 57, he looks trim and speaks with rapid, Tigger-ish energy. Outside, the mid-afternoon sunshine is falling on his front garden, whose verges are filled with lush green shrubs.

The house resembles a colonial-era bungalow, with a roof terrace on the second floor and two sets of servants’ quarters at the rear. It is actually newer than it looks, he says: the entire area was rebuilt about a decade ago, hence the “new” in New Moti Bagh. Though spartan when he arrived — “there was maybe a wooden bed, a cabinet, but basically nothing else” — the interior is now pleasantly decorated with furniture he and his wife Parul shipped back from Washington DC, including a series of Impressionist-style paintings by his elderly father, a retired civil servant.

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Subramanian admits he has learnt to watch his step on delicate topics, in public at least, giving an example of debates about protecting cows, which some conservative Hindus consider sacred. “I was asked for my views on the beef ban in Mumbai and said jokingly that if I speak on this I’ll probably lose my job — and that went on the front page of The Indian Express,” he recalls. “In that case I was told to be a bit more careful.”


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Modi’s support for globalisation is deeper than most people realise, he adds, a flip side of the fact that India is now a much more open economy than commonly acknowledged. The country’s future growth is not without challenges, however. “We have this whole ambivalence about the private sector which we’ve never really overcome,” he says. Yet he remains bullish, claiming that he expects India to catch up with China “within the next 20 or 30 years or so”.

This will happen even as globalisation is set to slow down somewhat, he argues, albeit only compared with the unusually rapid growth in trade seen during the 2000s. “‘Hyper-globalisation is dead, long live globalisation,’ is how I like to put it,” he says. “If you look crudely at the postwar period, 80 per cent of globalisation is driven by technology, 20 per cent by policy. And that 80 per cent, you can’t stop.”

 

[Place Of Space]

Arvind Subramanian, economic adviser to Narendra #Modi: #India will catch up with #China in 20 or 30 years" https://www.ft.com/content/6aa3ec6a-3013-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a via @FT

One of India’s most important economists on globalisation and how he expects the country to catch up ‘with China in 20 or 30 years’


Arvind Subramanian owes both his job and his plush New Delhi residence to the same man: India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, who hired him as the government’s chief economic adviser in 2014. Subramanian hurriedly departed from his role at a US think-tank and moved back home to work in the finance department, only to find himself lodged temporarily in a humdrum guest house. “The finance minister was very sweet,” he says. “He rang the housing minister, and said, ‘I want him to get a very nice house.’ ”


Subramanian now lives in New Moti Bagh: a leafy estate in the heart of the capital, where grace-and-favour bungalows are granted only to elite civil servants, making it arguably the most powerful neighbourhood in India. “This place has been called the new Forbidden City,” he says, in reference to the walled imperial palace in Beijing, the heart of Chinese government for five centuries. India’s equivalent is less forbidding: a compound of 116 white bungalows and 10 apartment blocks nestled amid pleasant parks, through which the resident officials, judges and military top brass go for their morning walks.

Subramanian is sitting in the spacious living room of his own six-bedroom, two-storey home, dressed in a white linen shirt, black jeans and brown leather loafers. At 57, he looks trim and speaks with rapid, Tigger-ish energy. Outside, the mid-afternoon sunshine is falling on his front garden, whose verges are filled with lush green shrubs.

The house resembles a colonial-era bungalow, with a roof terrace on the second floor and two sets of servants’ quarters at the rear. It is actually newer than it looks, he says: the entire area was rebuilt about a decade ago, hence the “new” in New Moti Bagh. Though spartan when he arrived — “there was maybe a wooden bed, a cabinet, but basically nothing else” — the interior is now pleasantly decorated with furniture he and his wife Parul shipped back from Washington DC, including a series of Impressionist-style paintings by his elderly father, a retired civil servant.

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Subramanian admits he has learnt to watch his step on delicate topics, in public at least, giving an example of debates about protecting cows, which some conservative Hindus consider sacred. “I was asked for my views on the beef ban in Mumbai and said jokingly that if I speak on this I’ll probably lose my job — and that went on the front page of The Indian Express,” he recalls. “In that case I was told to be a bit more careful.”


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Modi’s support for globalisation is deeper than most people realise, he adds, a flip side of the fact that India is now a much more open economy than commonly acknowledged. The country’s future growth is not without challenges, however. “We have this whole ambivalence about the private sector which we’ve never really overcome,” he says. Yet he remains bullish, claiming that he expects India to catch up with China “within the next 20 or 30 years or so”.

This will happen even as globalisation is set to slow down somewhat, he argues, albeit only compared with the unusually rapid growth in trade seen during the 2000s. “‘Hyper-globalisation is dead, long live globalisation,’ is how I like to put it,” he says. “If you look crudely at the postwar period, 80 per cent of globalisation is driven by technology, 20 per cent by policy. And that 80 per cent, you can’t stop.”

If I don't remember wrongly, India had surpassed China in 2012. @AndrewJin

 

[Shotgunner51]

China is hosting over 440,000 foreign students in 2017, up 35% from 2012

The countries sending the largest number of students to China are South Korea, the United States and Thailand, followed by Pakistan, India, Russia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Japan and Vietnam

China has emerged at the top destination for Pakistani students studying abroad with 19,000 of them in China this year. This figure is more than 3 times the 6,141 Pakistani students currently enrolled in the US universities.

These numbers are impressive, I used to think the top overseas destination for Pakistani students is either UK or North America. Welcome Pakistani students to China!

 

[beijingwalker]

Welcome to your brotherly country China, hope they have a happy stay.

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

with so much educated and skilled people Pakistan will emerge as a technologically advance country.In 2002 after higer education commission was formed people started getting higher educaation and now trend for foreign education after graduation is rising. Such country can't be underestimated.

 

[beijingwalker]

Well if no one else is giving you VISA, or if people are calling you a terrorist sponsoring state and not giving you due recognition, then your are only left with the option of going to a country which is slightly easy to get into

Chinese universities grab two of top three spots on 2017 Asia University Ranking
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON MAR 17, 2017 6:40 PM

China's reputation for higher education continues to hit new heights with universities in mainland China nabbing two of the top three spots in the Times Higher Education's 2017 Asia University Rankings.

In this year's list, Peking University placed second while Tsinghua University placed third. Both of the Beijing universities ranked only behind the National University of Singapore.

Compared with last year, Beida managed to break a second place tie with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, while Tsinghua jumped both Nanyang and the University of Hong Kong in the annual rankings.

Out of the top 300 universities in Asia, 54 of them were located in mainland China. Here are the institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau that made the top 50:

2) Peking University (Beijing)
3) Tsinghua University (Beijing)
5) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
6) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
11) Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
12) City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
15) University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei)
16) Fudan University (Shanghai)
17) Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
18) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai)
19) Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)
25) Nanjing University (Nanjing)
43) University of Macau (Macau)
47) Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou)
49) Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
49) Wuhan University (Wuhan)

Each year, Chinese universities are climbing higher and higher in these world rankings, helping to attract more foreign students and experts. In 2016, there were some 440,000 foreign students studying in China, 35% increase from 2012, and the most of any country in Asia.
http://shanghaiist.com/2017/03/17/2017_asia_university_rankings.php

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

Well if no one else is giving you VISA, or if people are calling you a terrorist sponsoring state and not giving you due recognition, then your are only left with the option of going to a country which is slightly easy to get into

Sab ka sath sab ka vikas

 

[Viny]

Chinese universities grab two of top three spots on 2017 Asia University Ranking
BY ALEX LINDER IN NEWS ON MAR 17, 2017 6:40 PM

China's reputation for higher education continues to hit new heights with universities in mainland China nabbing two of the top three spots in the Times Higher Education's 2017 Asia University Rankings.

In this year's list, Peking University placed second while Tsinghua University placed third. Both of the Beijing universities ranked only behind the National University of Singapore.

Compared with last year, Beida managed to break a second place tie with Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, while Tsinghua jumped both Nanyang and the University of Hong Kong in the annual rankings.

Out of the top 300 universities in Asia, 54 of them were located in mainland China. Here are the institutions in mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau that made the top 50:

2) Peking University (Beijing)
3) Tsinghua University (Beijing)
5) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
6) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
11) Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
12) City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
15) University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei)
16) Fudan University (Shanghai)
17) Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
18) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai)
19) Zhejiang University (Hangzhou)
25) Nanjing University (Nanjing)
43) University of Macau (Macau)
47) Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou)
49) Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
49) Wuhan University (Wuhan)

Each year, Chinese universities are climbing higher and higher in these world rankings, helping to attract more foreign students and experts. In 2016, there were some 440,000 foreign students studying in China, 35% increase from 2012, and the most of any country in Asia.
http://shanghaiist.com/2017/03/17/2017_asia_university_rankings.php

There is no denial that China has some good universities, infact for every country that is developing fast has to have a strong educational core. But if they are given an opportunity / visa to US/ UK/ Australia or some other developed country, they would rush there first then to China.

 

[beijingwalker]

In infrastructure and facility wise now Chinese universities are already the top class in the world, China is eyeing for top universities academic wise, that may take longer than facilities and infrastructures.

There is no denial that China has some good universities, infact for every country that is developing fast has to have a strong educational core. But if they are given an opportunity / visa to US/ UK/ Australia or some other developed country, they would rush there first then to china.

Then you are wrong, almost everyone urban Chinese family can afford sending their children studying abroad now, but most families which did that is because their children can't pass the droconian Chinese university entrance exam or cant get a score good enough to go to good schools in China, that's why in China we have a name for them "高考失败者“ Those who failed college entrance exams.

China's gaokao the world's toughest school exam

 

[Viny]

In infrastructure and facility wise now Chinese universities are already the top class in the world, China is eyeing for top universities academic wise, that may take longer than facilities and infrastructures.


Then you are wrong, almost everyone urban Chinese family can afford sending their children studying abroad now, but most families which did that is because their children can't pass the droconian Chinese university entrance exam or cant get a score good enough to go to good schools in China, that's why in China we have a name for them "高考失败者“ Those who failed college entrance exams.

China's gaokao the world's toughest school exam

Sorry, I think you got me wrong, when i said "They" it means Pakistani friends.
If given an opportunity to study in US or other developed country they would prefer it over China.

I don't expect many Chinese to go to US for higher studies, most of the people who to US for studies outside top 5 universities are going there to get some kind of work visa there and earn a good money and its just a channel to get into USA rather then a reason of getting good education.

 

[kankan326]

Chinese universities grab two of top three spots on 2017 Asia University Ranking

5) University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
6) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
11) Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
12) City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
17) Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)

Why there are so many Hong Kong universities on the list? What big contributions these universities made for science or technology? Is it only because they are "English teaching"? Or in fancy words to say, "More international"? It's really ridiculous that some universities have good rank just because their locations are in "English" sphere. I highly doubt some English speaking countries like Canada, Australia, new Zealand actually have good universities. But still every year thousands of Chinese students go there for a "better education". Were they misled by the "rank"?

 

[AViet]

There is no denial that China has some good universities, infact for every country that is developing fast has to have a strong educational core. But if they are given an opportunity / visa to US/ UK/ Australia or some other developed country, they would rush there first then to china.

The problem is not the quality per se, but about the chance to stay at the host country with high salary and less competitive, comfortable life.

Nowadays, university quality, including R&D, is very difficult to judge. It is up to man-made criteria, which vary and can be biased.

The thinking of most young people nowadays are like that "Chinese universities may be better, but who care. I want to live a free and enjoyable life (i.e. partying more, spending more and work less), so I should choose an Australian, New Zealand, US or Canadian university to study. After that, as these countries are less competitive, I can easily find a job and continue to live a comfortable life, unlike in China or Japan, where they have to work so hard.

 

[Tamil_Manithan]

Why there are so many Hong Kong universities on the list? What big contributions these universities made for science or technology? Is it only because they are "English teaching"? Or in fancy words to say, "More international"? It's really ridiculous that some universities have good rank just because their locations are in "English" sphere. I highly doubt some English speaking countries like Canada, Australia, new Zealand actually have good universities. But still every year thousands of Chinese students go there for a "better education". Were they misled by the "rank"?

I don't think that it has something to do with English, because the ranking of Indian universities is not very good. And of Pakistans are utter poor. And Bangladesh universities are even not listed in the first 300. South Asian universities are generally English medium.