Greater China Education, School & University: News & Discussions

[TaiShang]

Chinese universities are expanding overseas.
This is a good development.

while others worry that the new Oxford branch may push Chinese ideology on Western students.

Fascism in abject way. When they are allowed to open campuses around China (and many missionaries during colonial period of parts of China), but, when China decides to open just one campus, it becomes Chinese ideology imposed on Western naïveté.

What's wrong with Chinese ideology, by the way; in the end, some British youth will end up being smarter.

 

[shadows888]

Fascism in abject way. When they are allowed to open campuses around China (and many missionaries during colonial period of parts of China), but, when China decides to open just one campus, it becomes Chinese ideology imposed on Western naïveté.

What's wrong with Chinese ideology, by the way; in the end, some British youth will end up being smarter.

it's called double standards, something the west have got down to a science.

 

[TaiShang]

Peking University to start enrollment for Oxford campus
CRI, April 10, 2017

The site where the Peking University is to set as their British campus. [Photo: cnr.cn]

Peking University is set to start staff recruitment and student enrollment for its British campus in the city of Oxford in June.

The elite university in Beijing signed with the Open University in February to purchase a 15-acre campus in Oxford for 8.8 million pounds, or 10 million U.S. dollars. The location will serve as an overseas campus for the university's HSBC Business School.

The school will enroll 100 international students when it opens in August 2018, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of Peking University.

This is the first time that a Chinese university has used its own finances to set up and manage a school in a foreign country.

Yu Changjiang, a scholar in education, described the move as a remarkable step for China's higher education to go global.

"Previously HSBC Business School has been recruiting teaching staff and introducing resources from abroad, but now it has begun its process of going global, thus forming bilateral exchanges between its foreign counterparts," said Yu, "this will actually become a major tendency for China's higher education industry, which will gradually develop its own characteristics and advantages to be shared internationally."

HSBC Business School's finance, management and economic courses will feature Chinese business cases to help students become better acquainted with the Chinese economy and reforms.

Students will take the first year course in the Oxford campus and the second year at the schools' campus in Shenzhen.

Those on the campus in the southern Chinese city will also be allowed to select elective courses on the campus in Oxford.

 

[beijingwalker]

China's Peking University Buys Campus Space Near Oxford
Education | Agence France-Presse | Updated: April 07, 2017 11:14 IST

Foxcombe Hall, a manor of the 8th earl of Berkley, has been bought by China's Peking University

LONDON: China's Peking University is buying a 19th-century manor house near Oxford in southern England to use as a campus in a multimillion-dollar deal, the estate agent handling the deal told AFP on Thursday.

Foxcombe Hall, which has a vaulted banqueting hall, Italian-style gardens and a lake, is to become a branch of Peking University's HSBC Business School.

"I can confirm we've exchanged contracts with completion due next month," said Jon Silversides, partner at estate agency Carter Jonas.

The price of the transaction has not been released but the estate was reportedly originally listed at £7 million ($8.7 million, 8.1 million euros).

"I can confirm that we're regarding around that figure," Silversides said, adding: "Their proposal, I believe, which has also been in the press, is for a business school".

The campus located just outside Oxford, a hub of British academic excellence, will not be part of the world-famous University of Oxford.

Spread over 6.17 hectares (15.25 acres), the campus centre piece is the original house, built in the 1890s, which also includes a tower and an original carriage drive.

Other buildings were then subsequently added, and the complex had been used by the Open University -- one of the UK's biggest universities -- since 1976.

http://www.ndtv.com/education/chinas-peking-university-buys-campus-space-near-oxford-1678454

 

[MultaniGuy]

Good job by China

 

[ahojunk]

China's Peking University to open campus in Oxford
CGTN
Published on 21 Apr 2017

Students in the UK will soon be able to attend one of China's best higher education institutions. The HSBC Business School of Peking University (PHBS) has announced plans to open a new campus in Oxford.

 

[beijingwalker]

Universal Studios Beijing to be “35% Chinese”
New park to incorporate traditional Chinese elements and movie images
14th March, 2017

The new Universal Studios theme park currently under construction in Beijing will incorporate 35% of “Chinese elements”, Beijing Business Today reports.

The newspaper cited Duan Qiang, chairman of Beijing Tourism Group, which is involved in the project, as saying research is being conducted into what content to incorporate. As Universal Studios is a movie-based concept, there are concerns that Universal doesn’t have enough popular movies based on Chinese stories.

As such, initial performances at the park are likely to be predominantly American, but more Chinese elements will be included in later phases.

Duan added that the entire three-phase project will cover a total area of 4km² and will require a total investment of CNY100 billion (US$14.5bn). Work on the project, which is located in the eastern Tongzhou district of Beijing, started in October 2016 and the first phase is expected to open in 2020.

The branding of the theme park’s two hotels has also been revealed, with one being a Universal hotel and the other a Nuo Hotel, as part of an agreement with Beijing Hotel Nuo Company.

The new park will become the sixth Universal Studios theme park in the world, the third in Asia and first in China.
http://www.traveldailymedia.com/248175/universal-studios-beijing-to-be-35-chinese/

 

[beijingwalker]

a total investment of CNY100 billion (US$14.5bn)

That's a hell lot of money for a park..

 

[cirr]

Tsinghua University Won ASC17 Championship Big Time

MAY 05, 2017

WUXI, China, May 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --�The final round of the 2017 ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC17) ended in Wuxi. Tsinghua University stood out from 20 teams from around the world after a fierce one-week competition, becoming grand champion and winning the prize.

Tsinghua University secured ASC17 Champion

As the world's largest supercomputing competition, ASC17 received applications from 230 universities around the world, 20 of which got through to the final round held this week at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi after the qualifying rounds. During the final round, the university student teams were required to independently design a supercomputing system under the precondition of a limited 3000W power consumption. They also had to operate and optimize standard international benchmark tests and a variety of cutting-edge scientific and engineering applications including AI-based transport prediction, genetic assembly, and material science. Moreover, they were required to complete high-resolution maritime simulation on the world's fastest supercomputer, "Sunway TaihuLight".

The grand champion, team Tsinghua University, completed deep parallel optimization of the high-resolution maritime data simulation mode MASNUM on TaihuLight, expanding the original program up to 10,000 cores and speeding up the program by 392 times. This helped the Tsinghua University team win the e Prize award. MASNUM was nominated in 2016 for the Gordon Bell Prize, the top international prize in the supercomputing applications field.

The runner-up, Beihang University, gave an outstanding performance in the popular AI field. After constructing a supercomputing system which received massive training based on past big data of transportation provided by Baidu, their self-developed excellent deep neural network model yielded the most accurate prediction of road conditions during the morning peak.

The first-time finalist, Weifang University team, constructed a highly optimized advanced heterogeneous supercomputing system with Inspur's supercomputing server, and ran the international HPL benchmark test, setting a new world record of 31.7 TFLOPS for float-point computing speed. The team turned out to be the biggest surprise of the event and won the award for best computing performance.

Moreover, Ural Federal University, National Tsing Hua University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University won the application innovation award. The popular choice award was shared by Saint-Petersburg State University and Zhengzhou University.

"It is great to see the presence of global teams in this event," Jack Dongarra, the Chairman of the ASC Expert Committee, founder of the TOP500 list that ranks the 500 most powerful supercomputer systems in the world, and professor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the United States and the University of Tennessee, said in an interview. "This event inspired students to gain advanced scientific knowledge. TaihuLight is an amazing platform for this event. Just imagine the interconnected computation of everyone's computer in a gymnasium housing 100,000 persons, and TaihuLight's capacity is 100 times of such a gym. This is something none of the teams will ever be able to experience again."

According to Wang Endong, initiator of the ASC competition, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the chief scientist of Inspur Group, the rapid development of AI at the moment is significantly changing human society. At the core of such development are computing, data and algorithms. With this trend, supercomputers will become an important infrastructure for intelligent society in the future, and their speed of development and standards will be closely related to social development, improvement in livelihood, and progress of civilization. ASC competition is always committed to cultivating future-oriented, inter-disciplinary supercomputing talents to extend the benefits to the greater population.

ASC17 is jointly organized by the Asian Supercomputing Community, Inspur Group, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, and Zhengzhou University. Initiated by China, the ASC supercomputing challenge aims to be the platform to promote exchanges among young supercomputing talent from different countries and regions, as well as to groom young talent. It also aims to be the key driving force in promoting technological and industrial innovations by improving the standards in supercomputing applications and research.

http://itbusinessnet.com/article/Tsinghua-University-Won-ASC17-Championship-Big-Time-4945031

 

[Offshore]

Wait! Why no India here?
The self proclaimed supa powa IT
No where in the game...

 

[AndrewJin]

Wait! Why no India here?
The self proclaimed supa powa IT
No where in the game...

Pls do not drag omnipotent supa powans into such meaningless competition, it is not the glorious call centre job!

 

[beijingwalker]

China Heads New Alliance of Asian Universities

Members of the Schwarzman Scholars take a selfie as they line up for a group photo before a ceremony to officially open the scholar program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

May 06, 2017

China has organized an alliance of Asian universities to compete with western educational institutions. The alliance will share resources and increase exchanges of students and teachers.

The new organization is called the Asian University Alliance (AUA). It was launched in late April at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Chinese university was elected as chair of the group that includes a total of 15 universities from 14 countries and areas.

A goal of increasing ‘Asian wisdom’

China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong spoke at opening ceremonies at of the AUA on Saturday in Beijing. She said the new organization was important to China.

Liu said the educational alliance will provide “Asian wisdom to resolve regional and global problems. She added that the group will combine “outstanding global talents with an international perspective and to serve regional development.”

Other universities included in the alliance are Peking University, the University of Tokyo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and Seoul National University in South Korea.

The Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, King Saudi University in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates University, Malaysia’s University of Malaya and the University of Indonesia are also in the group.

Others members of the alliance are the University of Yangon in Myanmar, the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, and Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan.

People who attended the first board meeting of the AUA confirmed that Tsinghua University has offered to fund the organization with $1.5 million dollars. Members currently pay a fee of $5,000.

Rankings and research seen as very important

The goal of the group is to help Asian schools rise in the world rankings. The top universities in the world are mainly in western developed nations like the United States and Britain.

High rankings are important to attract research money from private business and international organizations. Rankings also help in attracting the best teachers and students from around the world.

Tan Eng Chye is Deputy President and Provost of the National University of Singapore. He said, “Ranking is invariably based more on research because, if you look at educational outcomes, it is harder to gauge.”

He also said research spending is important. “And if you pool in a lot of money into research, then, I think, you will go up quite quickly (in the rankings).”

Tan said that governments should play an important part in funding research. Only five percent of the research has an immediate application, he said. So industry often does not want to support the other 95 percent that does not lead to new products immediately.

The desire to pool research and develop a greater exchange of students and teachers caused several Asian universities to join the AUA.

“This alliance will help us refocus on Asian universities in a lot of areas like student mobility, faculty exchange, and joint research,” said Prasanna M. Mujumdar, director of IIT, Bombay.

China could gain from reducing its dependence on western institutions for high technology and it is looking towards Asian universities.

Some observers compare the move to China’s creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in 2014. The bank has increased China’s leadership position in Asia and expanded its international influence.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/china-heads-new-alliance-of-asian-universities/3838325.html

 

[jetray]

China Heads New Alliance of Asian Universities

Members of the Schwarzman Scholars take a selfie as they line up for a group photo before a ceremony to officially open the scholar program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

May 06, 2017

China has organized an alliance of Asian universities to compete with western educational institutions. The alliance will share resources and increase exchanges of students and teachers.

The new organization is called the Asian University Alliance (AUA). It was launched in late April at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Chinese university was elected as chair of the group that includes a total of 15 universities from 14 countries and areas.

A goal of increasing ‘Asian wisdom’

China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong spoke at opening ceremonies at of the AUA on Saturday in Beijing. She said the new organization was important to China.

Liu said the educational alliance will provide “Asian wisdom to resolve regional and global problems. She added that the group will combine “outstanding global talents with an international perspective and to serve regional development.”

Other universities included in the alliance are Peking University, the University of Tokyo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and Seoul National University in South Korea.

The Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, King Saudi University in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates University, Malaysia’s University of Malaya and the University of Indonesia are also in the group.

Others members of the alliance are the University of Yangon in Myanmar, the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, and Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan.

People who attended the first board meeting of the AUA confirmed that Tsinghua University has offered to fund the organization with $1.5 million dollars. Members currently pay a fee of $5,000.

Rankings and research seen as very important

The goal of the group is to help Asian schools rise in the world rankings. The top universities in the world are mainly in western developed nations like the United States and Britain.

High rankings are important to attract research money from private business and international organizations. Rankings also help in attracting the best teachers and students from around the world.

Tan Eng Chye is Deputy President and Provost of the National University of Singapore. He said, “Ranking is invariably based more on research because, if you look at educational outcomes, it is harder to gauge.”

He also said research spending is important. “And if you pool in a lot of money into research, then, I think, you will go up quite quickly (in the rankings).”

Tan said that governments should play an important part in funding research. Only five percent of the research has an immediate application, he said. So industry often does not want to support the other 95 percent that does not lead to new products immediately.

The desire to pool research and develop a greater exchange of students and teachers caused several Asian universities to join the AUA.

“This alliance will help us refocus on Asian universities in a lot of areas like student mobility, faculty exchange, and joint research,” said Prasanna M. Mujumdar, director of IIT, Bombay.

China could gain from reducing its dependence on western institutions for high technology and it is looking towards Asian universities.

Some observers compare the move to China’s creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in 2014. The bank has increased China’s leadership position in Asia and expanded its international influence.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/china-heads-new-alliance-of-asian-universities/3838325.html

Universities in US are run like corporates ,I dont think asian universities should get into this ranking rat race. Universities in asia are more accessible to public rather than being elitist gangs in US.

 

[PeaceGen]

China Heads New Alliance of Asian Universities

Members of the Schwarzman Scholars take a selfie as they line up for a group photo before a ceremony to officially open the scholar program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

May 06, 2017

China has organized an alliance of Asian universities to compete with western educational institutions. The alliance will share resources and increase exchanges of students and teachers.

The new organization is called the Asian University Alliance (AUA). It was launched in late April at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The Chinese university was elected as chair of the group that includes a total of 15 universities from 14 countries and areas.

A goal of increasing ‘Asian wisdom’

China’s Vice Premier Liu Yandong spoke at opening ceremonies at of the AUA on Saturday in Beijing. She said the new organization was important to China.

Liu said the educational alliance will provide “Asian wisdom to resolve regional and global problems. She added that the group will combine “outstanding global talents with an international perspective and to serve regional development.”

Other universities included in the alliance are Peking University, the University of Tokyo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the National University of Singapore, and Seoul National University in South Korea.

The Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, King Saudi University in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates University, Malaysia’s University of Malaya and the University of Indonesia are also in the group.

Others members of the alliance are the University of Yangon in Myanmar, the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, and Nazarbayev University of Kazakhstan.

People who attended the first board meeting of the AUA confirmed that Tsinghua University has offered to fund the organization with $1.5 million dollars. Members currently pay a fee of $5,000.

Rankings and research seen as very important

The goal of the group is to help Asian schools rise in the world rankings. The top universities in the world are mainly in western developed nations like the United States and Britain.

High rankings are important to attract research money from private business and international organizations. Rankings also help in attracting the best teachers and students from around the world.

Tan Eng Chye is Deputy President and Provost of the National University of Singapore. He said, “Ranking is invariably based more on research because, if you look at educational outcomes, it is harder to gauge.”

He also said research spending is important. “And if you pool in a lot of money into research, then, I think, you will go up quite quickly (in the rankings).”

Tan said that governments should play an important part in funding research. Only five percent of the research has an immediate application, he said. So industry often does not want to support the other 95 percent that does not lead to new products immediately.

The desire to pool research and develop a greater exchange of students and teachers caused several Asian universities to join the AUA.

“This alliance will help us refocus on Asian universities in a lot of areas like student mobility, faculty exchange, and joint research,” said Prasanna M. Mujumdar, director of IIT, Bombay.

China could gain from reducing its dependence on western institutions for high technology and it is looking towards Asian universities.

Some observers compare the move to China’s creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in 2014. The bank has increased China’s leadership position in Asia and expanded its international influence.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/china-heads-new-alliance-of-asian-universities/3838325.html

I'm liking it

 

[cirr]

Chinese supercomputer newbs smash student cluster-building record

New top speed set by Weifang proto-boffins

The winning Weifang University team receiving their awards

9 May 2017 at 03:02, Dan Olds, OrionX

HPC Blog Yet another record has fallen at the Asia Supercomputer Community Student Cluster Competition. This time, it’s the HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradients) mark.

Little-known Weifang University in Shandong Province, which also set a new student LINPACK record, notched a score of 992.333 GFLOP/s, handily topping the rest of the field.

Only China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University came close to Weifant’s score, with the whiz kids from traditional student clustering powers Tsinghua and NTHU farther back in the pack.

Semi-newcomer Hong Kong Baptist and veteran team Shanghai Jiao Tong grab honorable mention status due to their scores being so far above average.

HPCG is a challenging application both to man and machine. It’s much more complex than LINPACK and does a much better job of simulating today’s HPC workloads.

The benchmark has multiple components that, when run, put incredible strain on even the most robust hardware. For comparison sake, even the largest supercomputers in the world only reach a fraction of their HPCG potential when running this benchmark. You can see some of the scores for your favorite supercomputers here.

As if being a much better simulation of real-world HPC workloads isn’t enough, HPCG is also much quicker to run – coming in at only 30 minutes. What’s not to like?

While it’s been used a few times by the major cluster competitions, it’s not a required application. I’d like to change that – I think that HPCG should be part of the compulsory program, just like LINPACK. This would give the students a different challenge and stretch their minds just a little bit more.

With that in mind, I’m now tracking world student records in HPCG, and here’s how we look with only two data points:

As we can see from the chart, the top HPCG increased significantly (almost 21 per cent) over only five months. We haven’t seen any major hardware upgrades from the manufacturers, so I’d guess the increase is due to the students better understanding the benchmark and applying more sophisticated tuning.

The average HPCG result rose by nearly 24 per cent, meaning that the entire field of teams at ASC17 did a better job on the benchmark in aggregate versus the SC16 competitors.

I hope that HPCG becomes a standard benchmark at future cluster competitions. It will give me more to analyze and write about – and it’s really all about me, right? ®

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/09/record_number_of_conjugates_gradiented/