Isolation, Hybridity or Biculturalism? Chinese Students’ Integration Dilemma in the West

By Flair Shi, Currently Studying Comparative Literature (MA) at University College London, Graduate of the School of English University of Nottingham Ningbo, BA in English Language and Literature. Recently, an article titled “Foreign Language Di

Vocational education, why we need it for China’s higher education reform

By Dr. Youqing Fan, Assistant Professor at the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. China’s higher education system has long been directed towards cultivating academic talents, whilst the value of technique and skill-oriented vocational education has been downplayed. This tendency is reflected in the way that high school students are …

Reflections on being a student at UNNC

By Felicity Woolf, First Year Part Time Student, MA Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China. It’s exactly 40 years since I started my BA degree at the University of Exeter. Now, I’m enrolled as a part-time student, studying for an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies. In the first semester I took two …