Will Chinese Universities Go Global?

Amid the flurry of press coverage surrounding President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in September, his gift of a dawn redwood tree to be planted on the campus of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) program in Seattle received little attention. However, the GIX program, a collaboration between China’s prestigious Tsinghua University and the University of Washington, reflects a next step in China’s soft power strategy. More...

The African Union has merged its ministerial bodies on science and education with the aim of providing better advice to governments, it was announced last week.
 
The move has resulted in the dissolution of the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology, and the creation of a new body, the Specialised Technical Committee on Education, Science and Technology (STC-EST). This committee met for the first time late last month, it emerged at the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary, on 3-8 November - See more at: http://www.scidev.net/global/governance/news/african-union-merges-science-education.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global/global_rss.xml#sthash.Yctvn3gh.dpuf