New interest at international education exhibition

Universities and organisations from countries that have not traditionally been popular destinations for Chinese students attended the annual China International Education Exhibition Tour for the first time, including institutions from the United Arab Emirates, writes Yang Meiping for the Shanghai Daily.

Organised by the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange of the Ministry of Education, the exhibition tour kicked off in Beijing on 7 May and arrived in Shanghai, its fourth stop, last week with about 90 schools and educational organisations.

“We’ve seen the number of Chinese students coming to the UAE in the past three years increase from 300 to around 800,” said Liu Xin, a manager at Dubai-based Oriental Wise Educational Consultancy. The number of students the company has helped to enrol at universities in Dubai has increased from five or six a year at the end of the last decade to between 60 and 80 in recent years.
Full report on the Shanghai Daily site