The Department being the first within the University to offer a professional Master programme, almost 100 students have already applied.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

He will teach graduates in the international relations master's programme in the upcoming term.

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The Department will start with a two-year Master's programme in journalism and communication while research programmes are planned for the future.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Significantly, many kindergarten and pre-school teachers report that RTLP child-graduates have greater reading capacity and are therefore able to easily master new literacy skills than their classmates who never participated in the programme.

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The programme includes a Catholic nun advising her HIV-infected choir master not to use condoms with his wife because "the virus can pass through".

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The programme aims to send 200 students a year to take a year-long master's degree at Tsinghua - in subjects including public policy, international relations, economics and business, and engineering - from 2016.

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