After posting a 14% gain in applications from Chinese students for the class that started in the fall of 2011, the M.
To compensate for this, he described a plan for 10, 000 Chinese students to train at U.S. universities to learn the basics of innovative thinking (and open Chinese universities to a like number of Americans).
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Another direct cost may be felt by Chinese students looking for college places abroad.
In May, jingdaily.com posted a roundup of Chinese-language articles that looked at the possible benefits a depreciating euro would have for Chinese travelers, shoppers and overseas students.
Even before news that Chinese students were among the casualties, Chinese people had mostly expressed sympathy for Boston and those injured in the attack, with many applauding the response by city authorities, regular citizens and the media.
Starting this year military training has become mandatory for all Chinese middle school, high school and university students.
This sheer numerical dominance, plus the fact that China has the world's fastest-growing economy, has made Mandarin Chinese attractive as a foreign language for more American students.
Brands and McDonald's, agreed to worker representation in 2007 after being slammed in the Chinese press for breaking the law in their payment of students (the charges turned out to be false).
Meanwhile, Chinese colleges will continue to arrange employment for non-paying students by posting them to jobs in government departments or state-owned enterprises.
The same Institute study show a record-high enrollment in the U.S. from abroad, up 6% in the latest year. (Growth had dropped off in the aftermath of the 2008-9 financial crisis, as it did after the 2001 terrorist attack and visa stringencies.) The Chinese component rose 23% among graduate students and 31% for undergrads.
Japanese and Chinese students gathered on campus during lunch break to raise cash donations for Japan's quake and tsunami survivors.
Many fear that it could make it even harder for university graduates to find jobs (last year 6.3m students graduated from Chinese universities, up from 1m in 1999, so competition is fierce).
The school beefed up its recruiting effort in China three years ago, said Dean Mark Zupan, after recognizing that the Chinese education system's focus on quantitative skills would provide a good grounding for students in its finance-heavy programs.
While the number of Chinese students at UW tripled this year, to about 600, they still account for only about 10% of all students, and Washingtonians still account for about 75%, he says.
Chinese students nowadays shuttle between China, EU, US like Canadians going to Tim Hortons for coffee.
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Saudi Arabia now sends students on scholarships to Chinese universities, and some rich Saudis, more used to shopping for Gucci in New York or London, are heading to once-obscure Chinese cities to buy furniture.
On the Boston University campus Wednesday morning, the president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Shuang Guo, said that the group was planning a memorial service for Ms. Lu.
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