He also highlighted the rumbling anxiety among universities about the funding of postgraduate education.

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Professor Paul Wellings of the 1994 Group, research-intensive universities, welcomed the review of postgraduate education, saying "there are a number of issues that need urgently to be examined".

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The CDGDC is entrusted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to evaluate and appraise the academic degrees and postgraduate education.

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