5,000 more students a year to study overseas

The Ministry of Education has launched a five-year graduate program to send about 5,000 students a year to the world's best universities, including Harvard and Yale in the U.S., and Oxford and Cambridge in England.
Vice-Minister Yuan Guiren said Monday: "The country has expanded its national scholarship program in a bid to cultivate more top-level talent."
The number of graduate students granted a national scholarship this year will be roughly five times that in 2006, Yuan said. [View Full Article]