Foreign student quota to expand

China plans to increase the quota for government sponsored overseas students, an official with the China Scholarship Council (CSC) said Monday. The country will offer 20,000 overseas students scholarships in 2010, doubling that of 2007..................Overseas students who are awarded scholarships will be given subsidies covering living and tuition expenses......."China has paid great attention to education, and overseas students are also very important," Liu said. He said these students will help Chinese universities become more international. The country is expected to welcome 500,000 overseas students by 2020, including self-sponsored ones, Liu said. China increased the living subsidy for overseas students by almost 50 percent this year from that of last year....................[View Full Article]