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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº to feature in 'World Universities' series

9 June 2005

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is to feature in the major Chinese TV series World Universities, an ongoing project aimed at providing the youth of China with an insight into the teaching, research and life at some of the world's leading institutions.

It is expected that the programme on the world's universities will be broadcast early in 2006. A crew from Chinese national TV (CCTV) has been on the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº campus over the last week to film some of the main buildings of interest and interview the President and Provost of ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, Professor Malcolm Grant, about ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's history and its links with China. Professor David Norse

The CCTV team also interviewed the Pro-Provost for China, Hong Kong and Macao - Professor David Norse - who talked about the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's and the UK's first professor of Chinese, Samuel Kidd (appointed in 1836), outlined ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's strategy for relations with China and described some of the links with China's major universities including the joint ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº/Peking University International Centre for Chinese Heritage & Archaeology.

¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's medical credentials were outlined by Professor Salvador Moncada, Director of the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, and Professor Xin Lu, Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, which together with similar research groups in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Medical School form the largest concentration of biomedical research in Europe.

The crew went on to film the BA student show at the Slade School of Fine Art and interview its director, Professor John Aiken. Professor Hugh Griffiths gave an account of modern electronics and the impact Ambrose Fleming's inventions have had on communication today. Professor Iain Borden, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, and three of his students talked about their work and an important new building project in China.

Professor Norse said: "The film is an important opportunity to raise ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's profile in China. Although ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is the only UK university apart from Oxford and Cambridge offering the full range of academic subjects from archaeology to zoology, we are not well known in China. The film will help to correct this situation and highlight some of the world-class research going on at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº."

To find out more about ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's links with China use the link below to download the pdf ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº & China.



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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº & China