It’s easy to get lost in the world of be-suited masters practising Tai Chi in the local park, or the souvenir calligraphy that so many people return home with each year from China, but the opportunity to bring your own cultural treasures to the far east can be a different…>
Career Development
Top Tips for Relocating to China
Relocation to China, especially to somewhere that is not a large, diverse metropolitan area, implies a major overhaul in terms of lifestyle, habits and mental frameworks. It is best to see it as an opportunity for professional and personal growth, and it is potentially a very exciting and interesting experience…>
Top Tips for Starting a New Teaching Job in China
Starting academic work in China entails becoming aware that you will enter a completely new environment, no matter how experienced a teacher and scholar you might be. Communication and organization might be difficult at first, both for the obvious reason of the language barrier (unless you happen to be fluent…>
Choosing Venues of Conference Events in China
The world is getting smaller, as the saying goes. It is also getter larger, when one moves one’s eyes across the globe and realises that vast countries like China are capable of holding more and more world-class events. Compared to those uniformly high-standard and tightly-controlled events organised in the developed…>
How To Make Sense Of Labour Market Information
Labour Market Information/Intelligence (LMI) are terms that can sound a little dry. You might think that they involve detailed data around employment rates, salaries and industry demand. Which of course they do. But it’s also a lot more. If you’re wondering how to use LMI in your job search and/or…>
Visiting Scholar at College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Hazem Abdelnabby is Associate Professor of Benha University, Egypt. He awarded his PhD in life sciences from The Technical University-Braunschweig, Germany in 2006 and worked in the USDA-Nematology Lab, Beltsville, USA during 2008. He has a patent and more than 10 publications in SCI international journals. He has almost 20…>
Is A Research Job In China For Me?
China can be at first challenging for the non-native. It is not only that one might be moving to an unfamiliar environment, with a new language, new food and a new job, but perhaps more so that there is a unique approach to doing business, making friends and addressing problems…>
Top 10 Tips For Adapting To The Culture In China
1 – Leave your preconceptions at home Don’t let what you see and hear about China and its people in the news influence your judgment. China is rich in history and culture, but it is still a developing country. A lot of progress has been made in many respects,…>
National Natural Science Fund Grants – Processes and Applications
About the grants. In mainland China, most personal research support for discrete projects is provided through the National Natural Science Fund in the form of NSFC Basic Research Grants. The NSFC grants are aimed at promoting and financing basic and applied research in China and cover all natural sciences,…>
A Beginners Guide to Key Terms in Chinese Higher Education
211 Programme The 211 programme confers “National Key University” status on its member universities and colleges. The top 6% of China’s universities are included in the programme (the name of which refers to the top 100 universities in the 21st century). The 211 members together receive 70% of total science…>