Ken, I am associated with the China University of Geosciences Beijing as a Specially-Appointed Professor, and I travel there frequently for weeks at a time to give lectures and advise students, although not for a year now.
CUGB and sister universities, such as CUGW (Wuhan), are PACKED with students. And not only Chinese students but I have met quite a few African students being trained in China. China is all over sub-Saharan Africa, and perhaps training is part of the package that was negotiated with the various national governments. The problem is the nature of student training in China. It is very hierarchical - the Professor is always right and is never questioned, so critical, independent thought is not prioritized. I have also found generally that Chinese students are very siloed - the various Departments stay very separate from each other. To my mind this is anathema to what we need going forward, which is a broad, holistic, inquisitive approach to geoscience training. Alan On 2020-11-17 14:22, Ken Robertson via SEGMIN wrote: > > If the Geosciences are facing a potential extinction event in the west > does anyone know the number of students in China and Russia? Are the > universities in those countries hosting and training students from > other countries? > > > > Ken Robertson > > > > Fwd: Geotalks Online (19.11): Chris King on "Avoiding an > > Extinction-Level Event in the Geosciences Education Sector" > > (Alan G Jones (Geophysics)) > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > > *From: *[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent: *Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:10 AM > *To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject: *SEGMIN Digest, Vol 29, Issue 18 > > > > > > > ----------------------- > SEGMIN community mailing list service ([email protected]). > Change your personal options here: > https://lists.geosoft.com/mailman/options/segmin/alan.jones.geophysics%40gmail.com > Colleagues can join here: https://lists.geosoft.com/mailman/listinfo/segmin > Archives: https://lists.geosoft.com/mailman/private/segmin/ > NOTE that <Reply> will reply to all members of the list. -- Alan G. Jones, P.Geo., MRIA, Fellow AGU Senior Professor Emeritus Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Adjunct Professor Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=fbT-K4MAAAAJ ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3482-2518 SCOPUS ID: 7407105442
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