It's Getting Tougher for African Students to Get a PhD in China
The China in Africa Podcast
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What's Happening in China?
I was wondering if you could give us a little bit of context about where the Chinese academic system is in relation to rankings and particularly to journal citations at the moment. There's been for a long time, there's been this increase in ramping up pressure on these universities to publish more and more. I've heard several Chinese academics kind of mentioning that there's a kind of a counter-pressure on them nowWhere it's actually getting harder for example to go to foreign conferences. And there's kind of shifts in this ongoing focus on international journals and the Western journal publication system.
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