Over the past few years, british universities have developed more ties to china. Manchester university has research links with nine chinese universities. Liverpool also has an effiliated campus near shanghai. There are over a hundred and forty thousand undergraduate or post graduate students enrolled in British universities. That is up from 50 % from five years ago. About a third of non e u. k. International students across all universities in UK.
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