Accessibility of Sino-African Educational Partnerships in Higher Education: History, Achievements, Challenges, and Directions

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Author(s): Chak Pong Gordon Tsui (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 14
Source title: The Future of Accessibility in International Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Henry C. Alphin Jr. (Drexel University, USA), Roy Y. Chan (Indiana University, USA)and Jennie Lavine (University of Hull, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2560-8.ch003

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / Higher Education

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By analyzing current literatures (2012-2016) and using author's personal experience in bringing one Chinese university's students to have service learning projects in Africa, this chapter aims at 1. reviewing the current forms of and 2. explore the alternative way of Sino-African educational partnerships in higher education since the establishment of Peoples' Republic of China in 1949. The literatures have informed that Sino-African educational partnerships have received positive feedback. However, cultural challenges associated with the existing educational partnerships may result in lowering the partnerships quality. The motivations of the African students to pursue their studies in Chinese universities may subsequently be lowered. To deal with these potential problems, the chapter argues that one way to handle the cultural issues could be to let both Chinese and African students experience their cultures physically before educational partnerships.

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