Peking University is set to start staff recruitment and student enrollment for its British campus in the city of Oxford in June.
北京大学将于今年6月在牛津建造英国分校，员工招聘与招生工作即将开始。
The elite university in Beijing signed with the Open University in February to purchase a 15-acre campus in Oxford for 8.8 million pounds, or 10 million U.S. dollars. The location will serve as an overseas campus for the university's HSBC Business School.
The school will enroll 100 international students when it opens in August 2018, coinciding with the 120th anniversary of Peking University.
This is the first time that a Chinese university has used its own finances to set up and manage a school in a foreign country.
Yu Changjiang, a scholar in education, described the move as a remarkable step for China's higher education to go global.
"Previously HSBC Business School has been recruiting teaching staff and introducing resources from abroad, but now it has begun its process of going global, thus forming bilateral exchanges between its foreign counterparts,” said Yu, “this will actually become a major tendency for China's higher education industry, which will gradually develop its own characteristics and advantages to be shared internationally."
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