UCL and China: visit from Peking University delegation

A delegation from Peking University (PKU) visited UCL this week to explore how both institutions can work together more closely in the future. The group from PKU, led by its President Professor Wang Enge, met with UCL academics and senior staff to discuss existing and future collaborations across a range of subjects, including engineering, medicine and the arts. Topics discussed included potential co-operation on PKU's International Hospital Project, undergraduate teaching in the liberal arts, the new PKU campus and UCL's Olympic Park project. UCL's existing links with PKU include a student exchange agreement, links between the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity and PKU's School of Medical Humanities, and a long-term collaboration between PKU's School of Archaeology and Museology and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Provost and President Michael Arthur said: "China is a priority country for UCL. UCL has many active research partnerships with Chinese universities, as well as nearly 2,000 undergraduate and postgraduate Chinese students currently studying with us. So we are delighted to welcome to UCL today such a senior PKU delegation, from a world ranking university with which UCL already has significant connections.