China will deepen reforms to improve the quality of postgraduate education, according to Du Zhanyuan, Vice Minister for Education. New measures will include the establishment of a more flexible training model that can be tailored to the needs of individual postgraduate students, the provision of more mentorship programmes, and improvements to quality assurance systems. More overseas joint programmes will also be encouraged to increase internationalisation at postgraduate level. Currently, the number of overseas joint programmes at undergraduate level outweighs those at postgraduate level. The UK has 19 approved joint postgraduate programmes with China, accounting for 10 per cent of all Sino-foreign joint postgraduate programmes and ranking fifth behind the US, Australia, Hong Kong and France.

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