An international college of a leading Chinese university is seeking a UK partner university to host annual summer camps about English language and culture learning.

The camps should be from two and half weeks to three weeks in length and held on an annual basis starting from July 2017. The participating students are 18 to 20 years old, and the camp should take place in the host university’s campus.

The Chinese international college would like to use this camp as a starting point for a long-term partnership with the UK host university. This long-term partnership will explore the possibility of sending Chinese students on exchange to the UK university, joint articulation courses, joint research, etc. It is expected that when the agreement on the first summer camp is signed, a Memorandum of Understanding on further developing joint programmes will also be signed.

The international college has successfully partnered with a university in Australia on a similar student camp. The cost of the existing programme is about AUS$ 2500 per student for a 3-week programme, which covers tuition, accommodation, meals and airport pick-up. The Chinese college hopes to apply the same model to a UK partner and understands that costs in the UK might be higher than in Australia.  Actual cost shall be discussed further by both parites. The first summer camp will act as a pilot project to test the cooperation between the UK and Chinese partner, before investigating other collaborative projects.

The students will stay on in the UK for one more week after completing the summer camp to do some sightseeing, which will be wholly arranged by the Chinese international college.

Benefits

The participating UK university will:

• have the opportunity to develop a long-term partnership with the Chinese university to collaborate in multiple areas
• receive financial income through the summer camp
• potentially recruit new international students from the Chinese partner university.

Areas of responsibilities for the two collaborating parties

Services provided by the UK partner university

The English language camps should include:

• tuition during weekdays (mainly English language learning and study of western culture)
• accommodation in student halls of the UK host university
• three meals per day
• extra-curricular activities and cultural sightseeing for  two weekends (costs can be charged additionally)
• airport pick-up from the UK airport to the host university
• a letter of invitation to support the visa application process
• a certificate of completion at the end of the summer camp
• free of charge accommodation and meals to one Chinese supervisor (who speaks English) for every 10 to 15 students. The size of the group will be between 20 and 30 students.

Services provided by the Chinese university

The Chinese university will:

• undertake all promotion and recruitment of students in China
• provide one supervisor for every 10 to 15 students to assist the students throughout the summer camp
• arrange the students’ UK visa applications and international ticket booking
• organise the students’ 4^th week in the UK
• provide students with guidance before they leave for the UK.

Brief introduction of Chinese partner

The university was established in the 1920s and is a national ‘211’ university, located in a capital city in South China. The university has 20 colleges and nearly 4,000 staff, and offers 70 undergraduate programmes, 80 graduate programmes and 6 doctoral programmes. The university has a student population of 24,000 students for academic programmes and more than 20,000 students for vocational courses. With well-equipped research institutes, the university has received grants for hundreds of national, ministerial and provincial projects. It has partnerships and academic exchanges with more than 100 universities and research institutes across 28 countries and regions. More than 400 international experts and scholars have taught, given lectures or co-operated on research projects in the university. The university was one of the first 66 universities in China authorised to enroll overseas students. Since 1962, the university has been a popular overseas study destination for students from more than 40 countries across the world.