B) Overseas campuses:
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“I chose University of Nottingham because it is one of the best in the world”
“Because it’s truly international”
“I chose the University of Nottingham because it gives me a edge of future career”
“For cutting-edge research”
“Because it will give me a bright future”
“There are seven half thousand universities in the world and Nottingham is in the top 1%.”
Interview: Professor Roger Woods (Provost and CEO, Nottingham Ningbo)
“The true best known international in place Nottingham in firm in the top 100, it reflects the quality of the research, the quality of teaching, of course it carries the quality of brand through the University of Nottingham Ningbo China , the University of Nottingham Malaysia campus ”
Interview: Professor David Greenaway (President and Vice-chancellor, the University of
Nottingham)
The University of Nottingham provides unique opportunity for study and to experience completely different culture and education environment
Interview: Professor Ian Pashby (Vice-President, Nottingham Malaysia)
“Our internationalisation strategy ultimately focuses on attracting the best students and the best staffs to come and study at all of our campuses. By attracting the best staffs, we can undertake world-leading research and that gives our students benefits of working with the leading teachers and researchers of their generations ”
Interview: Professor Christine Ennew (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, The University of
Nottingham)
“We teach in English and we teach the same programme that teach in Nottingham”
“There are staffs move back and forward between the campuses”
“These are degrees awarded by the University of Nottingham and the course doing in China, the cost is lower ”
“The campus in Malaysia is the first UK campus around the world, and it’s still the leading one. We got staffs from many countries and something like 25 different nationalities. We bring different experiences in their teaching”
“When students graduated, they have that distinctive advantage, being at top university of the world”
“Our university offers literally world opportunity for our students going out, for students coming in”
“I’m on exchange from Nottingham, it’s giving me experience of how to interact with people from different places.”
“I decided to come and exchange to Ningbo, because I would be allowed to look into Asian life style and into Asian business culture.”
“Research is a life blood at any leading university around the world, and Nottingham has an enviable reputation”
Interview: Profes sor Chris O’Brien, OBE (Nottingham University Business School,
Nottingham Ningbo)
“Malaysia and China allow us to develop diversify that research capacity in very interesting ways. In Malaysia, we’re leading on a major united nations initiative called crop for the future.”
“We need ‘crop for the future’ for climate of the future, and we’re the only university that actually be selected to be the coast-host service international centre, great competition.
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Interview: Professor Sayed Azam-Ali, Vice President (Research) (Nottingham Malaysia)
“Crop for the future is something will bring great benefit to the University, it will further fill the expansion, it will bring high quality staff to research in those areas, along with that it will attract high quality students.
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“The Centre of Sustainable Energy Technology has been set up in China to support the sustainable development agenda .
What we’re doing here is to look at all the factors and which contribute to pollution and then develop a replicable technology.
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Interview: Professor Jo Darkwa, Director of CSET (Nottingham Ningbo)
“Most of energy we’re using renewable, this kind of building isn’t very usual here in China.”
“If we can do thing that change ways building and to build a power station in the United
K ingdom, that’s great. If you can do that in China, that’s spectacular.”
“The Division of Engineering in Ningbo is well placed in China, because China is the factory of the world. The Division of Engineering is attracting the first class super professor in
Nottingham, coming here to set up top research centre.”
Interview: Dr Chan Kuan Yoong, Acting Head, Engineering (Nottingham Ningbo)
“In the UK, we have a research centre called the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistic.
And on the Ningbo campus, we h ave sister version of this and we’re conducting research in
Chinese language, bilingualism and also in trilingualism which is increasingly common in this part of the world.
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Interview: Dr Roshni Mooneeram, Head, English (Nottingham Ningbo)
“One of the really exciting piece of research that we’re doing is extracting drugs from rain forest plants, so we use ethanol pharmacology and we go out and talk to people who use medicines from rain forest plants for generations, we would take those plants and try to design new novel drugs.
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Interview: Professor Stephen Doughty, Dean, Faculty of Science (Nottingham Malaysia)
“Research in the Faculty of Engineering is now blooming, we have a number of areas of strengths, for examples, development to super capacitors, project related to environment, student projects are in form by research.
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Interview: Professor Michael Cloke, Dean, Faculty of Engineering (Nottingham
Malaysia)
“The research I involve in is to design fibreglass and build a race car.”
“Links for industry is one of the thing that Nottingham UK do very (very) well, and it’s also model that we’re persuading here, it presents with real world problems and it gives our students exposure to realworld environment, and it’s extremely important part of our research agenda.
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“We have a vast network of these companies, all keen to take our students.”
“We’ve got a number of links with creative industry and also media and network, cultures here in China, we also extend that into internship opportunities for our student s.”
Interview: Dr Parl Gladston, Head, International Communications (Nottingham Ningbo)
“We try to help the student to get their dream job, so we give them work experiences, they’re real business project , and it’s not theoretical. We’re funding awarded project in Beijing, we’re brining clean drinking water to 300 million rural Chinese. The students believe this is a really important work that they’re doing. When they go to interviews, they say I have done this job.”
“We start actively taking in students and intern as well as those who have graduated from
University of Nottingham, most of them we offered employment.”
Interview: Dr Suresh Chandran, VP Business Development, Inforvalley (Kuala Lumpur)
“That helps me to get a good job and I’m hoping to carry on to my PhD.”
“We plan to collaborate into much more serious engagement with the University of
Nottingham.”
“Ningbo is a quite cool city, it’s about 2 hours from Shanghai.”
“It has the international aspect to major port cities, so it’s one of the common here.”
“We have old temples and also we have like ... square which is very modern and very fashionable.”
“I really like the campus, it’s really new and all the facilities are new.”
“The accommodation here is absolutely beautiful.”
“The facility is quite good, I think it’s the best in China.”
“Malaysia is really (really) cool.”
“I’m obsessed with KL, I love Petronas Towers.”
“It’s so easy to get to KL as well.”
“I take off on Friday to visit small island.”
“The facilities here are brilliant.”
“Accommodations are nice, it’s really close by to lecture.”
“My mum always worries about me being away from home, but I’m staying in Malaysia campus, it’s like very safe.”
“There is near almost every week, something is happening with rambling society.”
“I love it here. It is really different that atmosphere, the people, the food.”
“Study here in Ningbo is already given a lot of opportunities and allows me to engage with a new culture, learn a new language.”
“Being an exchange, it shows that you’re willing to take on new challenges.”
“My career prospect will be further.”
“China needs talent who not only knows about the international environment but also familiar with the Chinese market.”
“I know being graduated from the University of Nottingham degree, will advance so many people .”
“I know being graduated from the University of Nottingham degree, advantage so many people.”
“I find the experience to be very enlightening, I would therefore say it’s a life-changing for me.”
“The standard and quality definitely very high, definitely world-class.”