Bid to boost collaboration, attract more Chinese students

Plans to increase the movement of academics, students and innovation between Ireland and other countries are being boosted this week.

As a €500,000 fund to encourage more partnership between third-level staff is announced by the Government today, representatives of English-language colleges have been touring China to try and boost numbers coming here to study.

Education Minister Richard Bruton and Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Minister of State for Higher Education, said the International Academic Mobility Programme would allow between 100 and 150 academics from universities, institutes of technology, and other colleges a chance to collaborate with strategic partner institutions around the world.