Category UKCT news

On the 26th of March, 2024, the English universities regulator, the Office for Students, issued new proposals for guidance about free speech and academic freedom at UK universities. UKCT are glad that the proposed guidance reflects our submission to the OfS’s consultation, and our understanding of existing PRC government schemes at UK universities.

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On the 25th of April, Mark Kitto will put on a performance of his acclaimed one-man play, Chinese Boxing, in aid of UK-China Transparency. Tickets and full details are available here.

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UKCT has launched a new project combining AI with volunteer power in order to translate Chinese sources for use by policy-makers, academics, researchers and the general public.

The first two documents added are announcements by Tsinghua University and Nanjing University. The announcements detail the merging of the universities’ Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee offices with the general university administrative office.

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Over the past two weeks, UK-China Transparency has published hundreds of pages of data on UK universities’ financial ties to China and on the role of Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) on campus.

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