Yojana Sharma   |   17 September 2011   |   Issue: 0189

In its bid to raise its global research profile, China has awarded research grants worth more than US$19 million to the overseas branch campus of a British university to produce "at least 100 new scientists". Under the scheme announced on Saturday 17 September the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, a branch of the British university, will award at least 100 full PhD scholarships in the fields of energy, manufacturing and the digital economy.