International students education from the BRICS countries in China: progress, problems and recommendations (2013-2017)

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss international students education from the BRICS countries in China from 2013 to 2017. During this period, with the promotion of the Chinese government and the cooperation of other BRICS countries, the total number of international students from the BRICS countries studying in China had continued to grow, finally approaching 45,000. Degree students took up a main share, the number of them was increasing steadily and the students educational level was increasingly optimized. The number of scholarship students continued to grow, and the proportion had continuously increased. The majors distribution was more balanced. Meanwhile, there were still some problems in international students education from the BRICS countries in China, including unbalanced development among the four BRICS countries, mutual recognition of higher education qualifications and degrees not fully covered, limited number and unitary source of scholarships, lack of high quality of higher education and international students teaching, and insufficient external information introduction and dissemination, etc. Based on the statistics released by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and combining quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis, the paper focuses on progress made and the problems of international students education from the BRICS countries in China during the period from 2013 to 2017, and gives some recommendations for its future development. To demonstrate my ideas, the paper is divided into four parts. After the introduction, the second part will present an analysis of progress made in the international students education from the BRICS countries in China. Its problems will be analyzed in the third part. At last, the fourth one, there is a conclusion and some recommendations.