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CES PhD student Xuemeng Cao Awarded Doctoral Scholarship by Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)
Xuemeng Cao (CES), a PhD student supervised by Emily Henderson and Ian Abbott, has been awarded a full scholarship from the prestigious Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) for her doctoral studies. CSC is a non-profit institution which is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The objective of the CSC is to provide financial assistance to the Chinese citizens wishing to study abroad and to the foreign citizens wishing to study in China in order to develop the educational, scientific and technological, and cultural exchanges and economic and trade cooperation between China and other countries. Xuemeng's research interests are related to higher education and education internationalization. Her doctoral project is entitled ‘Enhancing the Employability of International Students: Chinese students on taught Master's programmes in social sciences’.