The August 12, 2008 issue of Insidehighered.com reports on an interesting international edudation model for undergraduate dual degree programs involving Chinese and American universities. The 1+2+1 students according to the article "start and end in China in a program structure intended to avert U.S. visa denials — by conditioning degree completion upon a student’s return to China — and to lower the cost of obtaining an American undergraduate degree (by halving the time spent studying abroad).
the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has provided member institutions an "umbrella structure for 1+2+1 programs" in cooperation with the China Center for International Educational Exchange in Beijing.
You can access the article here: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/08/12/121
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