China's top universities will rival Oxbridge, says Yale president

“China’s top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned. Professor Richard Levin, speaking to the Guardian on a trip to the UK, said Chinese institutions would rank in the world’s top 10 universities in 25 years’ time, squeezing out some of the west’s elite campuses …” (more)

[Jessica Shepherd, Guardian, 2 February]

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