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Overview

China awards scholarships to 13 Samoan students

Commitment Year•2011Country of Activity•SamoaSector•EducationFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2011
Start (actual)
Sep 1, 2011
End (actual)
Jun 1, 2012

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Scholarship Council
  • Government of Samoa

Loan description

China awards scholarships to 13 Samoan students

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On 18 August 2011, the Chinese Ambassador hosted a reception sending off 20 Samoan students who won scholarships from the Chinese government to study in China during the 2011/12 academic year. The value of each scholarship is unknown. The awardees arrived in China in early September 2011. Out of 20 students, 13 received the Chinese Government Scholarship under the bilateral scholarship scheme, and the remaining 7 (#73682) were awarded through the China-Pacific Islands Forum (umbrella Record ID#73681). Of the new arrivals, three were postgraduate students doing masters degrees. At that time, Samoa currently had the largest number of scholarship students (64) from the Pacific Islands in China, with a third of them studying in Beijing universities and the rest attending universities in other major cities, such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, Dalian, and Harbin.