Vice-chancellor sees value in small classes, access to professors

Editor's Note: China Daily is publishing a series of reports on universities jointly established by education institutions from China and overseas. As the colleges get busy with recruitment, our reporters visited them to talk with senior leaders, teachers and students.

When China opened its arms to international universities, Denis Simon, executive vice-chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, saw the jointly founded institution as transforming Chinese higher education.

"The idea of actually allowing seven, and soon to be nine, foreign universities that have campuses in China is something in the '80s and '90s you wouldn't have thought would happen. ... It's an exciting opportunity, and I see it as a watershed moment in Chinese higher education," Simon said during an interview with China Daily.