United Kingdom-China branch campus employees leaving en masse, citing Chinese censorship

Faculty at two branch campuses shared by universities in the United Kingdom and China are leaving in significant numbers while blaming Chinese censorship for limiting academic freedom, according to a report in Times Higher Education.

Staff members at the University of Liverpool and the University of Nottingham, both of which have joint venture universities in China, blamed, among other things, a crackdown on free expression.

“I had become more and more concerned with the political and social climate in China and how this was seeping into UNNC,” he said, referring to the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.