Peng Zhou

Professor of economics, university dean of international and Confucius Institute director at Cardiff University

Articles by Peng Zhou

Person reaching for money from a tree that also contains books. To illustrate students seeing a degree as a credential for employment.

If students are seeking jobs more than knowledge, HE must respond

The right question is not whether degrees produce earnings. It is whether higher education produces knowledge, capability, opportunity and social contribution in a changing economy, says Peng Zhou

By Peng Zhou

10 August

Birds rest on a power line as a jet is on final approach to the airport. To illustrate TNE (transnational education)

Has TNE become the future of internationalisation?

With visa restrictions in the traditional ‘Big Four’ host nations, and source countries seeking to build their domestic capacity in an uncertain world, transnational education is regarded by many as having come of age. But are universities pursuing it for the right reasons? Four writers have their say

By Peng Zhou

22 May

Young Chinese man in a suit being knocked over by downward economic graphs. His umbrella is inside out and Union Jack bowler hat has blown off. To illustrate that MBAs are an increasingly bad deal for Chinese students.

MBAs are a worsening deal for Chinese students – and university treasurers

Many of the business schools that prop up universities, in both China and the West, are bankrolled by Chinese families’ ambition. But amid economic slowdown and a growing recognition of the limits of Western practices, the return on investment is now being questioned, as three academics explain

By Jie Wu

8 January

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Peng Zhou

Articles by Peng Zhou

If students are seeking jobs more than knowledge, HE must respond

Has TNE become the future of internationalisation?

MBAs are a worsening deal for Chinese students – and university treasurers