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2.
3. The British Council will now have a major
role to play in China, given its administration of the existing exchange programme (which is
no different in principle, though very different in scale, from the present proposals), its capability in the English language teaching field (including the recruitment of teachers), and the applicability to the proposed programme of
several schemes which it already operates
elsewhere.
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We have assumed that the Chinese will, as
indicated to Shirley Williams, be responsible
for funding virtually the whole of this
expansion programme (which could cost as much as
£11 million per annum when fully in operation).
However there are certain costs which could not
be passed on to the Chinese. These (excluding
the proposed Royal Society Exchanges with the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, which are the
subject of separate negotiations) would be:
(i)
the administrative costs of managing the
programme in the UK, including the
placing of Chinese students and the
recruitment of British teachers to
work in China;
/(ii)
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