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1. 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;
2. the cost to Britain of scholarship exchanges
in the humanities and of developing academic
cooperation, which the Chinese have proposed
should be shared;
3. the cost of the necessary reinforcement of
staff in Feking.
The above three elements add up to a requirement for
additional funding from the British side amounting to
£440,000 in 1979/80 and rising to £1,050,000 in 1985/86.
Details are given in the attached schedule.
7. By redeployment and cutting down on other programmes,
the British Council have already doubled their budget for
China in the current year (from £60,000 to £120,000) to
meet earlier Chinese requests for extra exchanges; and the
Royal Society and Great Britain/China Centre have also made
additional contributions. There is, however, a limit to
what can be done through the redeployment of existing
funds. I should therefore be grateful for your agreement
to our responding to the Chinese proposals by the provision
of the necessary additional funds to the Contingencies
Fund.
8.
I am copying this to the Secretary of State for
Education and Science.
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