The University of Guyana (UG) and the Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DUFL) in China have reached an agreement for UG to offer a Minor in Mandarin Chinese studies and also for the development of a Bachelor’s Degree in Mandarin at the UG.
This agreement was reached recently when a team from The University of Guyana comprising Vice-Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Planning and International Engagement Dr Barbara Reynolds, Director of the Confucius Institute, UG, Al Creighton, and Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute Ma Tao, recently met in China with officials of the Dalian University of foreign Languages (DUFL) for the first historic official meeting of the Board of the Confucius Institute, UG.
The meeting was hosted by DUFL, the UG’s partner institution in China for the operation of the Confucius Institute and it was held on their campus in the city of Dalian, China.
Representing DUFL were Vice-Chancellor Professor Liu Hong, Dean of the Multi-language Base in Dalian for the International Promotion of Chinese Language, Professor Sun Yuhua and Li Fan of the International Office at DUFL.
Professor Sun Yuhua pledged the full support of DUFL with assistance from Hanban – the headquarters for Confucius Institutes in China – for the programmes. UG will continue to offer Mandarin as one of the languages that UG students may choose in addition to Spanish, French and Portuguese. Mandarin will also be available as one of the foreign language requirements of the new School of Entrepreneurship and Business and Innovation (SEBI) at the UG which was launched last Friday.