This is not Kansas

[nmg]

Today is another UCAS day, so in order to give myself a treat before that starts, I'm looking at postgraduate applications. I'm currently assessing an application from a Chinese student who has provided a full transcript of his degrees. This transcript includes such wonderfully named courses as:

• Dialectics of Nature
• Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism
• Review of Chinese Traditional Culture
• Military Theory

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I've got the material from NARIC concerning equivalence, who reckon that his masters is equivalent to a UK masters. The candidate has a good track record in industrial R&D, and a good publication record, which helps.

But yes, I've had similar warnings before, and I've seen that promising Chinese candidates on paper can turn out to be very different in person.