University vice-president says emigration wave and retirements have caused share of scholars from Hong Kong to drop, with mainland Chinese readily filling vacancies.
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Coronavirus visa uncertainty turns foreign students against China Kinling Lo kinling.lo@scmp.com Hundreds of thousands of international students are waiting anxiously to learn if they will be able to return to China and resume their studies. Photo: Shutterstock
Hundreds of thousands of foreign students - many from developing countries - who left China in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic are facing hardship and uncertainty, with no word from Beijing as to when they will be able to return to their universities.
For Muhammad - not his real name - it was a dream come true when he won a full scholarship with a monthly stipend to study both his masters and PhD in China. Now, he says, he just wants to wake up from the nightmare and he wishes he had chosen to study somewhere else.