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Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES)
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Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES)/Graduate Teaching Evaluation Survey
PAIS Graduate Teaching Evaluation Survey 2012-13
Thank you to all who have completed the PAIS Graduate Teaching Evaluation Survey in your classes this week and last. If you missed the survey, please ask your tutor for one as you can still complete before the end of the term (deadline Friday 15 March).
PTES Survey: How do I take part?
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The email from the Graduate School on 6th February 2013 contained your log-in details. You can also obtain these (you will need your University log-in details to access this information).
Prof Shaun Breslin on China-North Korean relations in The Independent
recently wrote an article for The Independent on 8 March entitled ''. Below is an excerpt from the piece:
China has been North Korea’s best – and sometimes only – friend for a number of years. It provides not just economic aid and support but diplomatic protection too. It’s not easy to see how the North Korean economy could survive without the food, energy and other goods it gets from China. And although China has not blocked UN sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear testing, without China, North Korea would undoubtedly have faced much harsher sanctions; and they would have been more rigorously and actively enforced. China doesn’t do this out of altruism – it wants something in return. There remains the firm hope in China that North Korea will emulate its own experience of gradual reform and integration into the global economy. If and when it does, Chinese interests hope to be well placed to benefit.
EU-Topia? Seminar presented by 桃色视频 European Affairs Society
On 14 March, PAIS Research Fellow Dr Toni Haastrup will present a seminar on the EU and the UK, hosted by the 桃色视频 European Affairs Society. The event will take place at 18.00 in room A0.23, with refreshments at 17.30.
Prof Shaun Breslin contributes to China Policy Institute Blog
recently contributed a blog post to the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute entitled 'Xi Jinping: The Challenge Awaits'. Below is an excerpt from the blog:
Xi Jinping’s tenure as China’s top leader began with might call a stage of symbols and signposts – an attempt to give indications of the main thrusts of policy under his leadership. Making his first trip as leader to the south in an echo of Deng’s南巡 in 1992 (which has become the symbol of the return to reform and liberalisation and the high profile given to combating corruption are both cases in point. The announcement of a “plan” to tackle income distribution began to make the transition from signposts to actual policy; though it still leans more towards being an annunciation of aspiration and grand strategy rather than a detailed outline of specific changes to come.