Aligarh: Four regular and two former Chinese students at the Department of Foreign Languages at Aligarh Muslim University have received scholarships from the government of China to pursue higher studies in Chinese universities.

Prof Mohammad Azher, Dean, the Faculty of International Studies and Chairman, the Department of Foreign Languages said that three students who completed their BA in Chinese this year, namely, Azib Khan, Arshi Arif and Firdaus Alam have been awarded a one-year full scholarship by the China Scholarship Council to study at the Yunnan Normal University, Wuhan University and Beijing Language and Culture University, respectively. In contrast, another student, Abdullah Yameen, received a Taiwanese Huayu Enrichment Scholarship to study at the Fu-Jen Catholic University of Taiwan.

Two students, Asif Siddiqui and Salman Naim, who have passed MA from the department, will study Advanced Chinese for a year at the top Chinese university Tsinghua University on full scholarship from the Government of the People’s Republic of China.

Prof Azher congratulated these students and said, “While these scholarships reflect the individual student’s hard work and intellectual abilities, they also highlight our university’s commitment to fostering global academic partnerships”.