Every British university which has set up an outpost in China has a branch of the Chinese Communist Party for staff and students, a new report has claimed.
A scheme called Joint Educational Institutes (JEIs), a centrepiece of UK-China academic relations, allows British universities to partner with a Chinese counterpart to teach and award British degrees. There are at least 45 of them.
The report, by the China Strategic Risks Institute, has identified policy documents and media reports showing that each JEI hosts a branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with party members sitting on administrative committees for the campuses.
The report will raise fresh questions over Chinese influence in British universities, and particularly the risks to academic freedom after the new Labour government
