China Scholarship Council students are all over the world. But what are they having to do, and agree to, to get there? The PIE investigates.

The University of Surrey has struck up a new education partnership with the China Scholarship Council to provide a joint scholarship.

China will fund 18,000 students to study abroad in 2013 through the government funded China Scholarship Council (CSC), an increase of 2,000 students from the 2012 offering. The scholarships will cover 6,000 students for graduate study and 12,000 for undergraduate degrees or to take roles as senior researchers or visiting scholars.