China to further support small, medium-sized airports in remote regions

14:10, May 06, 2020

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  Wuhan’s Dongxihu district adjusts its COVID-19 risk level to medium

  One new confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in Central Chinas Hubei Province on Sunday, prompting the citys Dongxihu district to adjust its COVID-19 risk level from low to medium, while other regions in Hubei remained at a low level.Senior students walk through a temperature measuring station to enter Hubei Wuchang Experimental High School in Wuhan, central Chinas Hubei Province, May 6, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)The government advised citizens to stay vigilant about the local situation and take personal precautions. If citizens have symptoms like coughing or fever, they are advised to go to a fever clinic for further testing.(Compiled by Zhang Pei)

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  Students expected to pay full fees for remote learning

  File photo: APUniversity students in England will pay full tuition fees even if academic institutions do not reopen their premises in the autumn and can only teach online, the government has revealed.No decision has yet been made on whether campuses will reopen for the start of the next academic year, but universities minister, Michelle Donelan, said as long as the quality of teaching was up to standard, they should still charge full fees."We have already seen, over the last few months, courses being delivered online and virtually to an amazing degree of quality, and I know the efforts made across the sector to facilitate that," she said. "We dont believe students will be entitled to reimbursement if the quality is there."There would be a complaints process if students felt the quality of teaching was not adequate, she added, but "universities are still continuing with their overheads and their expenses during this time, and its no fault of their own".The news will add more stress to students moving from school to university this summer, who already face crucial end-of-year examinations being replaced by estimated marks calculated by their teachers, because of the school shutdown caused by the novel coronavirus.Universities are also concerned about the loss of income that will be caused by the expected reduction in overseas student numbers.According to figures published by the UK Council for International Student Affairs in December 2019, there were 458,490 non-UK students studying in the UK in 2017-18, with China supplying the biggest contingent, 106,530 students, and University College London having more than any other institution.The Institute for Fiscal Studies, or IFS, said while just one in five students at British universities was from overseas, their fees amount to nearly one-third of all tuition income, which could mean increased efforts to attract home-based students to make up numbers, leading to "a desperate s...

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  IOC plans to hold cancelled Tokyo session remotely

  AviewoftheInternationalOlympicCommitteeheadquartersinLausanne,Switzerland,October2,2019./VCG。TheInternationalOlympicCommitteerevealedonWednesdayplanstoholditsnextsessioninitiallyscheduledforTokyobeforetheopeningofthe2020GamesbyvideolinktobestreamedliveonJuly17.。AstatementfromtheIOC'sLausanneheadquar