CSC Scholarship Extension

[Mactuary]

Hello fellow forumers,

Please send me the link to an existing thread, if it exists.

I am studying in HIT, Harbin Institute of Technology as a general scholar studying Mandarin. I've been granted one year of full scholarship due to expire in January 2013.

1. I wonder if it's possible to extend this CSC scholarship.

2. Would it be possible to move to another school in another city? (BLCU perhaps) If only to 扩大生活阅历.

I have not yet decided whether or not I want to spend another year in China. But my experience so far has been very good. Also I wonder what sort of level of Chinese I could attain after studying for one year. Would it be worth spending another year studying the language? Perhaps I would have enough skill to self study, listen/read to news/books in Chinese and talking to local Mandarin speakers.

At HIT the level is from A (most basic) to H (most advanced), I am at the C+ level, which I think is roughly equivalent to level 4 HSK, since many of my classmates are taking that level HSK test this Saturday.

I still have to go back to Sydney to finish my master's degree, but at my uni it is possible to take a leave of absence for two years, so it's not a big deal.

Thanks for your help.

[roddy]

Folks, I've split topics on HIT off to here as there was good info I wanted to make easier to find, and the more general discussion of Harbin stuff to here. Apologies for the cheese-moving, but it was getting pretty distant from CSC scholarship extensions (which might be best asked in one of the existing CSC topics).