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04-07-2017, 01:55 PM
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Chinese varsity ?campus? near Oxford
LONDON: China’s Peking University is buying a 19th-century ma**r house near Oxford in southeast England to use as a campus in a multi-million dollar deal, the estate agent handling the deal told AFP on Thursday.
Foxcombe Hall, which has a vaulted banqueting hall, Italian style gardens and a lake, is to become a branch of Peking University’s HSBC Business School. "I can confirm we’ve exchanged contracts with completion due next month," said Jon Silversides, partner at estate agency Carter Jonas. The price of the transaction has **t been released but the estate was reportedly originally listed for £7 million. "I can confirm that we’re regarding around that figure," Silversides said, adding: "Their proposal, I believe, which has also been in the press, is for a business school". The campus located just outside Oxford, a hub of British academic excellence, will **t be part of the world-famous University of Oxford. Spread over 6.17 hectares, the campus centre piece is the original house, built in the 1890s, which also includes a tower and an original carriage drive. Other buildings were then subsequently added and the complex had been used by the Open University -- one of the UK’s biggest universities -- since 1976. أكثر... 
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