China defines road map for becoming a learning society by 2020

In 1993, China’s Ministry of Education (MoE) published the “Outline for Education Reform and Development“  in which it announced to increase its annual budget to 4% of GDP by 2000. A glance at The National Bureau of Statistics‘ yearbook of 2001 reveals that China missed this ambitious target by about 30%. Evidently not satisfied with [...]

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This post was written by Frank Quosdorf on June 14, 2010 Comments (0)

Largest-Ever School Merger Lifts 400,000 Migrant Children out of Poor Education

China’s enormous economic output can be attributed – to a notable degree – to an army of about 300 million migrant workers. It is therefore hard to believe that Chinese leaders forgot to build migrant children’s entitlement to compulsory education into their policies. In the 1990s, this policy hole led to a patchwork of privately [...]