It has been a known issue for more than a decade: Chinese universities’ insurmountable debts. And as the topic managed to attract public attention again just recently, a closer look into the matter deemed appropriate. Departments of statistics, both federal and local, would not go so far as to hard-wire figures leaving it up to [...]
In preparation for a research report named “China Offshore Education report – 2010″ we are collecting motivations and experiences from both foreign universities and students participating in offshore education projects in China. We are also evaluating (and publicising here) motivations of Chinese universities for cooperating with their foreign counterparts, as gaps – if considerable – [...]
In an eye-opening article, book author and U.S. policy insider Catherin E. Dalpino reasons about China’s understanding and way of implementing democracy. Dalpino applies the term pop-up democracy used by U.S. policy makers to describe the myth of all repressive governments replacing their totalitarian by democratic structures. In her view, the pop-up democracy theory had [...]
In a recent article originally written for the US magazine Science, Premier Wen Jia Bao reasoned about an ambitious development plan praising innovation, science and technology as preconditions for further growth of China’s economy until 2020. As one of the implementing bodies, the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) followed suit with their education initiative which [...]
`Having just concluded their 2009 sessions, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) represent China’s most important series of meetings, discussions and decisions on the future direction of the country. These meetings are attended by top politicians, thought leaders and influencers, and are intended to canvass the views of a [...]
As we have covered previously, students in China experience significant study pressure. Gaining entry to a reputable senior high school is seen to pave a child’s path to a good university, itself critical to achieve or sustain the family’s societal and financial goals. This places significant pressure on children to excel in the country’s senior high school entrance examinations. With [...]
Municipal governments’ latest efforts to reduce the study pressure placed on the nation’s youngest students comes in the wake of a tragic suspected suicide of an 11-year old girl in Shanghai, who fell to her death from a school window on the first day of semester. Pressure within classrooms and at home are major psychological [...]
The Guardian recently reported on the potentially ‘cataclysmic’ effects of a drop in international student enrolments from China, in the event of a recessionary contagion spreading to the country. The report quotes London’s City University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Malcolm Gillies describing a receding Chinese economy as “more cataclysmic than anything else”, and urging caution in waters [...]
In a recent article, China View discussed how extreme study pressure is destroying creativity in China. Having graduated from a humble, middle-road high school in Chengdu, Mr. Zhu Shiqing, former Principal of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was bemused when local media made the assumption that someone of his calibre must have [...]
The team at China Education Blog wish you a happy Chinese new year! May this year of the Ox see you in good health, happiness and prosperity. As we have just launched this blog, we hope to keep you informed of the most important Chinese education sector movements over the coming year. And a big [...]
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