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 [...]

Database of social entrepreneurs impacting China’s education sector

The National Outline for Education Reform stipulates an increase of the federal education budget to 4% of China’s GDP by 2012. Vice Minister of Finance Ding Xuedong calls this “challenging because other sectors such as agriculture, science and technology, health care and social security need investment, too”. China’s education expenditure – central and local governments [...]