Policy insider suggests abolishing high school entrance exams

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.
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Posted Under: Chinese Education Policy, Education System, High School
This post was written by Fransisca Zhang on February 17, 2009 Comments (1)

China seeks to lower pressure on young students, but will it work?

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 [...]

Posted Under: Chinese Education Policy, Chinese Students, Education System, Primary School
This post was written by Suren Gunatillake on February 12, 2009 Comments (3)

Do not get 100 percent!

In a recent article,

Posted Under: Chinese Education Policy, Chinese Students, Education System, High School, University
This post was written by Fransisca Zhang on February 2, 2009 Comments (0)