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 [...]
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 [...]
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