China offers free higher education to poor students

[Tresbon]

China offers free higher education to poor students

China is set to provide free senior high school education to more poor students to further escalate school enrolments, the media reported on Tuesday.

Vice president of the National Institute of Education Sciences Zeng Tianshan pointed out that China's senior high school enrolment rate is still lower than that in developed countries, China.org reported.

"The expansion of senior high school enrolment will not only help enhance the quality of higher education but increase the average years of schooling. Now the average is just 10.1 years. The development of senior high education is of great importance to improving the quality of the population," Zeng said.

By 2020, China will provide free senior high education to all students in the country, with the gross enrolment rate expected to reach 90 percent.

China has adopted a double-track model for senior high education: the normal senior high education and a secondary vocational education.

Experts said enhancing the quality of senior high education in remote rural areas should be a top priority.

According to the communique of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee, China will gradually exempt tuition fees in secondary vocational schools and give priority funding to poor students.

The exemption of tuition fees will benefit nearly 20 million secondary vocational students, nearly half of the population receiving free senior high education.

China offers free higher education to poor students | Business Standard News

 

[Shotgunner51]

Excellent news! This will largely supplement the existing free 9-year education, by accurately targeting the families of lower income.

P.S.:

FYI, since the promulgation of the "Compulsory Education Law of the PRC" in 1986, the 9-year compulsory education has been implemented in China. ALL citizens must attend school for at least 9 years, funded by the government, it includes 6 years of primary education, starting at age 6~7, and 3 years of junior secondary education (middle school) for ages 12~15. Then students can choose to go on further studies in public education run by the Ministry of Education or private schools.

The number of college graduates in China nationwide in 2014 will was 7.27 million (compared with 16.87 million of new born in 2014, ratio~43%).

Education in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
9-year Compulsory Education
-- china.org.cn
College Graduates in China to Hit Record High in 2014​

 

[艹艹艹]

Xinjiang rolls out free high school education
Source:Xinhua Published: 2016/10/14 15:41:50


XinjiangUygur Autonomous Region is enforcing a regulation offering free high school education in four of its ethnic-minority dominated prefectures, warning against any interference with student's right to education.

"No body is allowed to coerce or deceive school-age students out of high school or interfere with their studies to encourage them to drop-out," according to the 32-article regulation endorsed by the regional legislature.

"Individuals or organizations that cause students to leave school early shall be held legally responsible," it added without elaboration.

The prefectures earmarked to exempt high school tuition fees are largely inhabited by the Uygur, Mongol, Kyrgyz, and Tajik ethnic minorities. School enrolment in Xinjiang is lower than the national average, said sources with the local government. Statistics show high school enrolment in the four prefectures was 23 percent in 2010, far below the national average of 80 percent.

Xinjiang's four prefectures are home to 90,000 school-age teenagers.

The regulation orders authorities to ensure the tuition-free policy is implemented. Local governments must include free high school education in their development plans and real estate developers have been urged to construct high schools near new residential communities, according to the regulation.

Overall, China has nine years of free compulsory education -- six years of primary school and three years of junior high school. Programs to extend free education beyond the nine years are being tested in phases.

 

[AndrewJin]

Overall, China has nine years of free compulsory education -- six years of primary school and three years of junior high school. Programs to extend free education beyond the nine years are being tested in phases.

It should be extended to 9 year plus 3 years in high school or 3 years in middle-level vocational school as soon as possible.

 

[艹艹艹]

It should be extended to 9 year plus 3 years in high school or 3 years in middle-level vocational school as soon as possible.

China is a big country with a large population!
We should gradually promote the implementation of

 

[AndrewJin]

China is a big country with a large population!
We should gradually promote the implementation of

Of what?

 

[艹艹艹]

Of what?

no what

 

[AndrewJin]

no what

Vocational trainings should be free, especially the middle-level which is equivalent to high school.

China pays tribute to craftsmen with bid to host WorldSkills Competition
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/10-10/229493.shtml

China's bid to host the 2021 WorldSkills Competition showcases the nation's respect for skilled workers and its emphasis on craftsmanship.

The city of Shanghai is in the running to host the 46th WorldSkills Competition in 2021, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said in a statement earlier this week.

China has a sound foundation for the bid given that the country organizes various vocational skill competitions every year and pays high attention to vocational training and the team building of skilled talent, the statement said.

China is among three contenders bidding for the right to hold the competition, along with Switzerland and South Africa.

The final decision will be voted on by WorldSkills International delegates in October 2017 at the General Assembly to be held in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Zhou Tianyong, professor at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China's bid to host the competition reflects the significance it places on skilled workers and the determination to train more people with diversified vocational skills.

Although China has the world's largest population, it has been confronting a shortage of workers with advanced vocational skills, structural issues and a glut of workers in fields that no longer dovetail with the country's economic development needs.

Data from the ministry showed a severe shortage of skilled workers in China, with a lack of over 4 million senior technicians in the manufacturing sector alone.

For the industrial sector, a normal personnel structure is one scientist, 10 engineers and 100 skilled workers, said Chen Yu, deputy head of the China Association for Employment Promotion. "Scientists and engineers can be introduced from other countries, but there has never been any example for introducing a massive number of skilled workers."

As a large manufacturing nation seeking to upgrade industrially, China needs hundreds of millions of workers with various vocational knowledge and skills, Chen said, citing examples such as Germany, Japan and the United States, which all boast large numbers of skilled workers.

Prejudice against vocational education exists around the world, said President of WorldSkills International Simon Bartley, adding that at least 90 percent of parents are against their children giving up an academic higher education to choose vocational schools.

This is also the case in China, but ideas are gradually changing.

Tang Weiqun, head of the Guangzhou Industry and Trade Technician College, has seen such changes first hand.

"Vocational colleges have become the choice of more and more students with excellent academic performance, rather than merely the last resort for junior high school graduates who failed to qualify for senior middle schools," Tang said. "Graduates from the college are now well received by the job market with relatively high salaries."

In a government work report unveiled in March 2016, China for the first time stressed a "spirit of craftsmanship striving for the best."

The country has also moved to promote vocational training and raise the welfare of skilled workers. For example, the government offered a cash bonus of 200,000 yuan (29,950 U.S. dollars) for each of its gold medalists at the 43th WorldSkills Competition held last year.

WorldSkills dates back to 1950 when it was first held in Madrid of Spain. The biennial event seeks to raise the awareness and prestige of vocational and blue-collar professions.




One vocational school in China's poorest province Guizhou

Guiyang Vocational and Technical College

 

[AndrewJin]

多发些新疆图片，免得外界还以为新疆活在水深火热中

Pls use English.
And photos are not related to this topic.

 

[Jason Zhao]

Pls use English.
And photos are not related to this topic.

hahahaha, I do not want to let other guys to understand it.

 

[beijingwalker]

China border town schools provide free education for students from Mongolia across the border

 

[beijingwalker]

Burmese children cross border daily to study in China, free tuition, food and other expenses

 

[war&peace]

Very nice...education is the best investment even if it is on your neighbours as they will get better understanding of Chinese culture, grow peaceful and more beneficial for both the nations..very mature and kind approach China

 

[TaiShang]

China has a very active good neighbor policy going all the way back to Chairman Mao time.

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A Review of China's Good Neighborhood Policy at the Beginning of the New Century
HUANG Ren-guo (Humanities and Society Department, Xiangtan Polytechnic University, Xiangtan 411201, China)

《Journal of Chenzhou Teachers College》 2002-06

Abstract

At the beginning of the new century, China's Good Neighborhood Policy was characterized by its intimate relationship among high-ranked officials, its active bi-lateral relationship and participating in and pushing the cooperation in security and economy areas in purpose of exploring the theory and practice of regional cooperation, and its calm policy for the political changes in the neighborhood for the purpose of keeping the peace and stability of the neighboring countries. The Good Neighborhood Policy contributes to the establishment of China's great-nation- virtues of peace and cooperation, to the improvement of the strategic security environment of our country, to the maintaining of the profits of our country and to the foundation of the theoretic and practical basis of China's growing up.

 

[beijingwalker]

Tibet offers 15 years of free education