"Kids' business school" opens for children of Chengdu's megarich
A controversial money-management training school for children of the wealthy has opened up in Chengdu. With course content on money management, the program is being dubbed by critics as...
View ArticleAre China's Colleges Too Easy?
China may have the lowest college dropout rate in the world. Some chalk this up to the success of China’s rigorous college entrance exam and family support systems. But others...China...
View ArticleAre China's Colleges Too Easy?
China may have the lowest college dropout rate in the world. Some chalk this up to the success of China’s rigorous college entrance exam and family support systems. But others...China...
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Chinese Baby Into a Foreign Citizen – Part Two
Here's part two in a guide that helpfully stacks up all of the various welfare benefits your Chinese baby stands to gain as a new member of another country....
View ArticleLooking For Freedom From The Chinese Education System
What are students doing getting out of class at 10:30 on a Sunday night? In Dali, like many small rural towns in China, there is a lot of pressure on...China Newschinese educationeducationgao kaohigh...
View ArticleStudent Given a Statue and Parade for Having Top Marks in the Gaokao
Be like Confucius and Laozi... by gettting your own bust put inside a school campus. That's what happened to a Hubei high school student who got top marks in the...Weird China...
View ArticleTeacher Hires Other Teachers to Teach for Him While Taking a Salary
An elementary school teacher that makes 3000 RMB a month uses 800 RMB to hire other teachers to substitute for him for a number of years. That's "years"; as even...China...
View ArticleHigh School Issues Mandatory See-Thru Gym Clothes, Principal Explains Is For...
Students are complaining the shoddy construction of their new gym clothes in which underwear is fully visible through the sheer fabric, but the principal of Zhengding No.1 high school is...China...
View ArticleChinese Hold Online Protest Against Child Predators, Say #GetARoomWithMe Instead
In response to cases of teachers or government officials molesting schoolchildren, Chinese citizens have waged a unique form of protest.China Newstea leaf nationeducationschool principalprotestviral...
View ArticleChinese Education Chiefs Ban Bras During Exams
Ahead of this week's "gaokao"– the intensely competitive Chinese equivalent to A-levels – schools in Jilin province have outlawed any metal object or item of clothing that sets off...China...
View ArticleShenzhen introduces teacher blacklist as cases of abuse continue to emerge
Education authorities in Shenzhen are planning to implement a blacklist system to prevent teachers guilty of immoral and unlawful behaviour from getting into the classroom. If a teacher is...
View ArticleFemale University Students Seek Online for 7 Day Boyfriends, Rejected
You can't even give it away, it seems. Two girls "too busy" for love now find themselves pining for a boyfriend at the end of classes. As with any...
View ArticleGuangzhou lessons to prevent sex attacks
Sexual assault prevention education is likely to become compulsory in schools in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in coming months. Students will be taught what legally constitutes sexual assault and...
View ArticleChinese students and families fight for the right to cheat their exams
Beijing: What should have been a hushed scene of 800 Chinese students sitting their university entrance exams erupted into siege warfare after invigilators tried to stop them cheating.China...
View ArticleWith scores finally announced, suicide follows college exams in China
Test scores for China’s high-stakes national college entrance exam, the gaokao, are now completely distributed. For one young girl from Sichuan province, several years’ worth of preparation ended in...
View ArticleStudying Chinese when your grades matter
Ideally, we would study Chinese just because we want to and in any manner we see fit, but this isn't how it works for most students. Instead, we need to...Learning...
View ArticleTeacher Loses Job for Withholding Diplomas Unless Kissed; Students Deny Any...
In the span of less than a day, a Sichuan high school teacher was suspended for extorting kisses from students when pictures were uploaded to the internet. However, the students...China...
View ArticleEarning beats learning in China Education
It’s sad that something so crucial to, who we are, as education has become so completely and utterly commodified. Education, once about expanding our knowledge, and giving the generation...
View ArticleFreak Out Over Chinese Teacher Who Drives to Work to a Rural School In a BMW
Teacher Zhang is your ordinary, hard-working teacher... except she isn't. Because she drives a BMW that the villagers of her school won't talk about. This provides an opportunity for Zhang to...
View ArticleChina Not Mad for Mandarin
With Mandarin ranking as the most important language for world business after English, stories of American parents enrolling their children in bilingual schools or even uprooting their families from...
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