Tag Archives: Middle School

No ‘puppy love’ allowed for outstanding students at Chongqing school

Posted on 2012-09-04 by Barry van Wyk

Chinese schools opened again yesterday after the summer holiday, yet as the front page of the Chongqing Shangbao (重庆商报) reports today, when high school students at the Bashu (巴蜀) Middle School in Chongqing arrived for class yesterday, they were confronted with an unexpected … Continue reading →

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Opening the door to American universities with lies

Posted on 2011-09-07 by Tim Hathaway

There’s a growing perception that American universities are admitting Chinese students based on fraudulent applications. How big is this problem, and who is responsible for it? Tim Hathaway investigated the problem for the Southern Weekly, and this is what he found: … Continue reading →

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Chinese students and a foreign agony uncle

Posted on 2011-09-02 by Ralph Jennings

Ralph Jennings is a journalist who has contributed advice columns to the Beijing-based 21st Centurynewspaper since 2000. I was working at the China Daily eleven years ago. One day, during an editing shift,  a colleague suddenly popped up beside my desk and said the … Continue reading →

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