Category Archives: School and Education

Taking the train to the gaokao

Posted on 2012-06-07 by Allison Carol Goldman

The China Youth Daily is a commercial daily run by the Communist Youth League. Today’s cover story: “Taking the train to the gaokao.” The gaokao is China’s university entrance exam. It is offered once a year, on a single day, to students across the country, … Continue reading →

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University diploma scandal in Jinan

Posted on 2012-06-04 by Allison Carol Goldman

The Jinan Times is a daily newspaper based in Shandong province. Today’s front page features a picture of a distressed student along with a phony university admissions letter. The headline reads: “68 ‘university students’ realize on the eve of their graduation that … Continue reading →

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73,400 students register for the gaokao; 650,000 sweep tombs

Posted on 2012-04-09 by Allison Carol Goldman

The front page top headline of the Beijing Morning Post, April 3: “In Beijing, 73,400 people registered for the gaokao (the national college entrance exam).” This represents a decline in registrants, down from 76,000 last year. The article predicted, however, that university admissions … 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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Kuang Kuang and the 38th Parallel

Posted on 2011-09-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Here is another episode of Kuang Kuang’s Diary, featuring Kuang Kuang, the primary school boy with a permanent bloody nose, and his girlfriend Xiao Hong. This episode is called The 38th Parallel, a reference to the border between North and South … 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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Confessions of a Chinese graduate

Posted on 2011-09-02 by Eric Mu

An essay by Danwei staff writer Eric Mu.  When I was a kid, university graduates were as rare as unicorns, now they are more like popcorn: cheap and plentiful. No big surprise, considering there are millions of fresh ones every … Continue reading →

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Blowing up the school

Posted on 2011-08-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Early this year, an animation showing a group of bunnies oppressed by tigers and then rising up in rebellion became an overnight hit in China, soon making it to international TV news, including Australia’s ABC. The video was part of an … Continue reading →

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