Tag Archives: education

There’s money in education

Foreign unis in China; gas prices may rise; stocks fall; Yao Ming and the ref scandal; China vs. Qatar; ethics of online manhunts; exploding toilets.

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Top secret exams

Beijing Evening News (北京晚报) reports that college entrance exams are now Top Secret.

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Learn English by phone

China Newsweek (中国新闻周刊) has a short essay on English learning techniques.

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Sustainable sexual development

David Drakeford sent Danwei a link to a story on Sina.com (in Chinese) about experimental sex education classes in Guangzhou. Guangzhou’s city government plans to allow more interactive elements, such as situational plays and talk shows, in high school sex … Continue reading

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Kids’ questions about the paranormal

Han Song (韩松) relates 36 questions from Chinese middle-school students concerning parallel universes (重叠空间), ghosts, and the Bermuda Triangle (百慕大三角).

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When is something newsworthy?

Wu Fei (吴非) writes about what is and isn’t newsworthy in China.

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Educational gravediggers

A teacher gets fired for defending students who complained about having to sit for hours in the hot sun waiting for a ceremony to start, while the leadership sat in air-conditioned cars.

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New Weekly: Do Chinese kids know anything about traditonal Chinese culture?

Q: Do you know what China’s four great inventions are? Paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder 49.3% know all four, 37.3% get one or more wrong, 13.3% don’t know at all (2004.06.12)

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