Bill Costello visits the Beijing Yuanlong Silk Corporation factory.
» 2009 » NovemberBill Costello visits the Beijing Yuanlong Silk Corporation factory. Bill Costello visits the Forbidden City in Beijing. Bill Costello visits Tiananmen Square in Beijing. China’s recent formation of C9, an alliance of nine prestigious universities hailed as China’s Ivy League, differs from the U.S.’s Ivy League in several ways: 1) C9 universities are public; the Ivy League universities are private. 2) C9 universities answer to the Ministry of Education; the Ivy League universities answer to their own board. 3) C9 formed around [...] A new study published in the British Medical Journal finds that China had 32 million more males than females under the age of 20 in 2005. Industrialized countries typically had 107 male births for every 100 girls in 2005; however, it was 119 to 100 in China. There were 1.1 million excess births of boys. China’s gender [...] Education is becoming increasingly important in China as closing factories leave tens of thousands of workers unemployed. In Guangdong, a province in South China that produces one third of China’s exports, thousands of factories are closing because of new laws, rising costs, a climbing yuan, and increased competition from India and Vietnam. While Guangdong is being especially hard [...] According to the Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education, China sent 21 percent more students to U.S. colleges and universities last year than during the previous year. While China sent 98,510 students, India sent 103,260—making it the leading country of origin for international students. However, China is rapidly catching up. China’s one-child policy, which limits couples to having just one child, was established in 1979. Since then, many Chinese couples have practiced abortion to avoid giving birth to a girl. As a result, China has the world’s largest ratio of boys to girls. This gender imbalance is now evident in schools around the country. After a decade-long effort to build a world-class university system, China has established a group of Ivy League universities. The nine-university alliance, dubbed C9, includes: Fudan University (Shanghai), the Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin), Nanjing University (Nanjing), Peking University (Beijing), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai), Tsinghua University (Beijing), University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei), Xi’an [...] While doing research for my upcoming trip to China, I found five interesting facts about higher education in China: 1) China has the largest higher education system in the world. 2) China has five universities in the top 100. 3) University enrollment in China has more than tripled since 2000. 4) More university degrees are awarded in China than [...] This is the tenth part in a series I’ve been writing over the past two weeks about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that [...] This is the ninth part in a series I’ve been writing over the past two weeks about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that [...] This is the eighth part in a series I’ve been writing over the past two weeks about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that [...] This is the seventh part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that mentions the [...] This is the sixth part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that examines teacher [...] This is the fifth part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that explains the [...] This is the fourth part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that explains how [...] This is the third part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that analyzes the widely [...] This is the second part in a series I’ve been writing this week about the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top, which is an analysis of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Today, my focus is on the section of the report that analyzes education spending. [...] McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, released the report, How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top over two years ago, however, it’s just a relevant now as it was back then. McKinsey studied 25 of the world’s school systems to find out why some schools succeed and others do not. Among [...] |
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