Report: Thousands of Chinese students riot against college fees
From AP, via Canada East: Thousands of students rioted at a southern China college to protest fees and other campus issues, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Saturday. More than 4,000 students overturned...
View ArticleChinese university in golf drive – BBC
From BBC News: Golf lessons are going to be made compulsory for some students at one Chinese university, reports say. The president of Xiamen University in south-east China was quoted as saying it...
View ArticleFinancial crisis endangers indebted universities – Cai Yugao, Hai Mingwei and...
From Xinhua: Chinese universities boasting the largest number of students in the world are endangered by severe financial crisis, a result of the rapid enrollment expansion since 1999, warned deputies...
View ArticleJilin University is crying for help from whom? -Zhao Mu (赵牧)
Chinese blogger Zhao Mu published following commentary on his sohu blog. Translated by a Hong Kong based blogger and published on his Reading China blog: Jilin university is in financial crisis. It...
View ArticleChinese Universities Ranked Low in Research Competitiveness – Josie Liu
From China in Transition blog: Top Chinese universities did not make the first 100 on a list of research competitiveness of universities around the world. The highest ranked Chinese university on the...
View ArticleAnother Year, Another Wild Gaokao
Over 9 million Chinese high school students sat for Thursday’s National Higher Education Entrance Exam, or gaokao, where AFP’s Beh Lih Yi reports that intravenous drips, hormone injections,...
View ArticleGaokao Madness: Who Hasn’t F*cking Taken This Test?
SneezeBloid, the “tabloid” collection of Weibo posts and news headlines from SneezeNet, gathered stories of students and parents driven to madness by the gaokao, China’s university entrance...
View ArticleGaokao Essay Prompts Baffle Students
Some students taking this year’s college entrance exam, the gaokao, were perplexed by questions posed on the Chinese language section. These questions vary by province and generated widespread...
View ArticleChina’s Cram School From Hell
Foreign Policy reports on Maotanchang High School, a militant mountain retreat of a cram school in Anhui province that attracts thousands of gaokao prep students per session: Because Chinese parents...
View ArticleHRW: Allowing Blind Access to Gaokao a Breakthrough
After publishing a report looking at the many educational barriers facing people with disabilities in China last year, Human Rights Watch has praised the Ministry of Education’s recent decision to make...
View ArticleSupport for Blind University Aspirant Turns to Censure
The announcement that this year’s fiercely competitive gaokao university entrance exams would be made accessible to the blind was hailed as a breakthrough. But after performing poorly in the test...
View ArticleNo Room for ‘Western Values’ in University Education
Agence France-Presse reports that China’s Ministry of Education has unveiled new rules banning textbooks that promote western values: “Never let textbooks promoting western values appear in our...
View ArticleChina Turns to Online Courses for Soft Power
In an attempt to increase China’s soft power and boost its international image, the Chinese government has invested in a variety of schemes to promote Chinese culture abroad. One example is the...
View ArticleUCSD Stands By Dalai Lama Invite Despite Protest
On February 2, the University of California San Diego announced confirmation of their invited commencement speaker for 2017: Tenzin Gyatso, also known as the 14th Dalai Lama. From UCSD: Tenzin Gyatso,...
View ArticleForeign Universities Express Concern Over CCP Influence
The Netherlands’ Groningen University has canceled plans to set up a satellite campus in Yantai, Shandong after council members expressed academic freedom concerns over reports that the top campus...
View ArticleCCP Launches Patriotic Education for Intellectuals
The Chinese Communist Party has launched a new campaign aimed at “enhancing patriotism” among the country’s intellectuals. Academics are urged to toe the party line in the latest move to further...
View ArticleFree Speech Over HK Protests Stifled Abroad
At The Washington Post, A. Odysseus Patrick and Emanuel Stoakes look at how the evolving political crisis in Hong Kong has become a major flash point on university campuses in Australia and New...
View ArticleChina’s #MeToo Movement Sees Legal Victories
Despite resistance from authorities, China’s #MeToo movement is making progress with small but meaningful victories in court for individuals fighting sexual harassment and assault. The Guardian’s Lily...
View ArticleHungarian Protestors Oppose Flagship Belt and Road Project, a Fudan...
A 10,000 person protest in Budapest may have derailed a landmark Belt and Road Initiative project in the Hungarian capital: a satellite campus of China’s prestigious Fudan University. At Reuters, Anita...
View ArticlePolitics and Promotions Weigh On Chinese Academics
Life in Chinese academia is hard. Scholars are subject to twin pressures: politics and performance. Two recent cases—a professor’s lawsuit against Tsinghua University over wrongful dismissal connected...
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