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China changed a lot in the last few decades. The enrollment of college students is increased to 25 million, five times more than a decade ago. Then they visit Nanjing University, the president of the University show them around. Then they interview college students in a café in Beijing. Students said people would like to go to prestigious universities even though they may not be able to choose their major. The increasing college students present a lot of pressure on the universities. Whether they can accept so many students and provide high quality education is critical. Then they talk about private universities, such as Xi’an international school. Private schools are impressive with high technology and new buildings. They have more money since the tuition fee is higher than public school. But the authority hoped they will also put more effort on teaching quality. Then they talk about some foreign universities in China, the tuition fee is 9000 dollars and students will receive the degree from the foreign universities.
Speed
1. 1:34.58
Wealthy people in China would like to own some property. At the meantime, they are willing to provide their children education in US or Europe to get better education. What about children in rural areas? The best way is to improve the whole education in China for all kids. Then the author stated the situation of America when it was advocating “American Dream”. China is now advocating “Chinese Dream”. People can earn their future based on how much effort they put in rather than people’s background. Therefore, the government should support more private schools in China.
2. 3:27.13
Competition is fierce between public schools in cities. Therefore, those public schools spend a lot of effort to improve their teaching quality. However, in rural area, public schools have no incentive and motivation to improve, because they will still exist since the students and parents have no other choice. A corporation opened a primary and middle school in rural area in Shanxi. Besides teaching knowledge, the school emphasized students’ honesty, and integrity. Their enrollment increased a lot and they provide scholarship to poor students if students perform well in class. Recently, the school received a 1 million RMB donation.
3. 2:34.48
In Shanghai, a new type of private school whose target is children of oversee returned Chinese is opening. The school has a primary and junior middle school and they are planning to enroll 50 to 100 students. The school will focus on Chinese culture as well as global scope, which is kind of between pure international schools and traditional public schools. However, some people said they prefer their children to enroll in traditional public school, because the traditional Chinese culture provided there is different from those in other types of schools.
4. 2:40.41
A professor in Shanghai International Studies University said she would let her daughter to make her own decision. However, when considering the high tuition fee, she would prefer to send her daughter to western countries directly. Then the author provides examples in Beijing. Some of these schools perform well and have high quality of education while other does not. The authority of this special type of school said they provide parents another option when choosing their kids’ education.
5. 4:27.12
The author presents an example of a school Mumbai to explain that private school provides hope for those who would not attend to school otherwise. A quarter to a third of Indian students is studying in private schools. Later, the government made the private school free to primary school students. Same situation showed in China, private schools with lower tuition fees emerges because of migration.
Obstacle
9:05.19
The author investigated why parents would like to send children to private schools. Most parents said private schools have higher quality, which means that private schools are superior in academic structure, goal-oriented, student-teacher ratio, and comfortable environment. However, the author believed that it all depends on students themselves.
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