Free Teacher Education Stirs Hot Discussions – Coldness Kwan

From China Daily:

Free teacher education in the six normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) from this school year pledged by Premier Wen Jiabao‘s in his government work report at the current National People’s Congress (NPC) session has drawn wide public concern.

…Some experts worried that the provincial-level teacher majors may be embarrassed by enrollment drought as they gave no sign to free of charge following the government work report. Sichuan and Yunan Normal Universities both denied near free charge plan….[Full Text]

-Photo reads “free bus to university”