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China news tagged with: tuition (13)

• China: Heavy Schooling Fees and Migrant Workers – Meng Zhang

  

  Global Voices kicked off a discussion on the school fees in China, and many bloggers are concerned on the topic. From Global Voices:
  
  

  “With the stepped-up developing of industrialization and urbanization in China, there’re more and more rural migrant workers in the cities. Consequently, the question that their children accept compulsory education comes out outstandingly. The report of the 17th CPC National Congress has clearly put forward that the equal rights to accept compulsory education of the migrant workers’ children should be guaranteed,” said Yuan Guiren, Chinese Vice Education Minister, at the CPC press conference last Saturday. Although Mr. Yuan has strongly emphasized the equal education rights for the migrant workers’ children, the tough reality which Netease blogger jzh8434 has depicted still makes some migrant parents worried if they can find an adequate school for their children next term. [Full Text]

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  • October 23, 2007 9:27 PM

• Should Students Decide Whether Their Classmates Are Poor? – Joel Martinsen

  

  From Danwei:

  Danwei posted a China Youth Daily’s report on “a new process instituted by the Ministry of Education to determine whether college students deserve financial aid.” The report says that the applicant’s classmates would vote on whether or not the applicant got aid:

  The rationale, as reported by CYD: In the past, investigating the economic circumstances of a student’s family relied predominantly on the student’s own personal narrative, or on documentation from the student’s local government. But in practice, some “impoverished students” did not actually live impoverished lives….[Full Text]

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  • July 5, 2007 5:26 AM

• Chinese Colleges Owed Millions of Yuan in Unpaid Loans – Xinhua

  

  From Xinhua:

  Many Chinese colleges and universities are owed millions of yuan because students are unable to, or choose not to, pay back tuition loans, the Ministry of Education said on Monday.

  “We have found that many universities and colleges have several million yuan of defaulted tuition fees, some have nearly a billion,” Cui Bangyan, a senior ministry official said at a press conference in Beijing….[Full Text]

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  • July 3, 2007 5:50 AM

• A College Student’s Expenditure Journal

  

  From Liuqiang.space.univs.cn, translated by CDT:

  Xie Xiaozhuan, from a farming family in Hunan, graduated from Suzhou University in 2004 and enrolled into a graduate program at People’s University in Beijing. He itemized his expenditure during his four-year college to give people an idea of how much a peasant family pay for a college student.

  The background of Xie’s family: The family of five is on the medium financial level in the village. The gross income of farming is 1200 Yuan ($150) per year. In order to support the family and two sons’ study, Xie’s father has gone to Guangdong to work for 20 years. The family is still living a hard life.

  The following is the list of Xie’s expenditure in four years in college.
  1. Tuition and Fees: 25,600 Yuan (including books)
  2. Meals: 10,960 Yuan (It is about 8 Yuan per day)
  3. Transportation: 2,190 Yuan (It includes train and bus fares)

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  • April 14, 2007 11:00 PM

• 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”

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  • March 14, 2007 7:37 PM

• China’s University Tuition 25 Times Higher Than in 1989 – Xinhua

  

  From Chinaview via Xinhua News Agency:

  Tuitions to China’s universities, which range from 5,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan (1,200 U.S. dollars) a year, are about 25 times higher than they were in 1989, according to the China Youth and Children Research Center (CYCRC).

  Annual incomes of urban residents have not nearly kept pace with tuition fees, rising only four times what they were at the end of the 1980’s. When increases in the cost of living are considered, the actual increase in urban incomes is only 2.3 times more than in 1989, according to the research center’s report released on Wednesday….[Full Text]
  

  (Cartoon: “Carrying child to school.” Chinese words on the cash read “High Tuition”)

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  • January 14, 2007 10:15 PM

• China to Waive School Fees for 150m Rural Children – Jonathan Watts

  

  From Guardian Unlimited:

  China will waive tuition fees for 150 million rural children next year in an attempt to close the education gulf that has opened up between rich and poor students since the start of the country’s market reforms.

  The 15bn yuan (¬£1bn) scheme was hailed by the state media as a major element in the government’s construction of a “new socialist countryside”, but it will have to be followed by more funds if China is to shed its reputation as one of the lowest education spenders in Asia.

  Under the plan, pupils will save ¬£9-12 per year, which is a significant sum of money for rural families living on an average annual income of ¬£195. “It may not be a big sum of money for an urban family, but it can be something important for a rural one, especially one in poverty-stricken areas,” Liu Shangxi, an official with the ministry of finance, was reported as saying in the state-run China Daily.[Full Text]

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  • December 13, 2006 10:54 AM

• In China, learning is a rising burden – David Lague

  

  From IHT:

  “It is natural that not everyone can afford excellent education resources,” a spokesman for the Education Ministry, Wang Xuming, was quoted as saying earlier this year in the official Beijing Review magazine.

  “A well-off man can go to a brand- name store to buy a 10,000 yuan suit while a poor person can buy a 100 yuan suit from a vendor,” he said.

  While higher income families can afford to enroll their children in top schools, even if it does entail some sacrifice, students from poorer families are forced to make do with vastly inferior schooling. [Full Text]

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  • August 27, 2006 7:41 AM

• Large amount of illegitimate educational fees found last year – Wang Li

  

  From Xinhua News Agency via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link):

  It is learned from a meeting in Guiyang on March 29 that more than 10,000 cases of illegitimate educational fees were found across the country last year, totaling about 2 billion renmimbi, or $250 million.

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  • March 30, 2006 5:50 PM

• “Tuition Killings”: the Complete Record – Han Xin

  

  The following was posted on Soho Xiaobao BBS (link) (translation by CDT):

  This is a collection of twenty independent reports of real cases [of suicide resulting from inability to pay school fees]. Every year, from July to September is “Tuition Killings” season. We use “file style” language in testifying about this season to curse the harsh demands of high-cost education, make a vehement call for a reduction in the cost of education, demand that the government increase investment in education, advocate quality educational reforms, enhance awareness of the educational aid system among the disenfranchised, keep corruption from infiltrating education, and stop the creeping spread of these educational tragedies. All of these demand immediate action.

  [Note: The rest of the document consists of summaries of reports from various media. Only three of the 20 are translated below, with links to the original Chinese reports. For the full collection, in Chinese, see the Soho Xiaobao BSS.]

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  • February 23, 2006 1:45 PM

• High school tuition in a poverty village is 95.5% of income – Tingyue Laoban

  

  The following was posted by Tingyue Laoban 1 (听月老班1) on a BBS hosted by Sina.com (translated by CDT). The original, including a scan of the school receipt, is here.

  High school tuition in a poverty village

  Qianshan village in Anhui province is one of the 2006 national poverty villages. But the tuition is astonishingly high in such a depressed place. The picture of a receipt I attached below is just part of it. I listed detailed items, from which you can clearly see that many items are legally prohibited by the national government (the list below is for one semester for a high school freshman):

  Items in the receipt (total amount: 1130 Yuan a semester):
  
  Tuition and fees: 700
  
  Lodging: 60
  
  Workbooks: 30
  
  Parents fee: 13
  
  Books and supplies: 327

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  • February 17, 2006 1:21 PM

• Going To University In China – ESWN

  

  From The EastSouthWestNorth blog:

  [translation] According to the China Youth Daily, the Jilin Provincial Government Reseach Center conducted a study of students at a senior secondary school in a rural county. 28.7% of the students said that they were afraid of attending university, because their family cannot afford the university fees.

  According to the study by the Jilin Provincial Government Research Center, in 2004, the average university tuition fee was 6,000 RMB, the average room chrage was 1,000 RMB and the average food expenses was 4,800 RMB. Combining the three items, university students need 11,800 RMB whereas the average net income for Jilin rural residents was 3,000.42 RMB. That is to say, each university student requires the net income of four rural peasants.

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  • August 24, 2005 7:40 AM

• Zi Feiyu: Are High Priced Elementary Schools Against the Mandatory Education Law?

  

  This article is from the Guangzhou Daily by Zi Feiyu. It has been translated by Joseph McMullin via the Press Interpreter:

  Since the beginning of May, wave after wave of parents have come to enroll their students in prominent private schools. At the same time, a national debate has been launched since a report in the Jiaodian Fangtan pointed out that certain schools requiring high tuitions are in violation of the Mandatory Education law. The debate concerning the legality of such schools has once again arisen in Guangzhou.

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  • May 19, 2005 8:50 AM

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