In 2009, University of California administrators told the San Diego campus to reduce its number of in-state freshmen by 500 to about 3,400 and fill the spots with out-of-state and international students, said Mae Brown, the school’s admissions director. California residents pay $13,234 in annual tuition while nonresidents pay $22,878.

As a result, almost 200 freshmen from China enrolled in 2011, up from 16 in 2009, a 12-fold increase. At the same time, the number of Asian-American Californians enrolled fell 29 percent to 1,230, from 1,723 in 2009. The 2009 figure is from the UC system’s office because San Diego didn’t have it available.

While the San Diego campus is accepting more Chinese students, the decline in Asian-American enrollment may be a result of the total drop in California resident admissions, and two years’ data doesn’t reflect a trend, said Christine Clark, a university spokeswoman.

“UC San Diego is committed to admitting and enrolling talented students from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds,” Clark said in an e-mailed statement.

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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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