Xinjiang Teachers to Take Part in Anti-separatism Program
Global Times reports that 2,939 Uyghur-speaking teachers from Xinjiang will be sent to schools...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 17, 2016
Global Times reports that 2,939 Uyghur-speaking teachers from Xinjiang will be sent to schools...
by Cindy | May 6, 2016
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports that authorities in Hunan have summoned riot police...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 17, 2015
According to a report by Yang Fan for RFA, a teacher in Hubei was dismissed after reposting an...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 2, 2014
After thousands of teachers from Zhaodong, Heilongjiang Province went on strike last month to...
by Cindy | Nov 21, 2014
Despite a lack of organized unions in China, 8,000 teachers in Zhaodong, Heilongjiang organized a...
by Melissa M. Chan | Nov 29, 2011
Anti-discrimination laws in China state that people who have HIV or AIDS are entitled to equal employment and medical treatment, but three men from three different provinces claimed that they were denied government teaching jobs...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 11, 2010
The planned dismissal of 448,000 substitute teachers throughout China has generated angry comments from netizens. A few days ago, ChinaHush translated news reports about the lay-offs and posted photos illustrating the difficult...
by dwang | Apr 3, 2009
China has jailed eight parents and teachers after uncovering elaborate schemes to help students pass the college entrance exams, tests which often determine the socioeconomic fate of young people and their future dependents in...
by Liu Yong | Feb 6, 2009
From Reuters: They are old, angry and have mobile phones, and they worry China’s protest-wary leaders. Teachers across rural China, many long retired or forced from classrooms, have joined a recent surge of protests, with...
by Jenny Leung | Dec 1, 2008
As reported in a previous post on CDT, two female students accused their political science professor, Yang Shiqun, of being “counterrevolutionary.” This is in line with a growing trend of bloggers and journalists...
by Jenny Leung | Nov 16, 2008
There is a new phrase circulating in China’s internet taken from China’s past to describe the repression of freedom of speech. China Media Project’s Emma Lupano reports: As the internet has grown rapidly in...
by Liu Yong | Jun 27, 2008
From AP: China is requiring more ethical responsibility from teachers following the highly publicized case of a high school teacher who fled his classroom during last month’s earthquake without making sure his students...
by Liu Yong | Jun 16, 2008
From Reuters: A Chinese high school teacher has been sacked and denounced by local media and Internet users for fleeing a classroom before his students during last month’s devastating earthquake. Fan Meizhong, a...
by Linjun Fan | Mar 8, 2008
Seven hundred teachers in Yunfu City of Guangdong province went to demonstrate on the street on March 4 to protest their low salaries, according to reports on several Chinese Internet forums. Various reports say the teachers...
by Sophia Cao | Sep 12, 2007
From Xinhua: China’s Compulsory Education Law which took effect last September stipulates that the local average wage for teachers should not be lower than that of civil servant. Teachers’ wages generally comprise two parts: “basic income” and “structural income” which varies according to rank, school and region….[Full Text] See also “A Generation of Rural Teachers […]
by Mo Ming | Jan 2, 2007
From Global Voices Online: Teachers in Huadu, an outlying suburb of Southern China metropolis Guangzhou went on strike yesterday in front of the local district government building yesterday, calling for higher wages. A thorough look through Google search results for “Huadu” “teacher” and “protest” suggests a media blackout, which the teachers seem to have expected, […]
by Sophia Cao | Sep 23, 2006
From China Daily: People may think that professors, especially those at famous universities, are wealthy, but they say they are rather poor. Assistant professor at prestigious Peking University A Yi made it clear his monthly salary of 4,768 yuan (US$601) was not enough on his online web log and claimed there would be no way […]