The Education of China

1. EDUCATION OF
CHINA
Discussant
Ms. Sheila J. Echaluce

2. OBJECTIVES
• To be able to know the education
system of China and it’s country
• To familiarize the Education system
of China

3. NATIONAL PROFILE
• Country Name: People's Republic of
China
• Region: East Asia
• Fact: It is the world's most populous country.
• Population: 1.37 billion
• Capital City: Beijing
• Area: 9,600,000 sq km.
• Largest City: Shanghai
• Language: Chinese

4. NATIONAL PROFILE
• Main religion and beliefs: Include
Atheist, Confucianism, Buddhism,
Islam(over 22 million)
• Currency: is known as Yuan.
• Consisted: 23 provinces, 5 autonomous
regions, 4 municipalities and 2 special
administrative regions.
• Peoples Republic of China Proclaimed:
October 1, 1949.

5. FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTRY
• Yuan Guiren – Minister of Education
• Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of
China is the agency of the State Counci of the People's
Republic of China that regulates all aspects of the
educational system in mainland China, including
compulsory basic education, vocational education, and
tertiary education.
• There were over 103 million students enrolled in primary
schools in 2008.
• While the total enrollment for students in junior secondary
schools (including vocational schools) totaled over 55
million.
• The number of students enrolled in general academic senior
secondary schools were 16 million in 2002, and by 2008,
that total increased to just over 24 million.

6. FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTRY
• Ministry of Education (MOE) of
the People's Republic of China is the agency
of the State Counci of the People's Republic
of China that regulates all aspects of the
educational system in mainland China,
including compulsory basic education,
vocational education, and tertiary
education.

7. FACTS ABOUT THE
COUNTRY (LITERACY RATE)
• China’s literacy rate is 95.1%.
• Male literacy rate is 97.5%
• Female literacy rate is 92.7%.
• Criteria is that individual of age 15 can
read and write.
• Youth literacy rate is the percentage of
people ages 15-24 that can read, write
and understand a simple statement on
their everyday life.

8. CHINA’S EDUCATIONAL
POLICIES
• Nine-Year Compulsory Education

9. Nine-Year Compulsory Education
• The Law on Nine-Year Compulsory
Education - took effect on July 1,
1986, established requirements and
deadlines for attaining universal
education tailored to local conditions
and guaranteed school-age children
the right to receive at least nine
years of education (six-year primary
education and three years secondary
education).

10. Nine-Year Compulsory Education
• Education is free and compulsory for 9
years in China, split between Primary and
Junior middle school at the age of 6-15.
many children start their schooling at a
nursery school (called Kindergarten in
China) as early as 2 years old.
• 2-6: Kindergarten
• 6-12: Primary school (compulsory)
• 12-15: Junior middle school (compulsory)
15-18: Senior high school
• (middle school) or Vocational school
• 18-22: University or college

11. AGE DISTRIBUTION
• Age 3-5 Pre-school or play group,
kindergarten etc
• 6-10 Primary education till 1 grade to five
• 11-14 Elementary education till 6 grade to
8th grade
• 15-16 Secondary education grade 9th &
10th
• 17-18 Higher secondary or intermediate
grade 11th & 12
• 8-22 Higher education

12. EDUCATIONAL LADDER OF
CHINA
Age 3-5 Pre-school or play
group, kindergarten etc
6-10 Primary education
till 1 grade to five
11-14 Elementary
education till 6 grade to
8th grade
15-16 Secondary
education grade 9th &
10th
17-18 Higher secondary or
intermediate grade 11th &
12
8-22 Higher education

13. CURRICULUM

14. EDUCATIONAL
STRUCTURES
• Basic Education
• Occupational / polytechnic education
• Common higher education
• Adult education

15. Basic Education
• Pre-school Education and
• Primary (6 years)
• Senior (3 years)
• Middle Schooling Junior (3 years)

16. Medium-level Occupational and
Polytechnic Education
• Composed of medium-level professional
schools
• Polytechnic schools
• Occupational middle schools as well as short-
term occupational and technical training
programs of various forms.

17. Common Higher Education
• Junior College – usually last 2-3
years
• Bachelor – this program last 4 years
(medical and some engineering and
technical programs 5 years)
• Master - 2~3 years
• Doctoral Degree Programs - doctoral
program 3 years.

18. Adult Education
• Schooling Education
• Anti-illiteracy education
• Other programs oriented to adult groups

19. Pre-School Education
• Age 3-5 Pre-school or play group,
kindergarten etc.
• This was another target of education
reform in 1985

20. Primary Education
• Under the Law on Nine-Year Compulsory Education,
primary schools were to be tuition-free and reasonably
located for the convenience of children attending them
• Students would attend primary schools in their
neighborhoods or villages. Parents paid a small fee per
term for books and other expenses such as
transportation, food, and heating. Previously, fees were
not considered a deterrent to attendance. Under the
education reform, students from poor families received
stipends, and state enterprises, institutions, and other
sectors of society were encouraged to establish their
own schools.

21. Primary Education
• Children usually entered primary school at seven
years of age for six days a week, which after
regulatory changes in 1995 and 1997 were
changed to five and a half and five days,
respectively.
• The primary-school curriculum consisted
of Chinese, mathematics, physical
education, music, drawing, and elementary
instruction in nature, history, and geography,
combined with practical work experiences around
the school compound.

22. Secondary Education
• Junior secondary - known as (junior) middle
school education, it consists the last three
years of nine years compulsory education.
• Senior secondary - refers to three years high
school (or called senior middle school)
education, as from grade 10 to grade 12.

23. Secondary Education

24. Common Higher Education
• By the end of 2004, China had 2,236 schools of Higher Learning, with over
20 million students; the gross rate of enrollment in schools of higher
learning reached 19 percent. Postgraduate education is the fastest
growing sector, with 24.1 percent more students recruited and 25.9
percent more researchers than the year before. This enrollment growth
indicates that China has entered the stage of popular education.
The UNESCO world higher education report of June 2003 pointed out that
the student population of China's schools of higher learning had doubled
in a very short period of time, and was the world's largest.
• Particular attention has been paid to improving systems in recent reforms.
Many industrial multiversities and specialist colleges have been
established, strengthening some incomplete subjects and establishing new
specialties, e.g., automation, nuclear power, energy
resources,oceanography, nuclear physics, computer science, polymer
chemistry, polymer physics, radiochemistry, physical
chemistry and biophysics.

25. Adult Education Education

26. BENEFITS IT OFFERS PHILIPPINE
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

27. INNOVATION IN
CHINESE
EDUCATION

28. Education for migrant children
• Following the large-scale movement of Chinese rural
population to the cities the children of these migrant
workers either stay as left-behind children in the
villages or they migrate with their parents to the cities.
• Although regulations by the central government
stipulate that all migrant children have the right to
attend a public school in the cities[28] public schools
nevertheless effectively reject these children by setting
high thresholds such as school fees and exams or by
requesting an urban registration (Hukou).

29. Education for migrant children
• Following the large-scale movement of Chinese rural
population to the cities the children of these migrant
workers either stay as left-behind children in the
villages or they migrate with their parents to the cities.
• Although regulations by the central government
stipulate that all migrant children have the right to
attend a public school in the cities[28] public schools
nevertheless effectively reject these children by setting
high thresholds such as school fees and exams or by
requesting an urban registration (Hukou).

30. Teachers
• In 1985, the government designated September 10 as Teachers'
Day, the first festival day for any profession and indicative of
government efforts to raise the social status and living standards of
teachers.
• The government has started the Nationwide Program of Network
for Education of Teachers to improve the quality of teaching. It aims
to modernize teachers' education through educational information,
providing support and services for lifelong learning through the
teachers' education network, TV satellite network, and the Internet
and to greatly improve the teaching quality of elementary and high
school faculty through large-scale, high-quality and high-efficiency
training and continuous education.
• As required by state law, local governments are implementing
teacher qualification systems and promoting in-service training for
large numbers of school principals, so as to further improve school
management standards

31. Rural education
• Reflecting the fact that most of China's population live in
the countryside, 95.2 percent of all elementary schools,
87.6 percent of junior high schools and 71.5 percent of
senior high schools are in rural areas, with 160 million
students at the compulsory education stage. The 1995-
2000 "National Project of Compulsory Education in
Impoverished Areas" involved the allocation of 3.9 billion
special funds from the central finance and 10 billion yuan
raised by local governments to improve schooling
conditions in impoverished areas. In 2004, various special
funds allocated by the central finance for compulsory
education in rural areas reached 10 billion yuan, a 72.4
percent increase on the 2003 figure of 5.8 billion.

32. Adult and online education
• The participation of big investors in online education has
made it a new hotspot for investment in the education
industry. Students of remote and under-developed areas
are the biggest beneficiaries of online education, but online
universities offer students who failed university entrance
examinations and working people the chance of lifelong
education and learning.
• The Ministry of Education has approved 68 ordinary schools
of higher learning and the Central Radio and TV University
to pilot modern distance education. By the end of 2003,
these schools had established 2,027 off-campus learning
centers around China, offering 140 majors in ten disciplines,
and had a total enrollment of 1.373 million.

33. Education for migrant children
• Following the large-scale movement of Chinese rural
population to the cities the children of these migrant
workers either stay as left-behind children in the
villages or they migrate with their parents to the cities.
• Although regulations by the central government
stipulate that all migrant children have the right to
attend a public school in the cities[28] public schools
nevertheless effectively reject these children by setting
high thresholds such as school fees and exams or by
requesting an urban registration (Hukou).

34. Private education
• The government supports private
educational organizations, as well as private for-profit
educational providers.[33] The first "Law on Promotion
of Private Education" came into effect on September 1,
2003.
• Development of private schools means an increase in
overall education supply and a change in the traditional
pattern of public-only schools, so as to meet
educational needs. At the end of 2004, there were
more than 70,000 private schools of all types and level,
with a total enrollment of 14.16 million, including
1,279 private institutes of higher learning, with a total
enrollment of 1.81 million.

35. Gender equality
• A 2010 statement by UNESCO stated that in
China it is "necessary to articulate a strategy
to improve girls' and women's participation,
retention and achievement in education at all
levels," and that education should be "seen as
an instrument for the empowerment of
women

36. Overseas students
• The number of foreigners wanting to study in
China has been rising by approximately 20%
annually since the reform and opening period
began.[35] According to official government
figures 195,503 overseas students from 188
countries and regions came to study on the
mainland in 2007 although the number is
believed to be somewhere around the 300,000
region, because the government’s figures do not
include students studying at private language
schools. This makes China the world’s sixth-
largest study abroad destination.

37. REFERENCE
• http://www.slideshare.net/diahaider1/new-
china?related=1