Yang Dongping, president of the Education Institute of Beijing Institute of the Technology, claims the large scale removal of countryside schools led to the gradual decline of rural education and excessive merging of schools, leading to long travel and high tuition fees.
The dropout rate of primary schools is back to ten years ago and lower grade students are the main group who leave their studies, according to Han Qinglin, the inspector of Hebei Education Department and the director-general of the rural education branch of the Chinese Education Society.
"The large continuous merging of schools has resulted in not only the dropout of lower grade students, but even worse, a great deal of students cannot enter school which means it is possible more than a million illiterate people will appear every year," said Han.
The general office of the State Council unveiled 'The Opinion of Managing Rural Education Compulsory Schools Layout Adjustment' in September which called for the policy of merging schools, implemented for over ten years, to be halted.
"Urbanization of countryside education or achieving the goal that children can enter a school nearby are two opinions, the former requests for merging schools to let all countryside students receive urbanized education while the latter advocates remaining and constructing village schools as well as developing county boarding schools," said Wu Zhihui, the president of the Countryside Education Research Institute of the Northeast Normal University.
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