2002 Blueprint for Educational Reform and Development Drawn

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, December 28, 2001

2002 Blueprint for Educational Reform and Development Drawn

Ministry of Education had completed the blueprint for educational reform and development in 2002 right before the advent of New Year's Day.

The Ministry pointed out that basic educational work in the New Year would focus on three key links, i.e., moral education, updating of teaching materials and reform of the examination assessment system.

It is learnt from the Annual Working Meeting of the Ministry of Education concluded Wednesday that the said Ministry had completed the blueprint for educational reform and development in 2002 right before the advent of New Year's Day.

Focus of Educational Work in 2002

The Ministry pointed out that basic educational work in the New Year would focus on three key links, i.e., moral education, updating of teaching materials and reform of the examination assessment system.

To deal with the growing number of junior high school graduates in the next several years, the ministry will leave no stone unturned to increase input in senior high schools, expand existing teaching resources for senior high schools, encourage the development of civilian-run senior high schools, and promote the coordinated development of vocational high schools and regular high schools.

Work of higher education in 2002 will focus on further strengthening of the construction of high-level universities and key disciplines.

Stable Transition to Be Guaranteed

Efforts are required to guarantee a stable transition in the peak period of school-age people to study in junior high schools, and control the rate of discontinued schooling in junior high schools in rural areas.

China plans to enroll 4.65 million students in regular universities and adult higher education for training undergraduates and junior college graduates next year. Continued efforts will be made to promote the substantial merger of amalgamated universities, boost the reform of logistics socialization in colleges and universities, and spur the reform of contents and methods of university (or college) entrance examination.

New Measures to Tackle Challenges by WTO Accession

In the spirit of "emancipating the mind and marching with time", the Ministry of Education will take new measures to tackle the challenges posed by WTO accession: vigorously introduce quality foreign teaching resources mainly for higher education and vocational education, regulate actions in Sino-foreign cooperative running of schools according to law, further expand the opening of education to the outside and promote international educational exchanges and cooperation.

President Jiang on Educational, Health Care Reforms

At a group discussion of the ongoing Fourth Session of the CPPCC National Committee, Chinese president Jiang Zemin called for accelerated reform and development of the educational, medical and health care sectors to serve the cause of socialistic modernization.

The president stressed that China must carry on educational reform and innovation, increase spending on and accelerate the development of education, which he says is critical to the nation's economic and social development.

Over 10m Teachers Help Flourish China's Education

According to the statistics, there are 221 teacher-training colleges with 1,099,700 students on campus and 683 teacher-training schools with in-study students reaching 769,800 in China.

In the "Ninth Five-year Plan" period, some one million and some 1.4 million students have graduated from teacher-training colleges and schools respectively, and some 280,000 middle-school teachers and 780,000 primary school teachers have received qualification training respectively.

By PD Online staff member Du Minghua

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