Awards for Young Teachers in Higher Education Announced

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Awards for Young Teachers in Higher Education Announced

Young teachers from western Chinawere given special attention in this year's Awards for Young Teachers in Higher Education, announced here Thursday morning by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE).

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Young teachers from western Chinawere given special attention in this year's Awards for Young Teachers in Higher Education, announced here Thursday morning by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE).

The prizes for respectable achievements and contributions in teaching and research have gone to 115 young teachers, said Yao Faming, director of Human Resource Development Office under the MOE,

According to Yao, the Chinese government allocates 50 million yuan specifically for the awards each year and the winners will beawarded finance support for five successive years.

One feature of the awards for this year is that universities and colleges in western China were given more attention, said Yao.

Besides the 100 regular award winners, the MOE selected 15 moreyoung professionals from higher education in western China, aimingto push forward the growth and development of education in westernregions.

According to Yao, 21,700 professors in China were above the ageof 55 at the end of last year, accounting for 42.8 percent of the total, while the figure of professors younger than 40 was only 7,000, making up 13.7 percent. Therefore, training young and middle-aged experts had become a strategic task for the overall development of China's higher education.

The program in question is only one among a series of projects carried out by the MOE to "attract, maintain and train young experts who are willing to dedicate themselves to the cause of higher education in China", said Yao, and the amount of prize money awarded to young teachers in various programs has accumulated to 100 million yuan.

The awards has been going since April 1999 and 314 young teachers from 116 universities and colleges with the average age of 38 have been awarded prizes, said Yao.

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