China to Train Ethnic Minority TeachersThe Ministry of Education will provide training to all middle and primary school teachers in poverty-stricken ethnic minority areas in the coming three to five years, a ministry official said April 12.Zhang Tianbao, vice education minister, made the pledge at a working conference on improving the quality of teachers in poverty-stricken ethnic minority areas. Upgrading teaching skills is the most important part of education reform and development in poverty-stricken ethnic minority areas, Zhang said. China's 592 state-level poverty-stricken counties have 1.7 million middle and primary school teachers, accounting for 19 percent of the country's total, with 120,000 primary school teachers and 110,000 middle school teachers in these counties having no diplomas. Zhang called on local governments to develop their own training programs and establish a new system to carry out the reform in poor ethnic regions. |
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