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12/27/2013

Topic Reading-Vol.625-12/27/2013

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Education reform to reduce reliance on gaokao scores.
Gaokao, China’s three-decade old national entrance examination for colleges, is going to have changes soon. Since it’s the only exam held annually and used to decide the fate of nearly 10 million applicants for higher education in the country, it’s easy to assume what their lives in high school, or even before, are like.
Now after the ruling party’s milestone meeting, Third Plenary Session, which decides what the country is going to aim and do for the next decade, a direction to reform the enrolling system for higher education was announced. Surprisingly, public hearings will be held before finalizing the reform plan. And the direction announced so fat looks similar to the one being proposed in Japan’s Center Exam, which has been playing a similar role for a little over half a million students in the country.
Along with the change in their one-child policy announced earlier, the world most populous country is going to have major changes in its social, demographical and educational structures in the coming decades.
Enjoy reading and learning how life-determining a single exam could be.


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