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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