Talk:Education in the People's Republic of China

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[edit] Heavy POV: authors unable to give credit where credit is due

The lead sentence implied to the ignorant that education is "now" available to all thanks to Deng's market reforms, and this was bullshit. Education for all was introduced immediately upon the Communist takeover but Western writers seem constitutionally unable to admit that totalitarian Communist societies deliver the goods, especially at first, to the ordinary slob. Basically, the article needs to make the NPOV fact clear: before 1949, education was for the elite, and after 1949, it was available to all...except (cf. Ji-Li Jiang's Red Scarf Girl) children of "bourgeois" who got, instead of education, re-education, a form of education which became a nightmare only after 1966.

The first section simply skipped 1949..1966 and needed to be rectified.

[edit] Chinese Page and Other Languages

I still don't know how to type Chinese well in unicode, but I think this should be linked to the Chinese wikipedia page. Poseidon^3 08:21, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This should be called "Education in the People's Republic of China" WhisperToMe 04:20, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "China"/"PRC" vs. "mainland China" for page titles

Following the long discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) regarding proper titling of Mainland China-related topics, polls for each single case has now been started here. Please come and join the discussion, and cast your vote. Thank you. — Insta ntnood 14:50, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] English Immersion

We should consider adding in something about English Immersion schooling in China, which is becoming more and more common in larger urban centers. Colipon+(T) 00:37, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How old is this article?

"Estimates predict, however, that the demand for teachers will drop in the late 1990s because of an anticipated decrease in primary-school enrollments." Estimates predict, in the 1990s? If I'm not mistaken, the information should already be availble and we should know if the estimates were accurate or not. 67.161.208.117 20:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

As the bottom of the article says:

{{loc}} Most of the text was updated in July 1987. Please update as needed.

-4.154.105.163 15:23, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AGREED!!! This article is desperately in need of an update!!!

It is now 2007, this article can not be used for any purpose other than historical background. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.58.0.134 (talk) 17:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Template:Education infobox

I created a template, Template:Education infobox which can give a quick at a glance demographics table for education articles. See its implementation at Education in the United States and feel free to help improve the template.--naryathegreat | (talk) 01:00, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Random inline comment

Seanmarvel 07:13, 19 May 2006 (UTC) actually, two main trends should be paid attention to:1. pramary education, figure of NOT enrolled, especially those west/interorial area compared with coastal area.2.how many graduates from university comparing the how many graduates cannot find job indicates the wrong direction of policy put their investment into... further more, combine the change in policy with the economic consideration.

[edit] Linking to school subjects

Hi,

I'm very new to Wikipedia editing, but I thought I'd start a topic about if we should link to school subjects when they are listed in an article about education. Chances are someone has already started a discussion on this very subject, but I am not aware of it and I have not found a wikipedia learning page on it.

I'd have to say I think it is a good idea to go ahead and link to the article discussing each school subject if the article you are writing is about education.

I welcome feedback on the subject, even if it is just to say that this subject has already been discussed.

Thanks, -Jon

[edit] Controversies

gw2005 22:02, 27 Jan 2008 (UTC) There is no section of this article on the controversies of the Chinese educational system, all of them were stated within each of the sections. Creating an seperate section would be nice. Controversies such as how the social structure does not support or need a large university/college educated work force. Since there is already a excess amount of them in the urban area.