High School

7 Nov 2011

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic and Miseducated Students
Denise Clark Pope
Published by Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0300098334...

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letters

13 Aug 2011

Keep the MPF true to its purpose

The Mandatory Provident Fund was set up to help ensure employees could afford to live in retirement, using contributions by themselves and their...

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Lawyers demand end to exam restrictions

22 Jul 2008

A group of mainland lawyers has sent an open letter to the Ministry of Education calling for the abolition of residence restrictions on students sitting the national college entrance exams - in...

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More needed for special learning difficulties

2 Jun 2007

Government initiatives to help students with special learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, have failed to pacify parents and legislators.

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Primer on secondary schooling structure

26 May 2007

The new senior secondary structure will be introduced in 2009

It will replace the current seven years of secondary school with three years of junior secondary followed by three years...

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Schools banned from announcing exam results

31 Aug 2006

Schools have been banned from announcing or ranking the test scores of students enrolled in compulsory education, in an effort to ease pressure on students, according to a Beijing newspaper.

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Choices, Choices - Secondary Schools

If your child is heading to secondary school there are particular issues to consider:

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Educators hit back at schools cash cut threat

Reduce class sizes rather than close secondaries, they say

Educators have hit back at a threat to remove funding from schools with falling student numbers by demanding class sizes be...

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Fight school

Two weeks ago, Wahyu Hidayat, an ambitious young student at Indonesia's top college for civil servants, was beaten to death by his fellow students on campus.

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Time to shine

The toughest test facing reforms proposed by the Education Commission is not implementing changes to the system, but winning public acceptance for radical ideas.

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Contract killing Roberta softly

American soul sister Roberta Evans knows all about rejection. The 39-year-old singer and trumpeter has been in the same band for 22 years and she is still waiting for that elusive first record...

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