[Note: I was invited to moderate the panel on education at the Annual China Prospect Conference at Columbia University in early November 2012. The panelists, including scholars on migration education, testing and evaluation, cross-cultural adaptation and civil society participation were really informative in sharing insights from their own field/projects. Below is a quote from the organizers, Future China Initiative, on the theme of this panel and link to videos of all sessions.]
Starting with the restoration of the college entrance examination in
1977, education in P.R China has entered a new stage of reform and
development. Enormous competitive pressure of human resource market, the
scarcity of high-quality education resources and the unbalanced
allocation of education resources, the potential inequity of selection
system, the universalization of study abroad and oversea standardized
exams and the booming education industry to meet the diverse demands,all
these jointly depict a unique and huge education market in China. Every
movement of Chinese education reform deeply affects the development of
China and even the entire world. During the past few decades, what ups
and downs the educational reform and development in China has
experienced, how people's ideas about education has been changed, what
kinds of problems the development of China's urban and rural education
system are encountering, what kinds of opportunities and challenges the
increasingly large group of oversea Chinese students are now facing, how
the current education system should be reformed under the overall
background of globalization, these are all topics worthy for further
exploration. Let’s reflect on the past and prospect to the development
of education in the future.
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