More enrollment for rural students as China eyes higher education's role in poverty ...
More enrollment for rural students as China eyes higher education's role in poverty ...
- The stunning twist in her life is largely thanks to a national program to provide poor rural students with the chance to access top universities. With vast disparities in teaching standards among different regions, high school graduates from underdeveloped areas once had very little chance of making into the best universities. A sweeping reworking of the higher education system has changed all that and students from underdeveloped areas now compete on a more equal footing with those from more affluent parts of the country. Enrollment quotas have increased recruitment of students from central, western and remote rural areas.
- The stunning twist in her life is largely thanks to a national program to provide poor rural students with the chance to access top universities. With vast disparities in teaching standards among different regions, high school graduates from underdeveloped areas once had very little chance of making into the best universities. A sweeping reworking of the higher education system has changed all that and students from underdeveloped areas now compete on a more equal footing with those from more affluent parts of the country. Enrollment quotas have increased recruitment of students from central, western and remote rural areas.