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Farmers
reap training benefits 04/14/2003
The Ministry of Agriculture is sowing the seeds of vocational training
among millions of Chinese farmers to help them harvest bumper profits
in urban areas.
Illiteracy
rate among adult people slashed 11/18/2002
The illiteracy rate among people over 15 years old has dropped to
8.72 per cent, according to the Ministry of Education.
Education
programme helps girls in poverty 11/07/2002
More than 13,000 poverty-stricken adolescent girls will have access
to a special education and training programme over the next three
years, which is expected to help them create a better life for themselves
with their own hands.
Star
of Project Hope enters college 09/07/2002
She is not really a household name, but her large, wistful eyes
once looked out from newspapers and billboards all over China.
China
launches aid scheme for college students 09/02/2002
China launched the New Great Wall Project on September 1, an aid
scheme for Chinese college students in need.
Intel
aids Tibet in computer education 09/01/2002
An Intel-funded computer classroom opened in Tibet, southwest China,
Saturday to promote computer science in the autonomous region.
Foundation
cares for poor college students' mental health
07/09/2002
In an upcoming drive to comprehensively help poverty-ridden college
students, a non-profit Chinese organization plans to focus on their
mental health.
China
makes schooling for migrant children easier 07/10/2002
The Chinese government has begun to implement a series of measures
to provide education for its 3 million migrant children who accompany
their rural parents to cities in search of a better life.
"Spring
Bud" program helps 1.15 million girl dropouts 05/31/2002
The "Spring Bud" Program, a national appeal to get girl
school dropouts in poor areas back to school, has collected donations
worth 330 million yuan (US$39.76 million) and helped over 1.15 million
students continue their studies since it was launched in 1989.
Ericsson
helps school dropouts in western China 05/27/2002
Ericsson (China) Company Ltd donated one million yuan (US$121,000)
on Monday to a charity program called "China Children's Day"
to help school dropouts in western China.
China
initiates national scholarship 2002-05-21
The Chinese Ministries of Education and Finance officially initiated
on May 21 the first national scholarship since 1987 to allow poor
college students to complete their schooling.
US$36m
a year for children's education 05/13/2002
Guangdong Province spends about 300 million yuan (US$36.144 million)
a year to help primary and middle school drop-outs finish the nine-year
compulsory education, reports Guangzhou-based Nanfang Daily.
China
expands compulsory education in rural areas 05/10/2002
The Chinese government will put 5 billion yuan (US$604.07 million)
before the end of 2005 into the second phase of its project to promote
compulsory education, to help students in rural areas have schooling,
Ministry of Education sources said in Beijing on May 9.
UNICEF
programme hailed as essential 05/04/2002
The United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) hailed China's strong support for its global "Say
Yes for Children" campaign.
China,
EU launch joint anti-poverty project in Tibetan rural area
04/30/2002
China and the European Union
(EU) jointly launched a poverty-relief program in Lhasa Monday,
to assist 40,000 people in the rural areas of Bainang of Tibet.
Government
to bear main responsibility for rural education: Vice Premier
04/25/2002
Chinese Vice Premier Li Lanqing says that the government is to bear
the main responsibility for compulsory education in rural China.
Charity
fund sets example 04/19/2002
China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF) has
announced its financial accounts will undergo annual audits by an
"independent and authoritative international auditor."
CYDF
adopts strict administration of new educational charity program
04/18/2002
The China Youth Development
Foundation (CYDF), one of the major charity groups in China, has
recently launched a new schooling program under the Project Hope,
aiming to assist some 400,000 needy Chinese students within three
to five years to finish their education.
Asian
countries told to develop IT, long-distance education 04/14/2002
Asian countries should accelerate the development of their information
technology and expand long-distance education on this basis, so
as to propel economic growth.
China
helps minority students to receive remote education 03/27/2002
CHENGDU --Southwest China's Sichuan Province will allocate six million
yuan to construct remote education centers in 12 middle schools
in three minority autonomous prefectures in 2002, said a senior
official in Chengdu.
Poverty
relief via education Is crucial: Lawmaker 03/11/2002
BEIJING -- Poverty relief
via education is crucial to poverty relief to urban residents, according
to lawmaker Wang Zhaorong.
Vice-Premier
calls for all-out support to elementary education 03/07/2002
BEIJING -- Vice-Premier Li
Lanqing encouraged all walks of life across the country to support
elementary education in the western part of China.
Premier
stresses role of science, education in development
03/05/2002
BEIJING -- Premier Zhu Rongji
has highlighted the importance of implementing the strategy of developing
the country through science and education, and expediting scientific
and technological progress and innovation.
Parents
fulfil university dream 04/26/2001
Though living through a life
of hardship and poverty, a Tujia couple did not compromise when
it came to their children's education.
Tuition
to be reduced for poor students 04/03/2001
Parents in China's rural
areas will save significant money on the cost of their children's
education thanks to regulations that demand a reduction in tuition
fees at primary and middle schools.
New
funds earmarked for poorer regions 03/29/2001
The State will invest 5 billion
yuan (US$602 million) in poverty-stricken areas to further expand
primary and middle school education programmes, the Ministry of
Education announced yesterday.
Helping
the poor to get education 03/28/2001
Student loans, a special banking service subsidized by the government,
have proven to be a good way to help poor students fulfil their
dream of pursuing higher education.
Distance
education opens minds 10/30/2000
Despite the Chinese Government's commitment to education, education
for all seemed an unreachable goal for the world's most populous
country a decade ago. For millions of people living in remote, mountainous
and poverty-stricken areas, even if there are schools to go to,
there are no qualified teachers to give them a proper education.
Dropouts
also have a dream 06/13/2000
Campus life is always quiet
and peaceful for me. In piles of books and papers, I submerge myself
in the tower of ivory. However, the seemingly permanent calmness
came to a sudden halt after I made a trip to a tiny, impoverished
village in Zhangxian County in Gansu Province in northwestern China
last year.
Education
gives girls dreams 05/26/2000
I felt exhilarated when a recent national forum on women's development
made a special announcement to adopt "Today's girls, morrow's
women" as the motto to promote girls' right to receive an education.
Education
for all still has long way to go 05/04/2000
As we lament the growing
gap between the world's rich and poor, we do not always refer the
disparity to education.
Project
brings school drop-outs back to class 03/13/2000
One group of students at
Beijing's Hepingli High School is happy to stay after class. When
all the other students are heading home, one class with 30 girls
from the high school are still hard at it in the classroom.
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