China's education system rewards wealthy urbanites disproportionality and it is getting worse.
https://www.economist.com/china/2021...ir-to-the-poor
China's education system rewards wealthy urbanites disproportionality and it is getting worse.
https://www.economist.com/china/2021...ir-to-the-poor
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So China joins the rest of the world where wealthy get more educational opportunities. Nothing to see here, move along...
Last edited by Coolboy; 05-06-2021 at 07:02 PM.
Isn't it the lack of policy to reverse the trend that is the issue.
https://www.google.com/search?q=xi+j...4dUDCA4&uact=5
How long since the last transition of power at the end of a gun?
The isn't a country in the world that doesn't agree with that.
The problem seems to me that as systems become mature and stable, policy systems that are meant to ensure social mobility become captured by the middle classes who know and game the system, and the whole cycle of decline begins again.
I'm sure Marx had something to say about it a century or two ago already.
China, in common with the rest of the world, has lots of policies to get bright country kids and ethnic minorities into education, such as discounts on the marks required by ethnic minorities to get into university (one of the 'loopholes' that many wealthy people try to exploit, incidentally).
Compared to 50, 100, 150, 200 years ago or any other time period, China is doing a fantastic job at educating a vast population, evidenced by the armies of graduates and the buzzing high tech industries growing at light speed across China.
Whether it is working at the very elite level of the top 2/5/10 universities is a great question, and I'm sure no-one in the Chinese policy community disagrees that more could/should be done to ensure equality of opportunity of access, but as always it is a question of competing priorities.