Secondary Education In China

Apart from general senior secondary education all other four educational school are being referred to as secondary vocational schools. Students undertake a public examination that is called Zhongkao before entering senior secondary schools, and their admission to secondary education depends on their score in zhongkao examination. The government uses examination results from Zhongkao to allocate students to various senior secondary schools depending on their score. According to researches China has made significant efforts to expand participation in secondary vocational schools in recent years in order to meet the country’s fast evolving economic and manpower needs. According to UNESCO-UIS (2016), in 2014, secondary vocational schools accounted

While an associate degrees take three years to complete, and students can use two to three years to completing a master’s degree. For A doctoral degree its requires five years of study after a bachelor’s degree, and three years after a master’s. In addition to these tertiary education programmers, Chinese students can also enroll in professional higher education programmers, which normally take three years. Normally admittances to undergraduate programmed are based on students’ college entrance examination (gaokao) results. A few exceptional cases can be considered without the examination result. Admittances at the graduate level are based on another entrance examination. However, some students can be admitted due to recommendations.

Past

Many scholars believes the history of education in china can be trace back at as far as the 16th century B.C during Xia Dynasty in 1523-1027 B.C, however through out this period education was the privilege of the elites. As far back as the Shang Dynasty 16th century

Little well known but equally impressive and China has made great progresses in education in a comparatively short period of time and its ambitious plans for the future. China has a confident long-term vision for investing in its education to raise its people out of poverty and train them for the global economy. According to scholar China has almost eliminated illiteracy among its 1.3 billion citizens, it has also expanded its nine years of basic education across its expansive territories and has developed elite high schools with world-class standards especially in math and science. Lastly china has already started teaching English as a second language from third grade on. This has intensely expanded the number of students in higher education from 1.4% of the age group since 1978 to 20% now. Internationally china has training program for international student to learn Chinese language in some country as well as in side china, student can even take HSK exam to be able to enter Chinese university that are being taught in Chinese language on their arrival in china. China has a future plan to have universal education by 2020 and develop world-class universities. Strengths of the Chinese education system, including an internationally oriented curriculum in high schools, an intensive focus on math and science, the systematic use of international benchmarking to modernize education policies and a