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Direct linkGang, Cheng; Tao, Lin; Qiaozhen, Lin; Qinghuan, Zhu – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
Education equity is an important means for achieving social equity, but there are few empirical studies on education equity in Chinese academia owing to method limitations. This paper applies a new measurement method to the 2005/6 data of the elementary schools in Zhejiang province and argues that education finance reform in the province has…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Finance Reform, Educational Equity (Finance), Foreign Countries
Dan, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Chaoyang township is one of the poorest townships in a national-level impoverished county in the southwest. Statistics show that the average per capita income for farming families was RMB1,931 per year in 2006. Before the highway came through the area, the residents of Chaoyang township had to walk for two whole days across mountain ranges to get…
Descriptors: School Administration, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Counties
Hongyu, Zhou; Guowei, Liu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
On December 24, 2005, the State Council issued the Circular on Deepening the Rural Compulsory Education Assured Funding Mechanism Reform, initiating the prologue to free compulsory education in China. Following on the heels of China's annulment of rural taxes and the implementation of the new rural cooperative medical system, the rural compulsory…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
Pingping, Hu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In 2006, the Chinese government conducted, in the western provinces and a few central provinces, a reform that exempted all rural compulsory education stage students from tuition and miscellaneous fees, in accordance with the measures for implementing the New Mechanism for Assured Funding for Rural Compulsory Education (hereafter "New…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies
Xuedong, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Compulsory education in China's rural areas has come a long way since China adopted the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world toward the end of 1978. By 2004, compulsory education had become available and illiteracy had been eliminated among 93.6 percent of the nation's total population; the enrollment rate of school-age children…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Finance Reform, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Brock, Andy; Wenbin, Hu; Wong, Christine – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Since 2001, the Chinese central government has begun to take on more financial responsibility for basic education beginning with a modest RMB100 million to provide free textbooks to poor students in western rural areas. This practice has been gradually expanded with the central government providing free textbooks to a widening pool of poor rural…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Rural Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends
