Since the founding of the People‘s Republic of China in 1949, an important governmental effort has been to eliminate illiteracy and popularize compulsory education. At present, the national net enrollment rate in elementary schools is 98.58 percent, and the gross enrollment rate in junior high schools has reached 90 percent. This compares to 1949 when [...]

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　　Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) was founded in Yan’an in 1940. BIT is a national key university, an open, international and research-oriented university of science, engineering and humanities with science and engineering as the focus. It is one of the first universities to run a graduate school and receive privileged fund from the central government [...]

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by Xinhua Writers Zuo Yuanfeng, Wu Jing     
BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — Burdened by his heavy luggage and the scant amount of money in his pocket, Li Ming (anonymous) arrived at Weifang University of Science and Technology only to be told he couldn’t be enrolled. Helpless as he felt, the poor would-be student had never [...]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Brazil was rated below Latin America’s average in terms of children’s educational opportunities, a study released by the World Bank said on Thursday.
The study introduced the Human Opportunity Index (HOI), which measures the equality of chances given to a country’s children based on the assessment of their housing [...]

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Shaanxi Normal University (SNU), founded in 1944, is one of the 6 normal universities directly affiliated to the State Educational Ministry. For 60 years, its staff has worked hard and striven for the prosperity of the university generation after generation. Up to now, SNU has been built into a comprehensive university, with complete disciplines and [...]

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　Communication University of China (CUC) is one of China’s key universities of “Project 211” (a project endorsed by the State Council and designed to upgrade, by the early part of the 21st century, some 100 universities in the hope that some of them would become first-rate world universities) directly under the jurisdiction of the State [...]

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