{"id":306,"date":"2007-11-18T21:24:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-11-19T21:42:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T21:42:03","slug":"education-is-number-1-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/education-is-number-1-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Education is Number 1 in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is now the largest higher education system in the world: it awards more university degrees than the US and India combined.  But its not just volume, its quality and growth too.  China has identified education as a priority and invested in its education system so that in a few years it has transformed itself and it will continue to do so.  It is winning the war of the future already.<\/p>\n<p>At the  Worldwide Universities Network conference, the audience was given a dramatic insight in to China&#8217;s education system.  Here are some of the facts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University enrolments in China have risen from under 10% of young people in 1999 to over 21% in 2006, an unusually fast expansion.<\/li>\n<li>In 1996 China produced just 5,000 PhD students a year (that was only about half the number in the UK, Japan or India).  Now China awards more doctoral degrees than any other country except the US.<\/li>\n<li>34,000 students enrolled in 2006 and there will be over 50,000 enrolled a year in just three or four years, overtaking the US.<\/li>\n<li> China now has 5 universities in the top 100.<\/li>\n<li>A conscious policy of investment in higher education has transformed spending of just 1% of GDP on higher education in 1998 to a target figure for 2007 is 4%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last fact tells the story: China takes education seriously and is investing resources in its brain power.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/7098561.stm\">BBC report<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is now the largest higher education system in the world: it awards more university degrees than the US and India combined. But its not just volume, its quality and growth too. China has identified education as a priority and invested in its education system so that in a few years it has transformed itself &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/education-is-number-1-in-china\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education is Number 1 in China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}