The central government has set aside Yn6bn to support maintenance work on old and dangerous school buildings in China's central and western areas, China Daily said. The announcement was made at a national conference on rural education development held in September in Beijing. Another special fund would be used to exempt rural schoolchildren from tuition […]
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The WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University has launched its EMBA programme in China in co-operation with the Ministry of Finance, the Financial Times reported. The two-year part-time course will be delivered face-to-face in Mandarin, with interpreters for faculty who cannot speak the language. Two-thirds of the participants will be senior managers […]
Competitive selection for civil service Nearly 60 per cent of promotions in the civil service were achieved through competitive selection last year, reported People's Daily. Some 353,000 officials have been promoted through such means since 1999. Making the ection process more transparent throughincreased use of examinations and interviews would help curb corruption and favouritism. The […]
Li Rongrong. director of the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, said that his commission would give priority to improving the boards of directors of state-owned firms, Xinhua reported.
The Graduate Management Admissions Test has been suspended in China following the outbreak of Sars. The president of the Graduate Management Admissions Council, David Wilson, said that the test would resume as soon as the National Education Examinations Authority allowed. Beijing municipal government said that the annual college entrance examination would be held as planned […]