China is initiating a significant overhaul of its higher education system to align with national and strategic goals. The new ...

Ministry of Education has announced plans to offer an extra 76,000 undergraduate places at top universities by 2030 As China seeks to build on its "engineer dividend" - the advantage created by a vast ...

China’s higher education system has undergone remarkable growth and transformation over the past two decades. According to the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, the number of ...

International students explain the advantages and challenges that come with pursuing a doctoral degree in China.

Dan Tao is associate research fellow at the Research Institute of Science Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. In early 2025, the Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek, ...

Zhang Xuefeng helped people navigate the country’s unforgiving higher education system. The public outpouring after his death was a quiet rebuke to the punishing process. By Li Yuan Zhang Xuefeng ...

They call themselves “rat people,” Chinese slang for young graduates who have given up on conventional success. They join the “lying-flat generation,” who reject the “996” grind (9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six ...

For more than 20 years we’ve had national educational goals aimed at emulating the Chinese (and Japanese and Korean) educational system. We’ve been working toward more centralization of control, more ...