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Direct linkBrock, Andy – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The widely reported economic divide between the richer eastern provinces and the poorer western provinces in China has an exact parallel in the development of basic education. As a result of geographical, historical and social factors the quality and management of the education system lags considerably behind the east coast. A pioneering project…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Government Role, Educational Principles, Equal Education
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
