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56% of student startups get low marks

Metro | Education
2009-11-17

MORE than half of government-subsidized student business companies were scored as "mediocre" or even "bad-performing" after years of operation, according to an report released yesterday at the Shanghai Entrepreneurship...

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Fewer at tests

Metro | Education
2009-11-16

AN estimated 65,000 students will take the college entrance exam next year, 10,000 fewer than this year. The number of test takers has been decreasing since 2008 due to declining population. The decreasing trend...

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Test-taker prizes

Metro | Education
2009-11-9

EDUCATIONAL Testing Service, the creator of both the TOEFL and TOEIC tests, will launch scholarship programs recognizing academic excellence by Chinese test takers, officials said yesterday. Forty US$1,500 TOEFL...

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Scribes' 'cradle' notches 80 years

Metro | Education
2009-11-1

FUDAN University's School of Journalism, known as "the cradle of journalists," celebrated its 80th anniversary yesterday in Shanghai. More than 1,500 domestic and overseas alumni, college deans, and media professionals...

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CEIBS set for new expansion

Metro | Education
2009-11-1

CHINA Europe International Business School, a business education joint venture between the European Union and Shanghai government, will further benefit from the city government's support to nearly double its campus...

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City's kindergartens in hot demand

Metro | Education
2009-10-31

SHANGHAI kindergartens are suffering widespread overcrowding amid the ongoing baby boom, education authorities said yesterday. Among the 17 districts and one country in the city, only one district, Changning, hasn't...

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Revealed: campus violenceon increase

Metro | Education
2009-10-29

MOST Shanghai campus violence involves quarrels that escalate, love disputes and bullying and the victims are usually aged between 13 and 17, according to a youth-service hotline. Campus violence accounted for...

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Pupils to undergo safety exercises

Metro | Education
2009-10-28

FROM next year, city students' morning-exercise routes will coincide with emergency-exit thoroughfares. Officials from the Shanghai Education Commission revealed the initiative to a traffic safety education conference...

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Students rocked by school closures

Metro | Education
2009-10-28

A CITY English-language training school with three branches has suddenly closed, leaving more than 1,300 students in the lurch. Students are demanding their tuitions of tens of thousands of yuan be returned. ...

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Students shop for university courses abroad

Metro | Education
2009-10-26

MORE than 20,000 visitors packed the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall over the weekend during an annual education fair by overseas schools. More than 300 institutes from 14 countries displayed booths at the China...

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Native English teachers boost education in Pudong

Metro | Education
2009-10-22

STUDENTS in Pudong have taken more than 60,000 lessons from native English-speaking teachers in the past three years under a 12.55-million-yuan (US$1.85 million) project, Xinmin Evening News reported today. Pudong...

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City MBAs in global spotlight

Metro | Education
2009-10-20

FOUR Shanghai Executive MBA programs have been ranked among the world's top 50 by the prestigious London Financial Times. The Washington-Fudan EMBA program, run by Washington University and Fudan University, was...

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Textbook history

Metro | Education
2009-10-13

AN exhibition featuring the development of Chinese textbooks was launched at Shanghai Normal University yesterday. More than 3,000 books, including the first modern Chinese textbook published in 1897, are on display.

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University first

Metro | Education
2009-10-13

SHANGHAI Jiao Tong University's Antai College of Economics and Management's Master of Science in Management program was listed as 37th in the world by the 2009 Financial Times MSc rankings, officials said. It was...

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Few uni students set up own businesses

Metro | Education
2009-9-29

LESS than 2.9 percent of local university students have started their own businesses although more than 80 percent want to do so, according to a report issued yesterday by education officials. Xue Mingyang, director...