Attention is being paid to the problem of migrant children in Beijing accessing education after junior high school. Because Beijing students generally do not want a vocational education, the availability of such education in Beijing is shrinking. But a survey indicates a high demand and desire among the children of migrant workers for a vocational…

After the launch of the new curriculum reforms at the beginning of the new millennia, teachers were expected to transform their conceptions of education by absorbing ideas such as "dual subjectivity," "democratic equality," "scientific inquiry," "collaborative learning," and so on. What sorts of conceptions…

Through surveys of students at Beijing University, Qinghua University, and other institutions, this article finds that today, twenty years after the political disturbance in 1989 and despite the long-term and unremitting efforts made by the Chinese government, China's college students still take a better view of the U.S. political system than they…

This article uses information from a 2009 survey of the employment circumstances of female college students from Beijing's higher education institutions to analyze the differences among college students in the process of job seeking. Such divisions are manifested in terms of gender, household registration, human resources, specializations, and…

This article presents various documents related to Chinese education. These include: (1) Qinghua University Professor Chen Danqing's Letter of Resignation; (2) Declaration by Beijing University Professor He Weifang Suspending Acceptance of Master's-Level Students; (3) An Open Letter by Five Veteran Educators Appealing for Fairness in Education;…

The author of this article was the administrative judge in the People's Court in Haiding District, Beijing during the controversial lawsuit of Tian Yong, a college student required by his school to immediately withdraw from the school on the grounds of cheating. In this article, he relates how this particular case and others have given him a large…

This article describes in detail the Tian Yong v. University of Science and Technology, Beijing case. Plaintiff Tian Yong sued University of Science and Technology for refusing to issue him certificates of graduation and degree. Tian Yong believed that he had met all the criteria to be considered a legally qualified college graduate and that it is…

This article describes in detail the Liu Yanwen v. Degree Evaluation Committee of Beijing University case. The plaintiff Liu Yanwen sued the Degree Evaluation Committee of Beijing University for its disapproval of his doctoral degree. In 1996, although his doctoral thesis titled "An Ultra-Short Laser Pulse Driven High Current Density…

This article presents the decision of the First Intermediate People's Court of Beijing regarding the Liu Yanwen v. Degree Evaluation Committee of Beijing University case. The appellant Liu Yanwen was denied a doctoral degree and thus, he sued Beijing University. He disagreed with an earlier ruling made by the People's Court in Haiding District,…

Beijing University's personnel affairs reform went through five stages: preparations for the reform, sharp criticism, in-depth debate, cooling of the debate and plan formation, and approval and implementation of the plan. This article describes the process of the reform, analyzes the changes to the reform plan from the first draft to the official…

The publicizing of the Beijing University Teacher Personnel System Reform Plan has aroused strong concern among institutions of higher learning nationwide. This is because Beida's graduates will no longer be retained as teachers at the university and Beida's teaching positions will be open to recruitment in China and the world as a whole. In view…

The Beijing University personnel reform has taken a substantive step. Director Zhou Yueming of the Beijing University Personnel Department confirmed the Beida Personnel Department issued a notice over the Beida campus Web site (www.pku.edu.cn) announcing the public recruitment of professors. Ninety-five professorial positions are anticipating…

"We are all ordinary teachers, no more important and no less important than other teachers. However, our biggest common understanding is that we all approve of reform." Today, the Beijing University Chinese Economics Research Center spontaneously organized a series of lectures on the university's reform of its personnel system. Zhou…

The basic principles of the Plan for Reforming Beijing University's Engagements and Promotions System (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) were set forth at the university leadership winter vacation work meeting held in January 2003. On May 9, 2003, the leading group for the university's personnel reform discussed the draft for soliciting opinions and…

This article reports about the plan for reforming Beijing university's engagements and promotion system. The leadership of Beijing University conducted in-depth deliberations on the university's work of building up its faculty contingent in light of the aim of establishing a world-class university and the situation and tasks faced in the current…