Education reform in China
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- Created on: 02-01-15 13:31
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- Education reform in China
- Literacy rates improved: 1949-1976 due to the reform of Mandarin in 1955
- 'Language reform' - helped education as it introduced a form of Mandarin that everybody could use - Pinyin
- Primary education had been set up in the mid 1950s
- Percentage of population with basic reading and writing skills: 1949: 20% > 1976: 70%
- Educational failure during this time (1982: 6 years after Mao's death):
- Fewer than 1% of the working population had a university degree
- Only 11% had received schooling after the age of 16
- Only 6% of the CCP had been formally educated after the age of 16
- The fact that the PRC had such a poorly educated workforce indicated how unrealistic his dreams had been for modernising China
- The Cultural Revolution (1966-1970) undermined Chinese education:
- 130 million Chinese youngsters stopped attending school or university
- Students were encouraged to ridicule/attack teachers and reject all forms of education
- 130 million Chinese youngsters stopped attending school or university
- Literacy rates improved: 1949-1976 due to the reform of Mandarin in 1955
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