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Schools told to use Green Dam

ABOUT 4 million computers at all the 1,500-some local primary and secondary schools will be equipped with newly developed software that blocks access to online pornography by the end of this month. The Shanghai...

The trials of a devoted mother

A MOTHER from Zhejiang Province paid 100,000 yuan (US$14,628) and took a 10-month leave of absence from work to help her son prepare for the college entrance examination in Shanghai. Yue Li, an accountant in the...

Testing times for teachers too

THIS year was the first time Zhou Lili, a local high school teacher, had helped prepare senior students sitting their college entrance examination. She had risen up early over the past three days to get to the...

Investigation launched into plagiarism scandal

A SHANGHAI university set up a team yesterday to investigate a suspected plagiarism scandal involving one of its professors. The investigation in the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics followed media...

Shanghai student numbers drop 20%

FEWER Shanghai students are taking the national college entrance examination this year. More than 73,800 of the city's high school graduates are sitting the three-day exam which began yesterday. That's more...

Children less happy the older they get

CHILDREN in the city say they're pretty happy despite a heavy burden of school work and lack of leisure time, according to a child happiness index released yesterday. The survey conducted among more than 10,000...

Oracle Bay to bolster financial training

A financial training center was launched in Pudong New Area's Lujiazui yesterday to fortify the city's plan to become a global financial hub. The center, Oracle Bay, which is not linked to the Oracle software...

Education law

A NEW regulation explaining the country's compulsory education law will go into effect next month, according to the Shanghai Education Commission. For the first time, the regulation ruled that school officials...

Fund studies

FUDAN University launched the Chinese mainland's first postgraduate program in fund management yesterday. Sixty students were picked as the first batch of candidates for the three-year course.

More emphasis to be put on Chinese handwriting classes

LOCAL primary and junior high schools will increase their Chinese handwriting classes, as instructed by the city education commission, which is trying to save students from becoming "character illiterate" because of...

English centers

THREE or four new IELTS (International English Language Testing System) test centers will be introduced to China's mainland this year, including one in Shanghai's Songjiang District, officials announced at an IELTS...

CEIBS ranking

THE China Europe International Business School saw its Executive Education program rise in the Financial Times' 2009 global rankings, which were released yesterday. The CEIBS Open Enrolment Executive Education...

Laid-off worker to study for his PhD

A 38-YEAR-OLD man from Liaoning Province is to be the first student allowed to study for a PhD at Fudan University with just a high school diploma since the national academic degree system was implemented in 1981. ...

City hoping for a rise in foreign students

AUTHORITIES hope the proportion of overseas students at Shanghai's universities and colleges will increase to 8 percent next year from 5.9 percent in 2007, according to a report on the modernization of the city's...

Suicide tops college death list

SHANGHAI'S universities will add psychological health courses to their curricula this year after a report showed that suicide was the top cause of death among college students in 2008. Nineteen local college students...