November 30, 2001
Chinese Ministry Backs Community Colleges
China's Education Ministry is backing efforts to build a network of community colleges.
Liu Junyi, the ministry's director of higher education, said in a speech this month at Shanghai Teachers University that China wants to reform its 1,241 vocational higher-education institutions so that they will more closely resemble community colleges in developed countries.
"As we go from a traditional planned economy to a modern market economy, we will have to meet new education needs," he
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