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Chinese universities offer online courses

Metro | Education
2011-11-10

CHALLENGING the domination of overseas universities' online courses among Chinese students, 18 domestic universities put their courses online free to the public yesterday. However, some doubt these free courses...

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Officials online

Metro | Education
2011-11-9

MORE than 10,000 Chinese government departments and around 8,600 officials have real-name Weibo accounts, Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers said yesterday. Police departments are the most active on Weibo.com...

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It's back to classes for basketball icon

Metro | Education
2011-11-8

SHANGHAI'S basketball giant Yao Ming showed up in class at a local university yesterday, intent on slam dunking a bachelor degree. The sporting icon began three courses at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with students...

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City school spending need do better

Metro | Education
2011-11-8

SHANGHAI is spending less on schooling than many other cities and areas in the Asia-Pacific region, according to new research. The competitiveness report issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University yesterday, placed...

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School index

Metro | Education
2011-11-5

THE city's education authority has introduced an index to evaluate school education and measure the amount of sleep and homework local students get. It aims to lighten the homework burden and grade the performance...

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'Green' index to measure school performance

Metro | Education
2011-11-4

THE city's education authority has introduced a "green" index to evaluate school education and measure the amount of sleep and homework local students get. The so-called "green appraisal" system aims to lighten...

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Bankrupt software school given new life

Metro | Education
2011-10-25

THE software training institute which closed suddenly last week due to financial problems will resume classes soon as the local education bureau has promised to help. "We will not let students drop out of the school,"...

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Kids learn to say 'no' in sex-ed

Metro | Education
2011-10-25

"NO, you cannot touch my private parts!" A group of primary school students were taught to say this loud and clear in a local sex education class yesterday, when new sex education textbooks were introduced to pupils...

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Student fears over IT school closure

Metro | Education
2011-10-24

HUNDREDS of students were left in the lurch when a software training institute facing financial problems didn't reopen over the weekend as promised, after the college boss allegedly ran off. Yesterday, education...

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Metal chunks bombard school

Metro | Education
2011-10-22

A CITY middle school has been bombarded by chunks of metal from a nearby factory over recent months, terrifying pupils and teachers. Operations to break up components at an elevator parts factory in the Pudong...

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Student plunges to death at school

Metro | Education
2011-10-12

A 17-year-old high school student fell to his death on campus yesterday afternoon - the third case in which a student has plunged from a building in the city in the past four days. The student, surnamed Li, fell...

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Sex-education textbooks heading to 18 schools

Metro | Education
2011-10-11

THE city's first set of sex education textbooks has finished printing and will pilot in 18 primary schools this semester. Many parents welcome the books and some non-local education bureaus have contacted the...

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New staff for nursery closed by dispute

Metro | Education
2011-9-26

A KINDERGARTEN where teachers quit en masse last week in a dispute with the owner has reopened with new staff. Some 130 children had been left in the lurch by the walkout at the unlicensed kindergarten in Fengxian...

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Returnees' kids to get own school

Metro | Education
2011-9-22

SHANGHAI is to launch its first school specially designed for overseas returnees' children next year, as part of efforts to attract global talents. The Shanghai High School will run the school from Grade One...

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Colleges fail on tobacco ban

Metro | Education
2011-9-16

THE majority of local colleges do a poor job of controlling smoking, as 94 percent received a failing grade in an undercover investigation by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control. The major problems are the...