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Canteen checks

Metro | Education
2011-9-9

THE Shanghai Education Commission issued a notice yesterday, ordering local schools to launch inspections of Muslim canteens to guarantee the quality of food for the minority groups. Schools are banned from hiring...

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Home school based on ancients in illegal shadow

Metro | Education
2011-9-6

MEN Mu Tang, based on ancient Chinese teaching methods, is an illegal, privately run school and parents should send their children to government-licensed schools instead, the Shanghai Education Commission reiterated...

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44 headmasters shadowed California counterparts

Metro | Education
2011-9-5

A total of 44 elementary and secondary school principals have benefited from the Shanghai-California Principal Shadowing Program over the past three years, the Shanghai Education Commission said today. The Shanghai...

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Girl 'ordered to apologize' for Shanghai dialect

Metro | Education
2011-9-5

A SHANGHAI high school student's story of being ordered to write an 800-word letter of apology for speaking her local dialect in class has sparked a public outcry about the fast-disappearing dialect. The Minhang...

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Students ill after dissecting goats

Metro | Education
2011-9-4

TWENTY-SEVEN students and a teacher caught a severe disease when dissecting goats at a university in northeast China, China Youth Daily reported yesterday. The victims from Northeast Agricultural University in...

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Third of kids miss kindergarten opening amid safety fears

Metro | Education
2011-9-2

ON the first day of the new semester yesterday, 71 of the 203 registered children were absent from school at a downtown kindergarten whose environmental safety is under debate. The absences marred the debut of...

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Textbooks on sex pulled back

Metro | Education
2011-9-1

THE city's first sex education textbook for pupils in grades one and two was removed from the shelves yesterday, one day after its release, arousing suspicions that it was banned because of public opposition. The...

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Sex-ed book for early grades

Metro | Education
2011-8-31

THE first sex education textbook for pupils in grades one and two will be introduced to local classrooms this semester. Compared with the Beijing sex education textbook that has sparked controversy, the Shanghai...

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Summer vacation ending with 14 drownings

Metro | Education
2011-8-30

FOURTEEN primary and secondary school students lost their lives in 12 drowning incidents in Shanghai during the summer vacation - the same number as last year - and education authorities are urging local schools to...

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English-only pub? No way

Metro | Education
2011-8-30

AN online charge that the staff at a Shanghai pub would speak only English to Chinese customers was dismissed by its owner last night. On weibo.com, a poster complained that he and his friend couldn't understand...

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Help for students

Metro | Education
2011-8-29

UNIVERSITIES geared up for the new semester over the weekend. Fudan University deposited 100 yuan (US$15.7) in student accounts of those from families in poverty to aid their education. Tongji University provided bed...

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Universities' foreign students to get prep classes

Metro | Education
2011-8-29

THE city will launch preparatory courses for foreign students studying at local universities next year to attract more overseas students, according to the Shanghai Education Commission's new school year working agenda. ...

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Academic punished over student's theses fraud

Metro | Education
2011-8-24

A TOP medical academic in the city has been banned from working as an advisor to PhD candidates, after one of his students was found guilty of academic fraud. Sun Xinghuai, president of Shanghai Eye, Ear, Nose...

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Students demand intern pay

Metro | Education
2011-8-24

SCORES of out-of-town high school graduates are demanding their pay for summer vacation "internship" work at a factory in Shanghai. They were brought to work in the city by Ganxi College in Jiangxi Province, which...

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College newspaper agents seek to cash in

Metro | Education
2011-8-20

MANY promoters of English-language newspapers for students are poised on college campuses, ready to cash in on newcomers with a new school year about to start. Newspapers written in English, such as the College...