Bringing equal education to the west
Despite great progress in China's education system over the past six decades, the country still faces a huge challenge ensuring equal access to quality education for every citizen, a senior Chinese education official said.
"The biggest challenge in Chinese education reform and development now is how to achieve education equity," Vice Minister of Education Hao Ping told China Daily on the sidelines of the inaugural International Education Roundtable in Singapore recently.
Education ministers and senior government officials from seven top-performing school systems in Australia, Canada, the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Sweden and the United States attended the roundtable to discuss ways to nurture educated citizens and to develop mobile education systems through innovative technologies.
