Meeting Notes
Agenda
Introduction to China Crossroads (Cuicui and everyone)
Self introduction
Introduction to today's topic (Benyue and everyone)
Ask for feedback on the major points we are discussing (Benyue)
Education Reform Direction Document (Rong)
Equality issue (Rong and others)
Innovation Issue (Cuicui and others)
Social Values and Family Education (Fei and others)
Final words from other countries' education systems (Benyue and others)
Feedback for Education Topic (Benyue and others)
Feedback for China Crossroads (Cuicui and others)
For each subtopic:
1. brief introduction of the issue and what are the social phenomenon, anecdotes or statistics related to the item.
2. ask for any questions from audience
3. ask discussion questions (not limited to the list) :
- is it really an issue
- is it an important issue with high priority
- what are the fundamental causes of the issues
- is the government taking measures to improve the situation, how effective are the measures
- what are some nongovernmental measures to improve the situation, how effective are the measures (technology, firm....)
- what are other countries' experience dealing with similar issue
- what are our suggestions for improvement.
Readings
Equity, Morality and Educational industrialization, written by a Taiwanese (2004)
Governmental education expenditure, vocational education (2011)
Discussants
Chair: Benyue Liu
External Relations: Fei Gao
Logistics: Cuicui Chen
Record: Rong Yuan
Attendees: Junze Xu, Florian Metzler, Hsiu Chung Chan, Takuji Matsumoto, JIngsi Xu, Xianfang Xia, Weiqi Zhang, Su Wang, Ross Collins, Cody Sumter, Feng Tan, Dheera Venkatraman
