CHINA-EDUCATION: CHINA CALLS FOR UPGRADING QUALITY OF ONLINE AND LONG DISTANCE EDUCATION

China’s Ministry of Education has called for a three-year revamp of the higher education system, aiming to devote vast resources to undergraduate studies, including the expertise of those who are part of its controversial Thousand Talents Program.
The ministry wants 10,000 national-level courses and 10,000 provincial-level courses of “top quality,” taught online, offline, via virtual reality and in practical settings, by 2021. Those courses will be designed by “high level talent” such as scholars of the renowned Chinese academies of sciences and engineering and the Thousand Talents Program, a government-backed recruitment project to lure scientific talent from foreign countries to work in China.Caixin reported (November 2) that China’s Thousand Talents Program  has got mired in controversy both at home and abroad. The U.S. government alleges that the initiative, designed to use foreign-educated researchers to fulfill Beijing’s broader desire to become a global leader in high-tech areas, encourages intellectual property theft from American institutions. He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claimed last year to have helped create the world’s first genetically edited human babies, participated in the program, as did the CEO of a Chinese startup that said it built China’s first fully homegrown web browser, later revealed to be based on Google Chrome. In May, Emory University in the U.S. fired two Chinese-American researchers for allegedly failing to fully reveal their ties to China. One of the two was a member of the Thousand Talents Program.






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