SURVEY: CHINA’S STUDENTS UNDER MORE STRESS THAN THOSE IN OTHER COUNTRIES
China’s senior high school students suffer a far greater rate of “high or comparatively high stress” than students in three other countries, an international survey has found. More than 86 percent of Chinese senior high students felt under high stress, compared with 69 percent in Japan, 74.8 percent in the Republic of Korea and 61.7 percent in the United States. The poll found the top causes of stress in China were parents’ expectations, followed by the students themselves. The Chinese government is considering reforms to the country’s education system to raise standards and provide more opportunities with a 10-year blueprint up to 2020. Sun Xiaobin, a senior official with the Ministry of Education, said last month that the reforms should ease the pressure as test results would be paired with student interviews and evaluation of the student’s high school performance as part of the overall university admissions criteria.
Source: Xinhua News
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-04/09/c_13244085.htm
