Study in the U.S. without leaving China

Posted by in Uncategorized Feb 24th, 2004

Here is a story about a new education plan targeting youths in rural China from the People's Daily with a vast distance education network that is supposed to reach up to 200,000 students. It's an ambitious, yet flawed project as it mainly targets 'one student, one village' with little thought to providing access to a large number of students through a market oriented system. I wonder if any distance educators in the U.S. could part the Red Curtain and provide low-cost, high quality education to great numbers of Chinese students through distance education portals. But then I wonder how receptive the Chinese government would be to this. Write to me and leave your comments here if you have any ideas about this.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

China's Central Radio and Television University will play a main role in implementing the plan, officials said, with the university, together with similar universities at all levels, constituting a distance education network across the vast most-populated nation on the planet.

The need for well-educated human talent is more and more urgent in China's villages, especially in villages in the western regions, said Vice-Minister of Education Wu Qidi.

Chinese students interested in studying in the United States have many traditional university options, but for those students in rural areas like this new program is supposed to address, it will still be hard to come up with the money to come to the U.S. to study. Why not set up education portals in rural China that link to distance education courses?

Anyway, here is one link from the University of Phoenix Online with information for international students. I'll try to dig up more in the coming days.

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