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March/April
2002
Volume 15
Issue 2
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Education
in China
by
Robert Sedgwick
and Xiao Chen
The
People's Republic of China is the world's most populous nation, with 1.2
billion people and more than 50 ethnic groups. About 80 percent live in
rural areas. The inland and plateau regions are far less developed than
the coastal regions, a fact that stymied the government's goal to universalize
primary education by 1990.
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New
Arctic School Offers First Online Course
The
University of the Arctic, a
new network of academic institutions and programs in the Arctic
or "circumpolar" North, recently launched its first online
course.
The
class, BCS 100 "Introduction to the Circumpolar World,"
is comprised of 27 students from six Northern areas, including Canada,
Greenland, Finland and Russia.
"We're
very excited," said Sally Weber, chairwoman of the Council
of the University of the Arctic. "BCS 100 has been developed
by leading scholars and educators from around the circumpolar world.
It's interdisciplinary. It's circumpolar. And it's very, very current.
For the first time ever, so far as we know, students from all over
the circumpolar world will be part of a single virtual classroom."
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Who
is Paying for Higher Education — and Why?
by Philip
G. Altbach
A key debate in the United States, as in other countries, relates
to the cost of higher education, whether higher education is affordable,
especially for students from lower-income families, and where the responsibilities
for funding postsecondary education should lie.
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