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  2. History of education in China - Wikipedia

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    The history of education in China began with the birth of the Chinese civilization.Nobles often set up educational establishments for their offspring. Establishment of the imperial examinations (advocated in the Warring States period, originated in Han, founded in Tang) was instrumental in the transition from an aristocratic to a meritocratic government.

  3. Literacy in China - Wikipedia

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    According to reports, from January to September 1958 alone, 100 million young and middle-aged people were made literate. For example, I don't believe in wiping out illiteracy in half a year or a year, but it will be good during the second five-year plan." [check quotation syntax] [attribution needed] Since then, the "literacy leap" has cooled down.

  4. Scholar-official - Wikipedia

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    Scholar-official as a concept and social class first appeared during the Warring States period; before that, the Shi and Da Fu were two different classes.During the Western Zhou dynasty, the Duke of Zhou divided the social classes into the king, feudal lords, Da Fu, Shi, ordinary people, and slaves.

  5. Education in China - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the planners expected that secondary education and university entrants would have increased by the year 2000. The second category targeted under the 9-year compulsory education law consisted of towns and villages with medium-level development (around 50 percent of China's population), where universal education was expected to reach ...

  6. List of primary education systems by country - Wikipedia

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    Secondary school teaching in Ireland consists of 6 class levels. These are: 1st year (12–13 years) 2nd year (13–14 years) 3rd year (14–15 years) 4th year/Transition Year(TY) (15–16 years) This year is optional. 5th year (16–17 years) 6th year (17–18 years) The content of the Religion course taught depends on the management of the ...

  7. Chinese character education - Wikipedia

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    In June 1952, the Ministry of Education of China published a list of commonly used literacy characters, including 2,000 characters for use in literacy textbooks. In 1984, the Ministry of Education in China announced that the proportion of illiterate people in the total population dropped from more than 80% in 1949 to 23.5% in 1982.

  8. 'Rotten-tail kids': China's rising youth unemployment breeds ...

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    BEIJING (Reuters) -Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept low-paying work or even subsist on their parents' pensions ...

  9. Qing literati - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal inscribed boards with the titles of the imperial exam winners: zhuangyuan 状元 (1st place),bangyan 榜眼 (2nd),tanhua 探花 (3rd). Qing dynasty. Examination success meant earning a chance of appointment to office, but those chances changed dramatically from Ming to Qing as the population rose but the number of official positions did not.