Challenges for Shenzhen’s new university boss
DEC 03, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023898
Science : Every autumn when Nobel Prize winners are announced and the world’s most populous nation misses out—yet again—the mass media and blogs here blame an education system that values rote memorization over creativity. Widespread disaffection is a factor, Chinese state media observed, behind the National People’s Congress’s decision earlier this month to sack Education Minister Zhou Ji.But true change may come only from the bottom up. In September, the government of Shenzhen, a city in southern China, appointed physical chemist Zhu Qingshi as president of the planned South University of Science and Technology (SUST). Zhu insisted on also being appointed the university’s Communist Party secretary, making it clear he would be calling the shots.
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