Students arrived for the first day of the college entrance test in June in Wuhan, Hubei Province
Beijing, CHINA - The test that can determine the rest of a high school student graduate's life is called the Gao Koa. It is the prerequisite for entrance to almost all higher education in China. The test is given in early June of the year. Recently, the highly revered exam has received criticism.
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There are fewer slots than there are available graduates. This year there were over 9 million HS graduates for 7 million higher ED slots.
There is a quota bias system that favor students who live in the larger cities vs rural areas.
The tests are given for 2-3 days.
Students take the test very seriously. In fact, in the video you will see a young man named Yang who has been studying 13 hours for 7 days a week for 365 days.
You will also see a young man named Gao who has options outside of China due to his family's wealth - they are accountants. They have allotted $40K a year for their son to study aboard. Therefore, he will not take the Gao Koa test.
Both Yang and Gao have parents that have given much for their son to advance.
It appears that both of the families are a family that is single-male child.
Yang's parents are not able to send him abroad for study. They have already invested in an apartment cost for him in high school so he would not have to take much time in travel from studying.
Back to America
Either one of these young men would run rings around any and all of the students here in America. It speaks to the location of America's school achievement, but more to the priorities and efficiencies we have in place for the population to serve.
Because America yet has a hype from its legacy, students yet come here for higher education.
For those who can pay big bucks, they are advanced to the front of the line. It allows well-off students from China to buy a spot in America's higher education universities for the right price.
University of WI - Milwaukee
seated, L-R -- Provost Johannes Britz and Chancellor Michael Lovell
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Chancellor Michael Lovell and Provost Johannes Britz visited China, last of 2011, and signed an agreement to create a "special" training component for some of the Chinese students that can afford to come - no doubt similar to Gao.
The problem with the revenue streaming, Chancellor and Provost went 6506 miles to Beijing, China and have refused to created a pipeline (2.1 miles) to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to ensure that Milwaukeeans, who pay taxes and entitled to a public education, state statute 36, get a competitive education.
Do they think the Chinese students are coming and not going to return home to empower their family and country values.
This is another version of those in places of TRUST, failing to provide principled-centered leadership while "walking and chewing gum". UW Regents, Chancellor Lovell and Provost Britz are moving Wisconsin, especially Milwaukeeans to the fiscal, education and technology cliff.
Yes. We know about the economy. That's the point.
Yes. We know about what Governor Scott Walker has proposed and done.
Yes. We know revenue is a concern. But, UW-Milwaukee was put in place to "grow-our-own" as a way of sustaining our state. The last time I checked, we owe a debt that is in the "trillions". Training others and failing to train your own is "derelection of duty", "abandonment" and "greed" - we see this with the banks.
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