∷ Beijing Yifang Foundation → Education [Research] → 2017
• Study to Improve of Rural Education in China
Partner Organization: 21st Century Education Research Institute
Project Duration: Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Project Status: Completed
The development of rural education has always been a priority for China. However, domestic migration patterns have given rise to systemic problems in the school structure across the country, inadvertently lowering the quality of rural education. In July 2016, the State Council announced an initiative to restructure the rural education system by 2020.
Along the same lines, the 21st Century Education Research Institute and the Beijing Yifang Foundation decided to collaborate on this project to propose policy recommendations for the State Council’s initiative. The study collected extensive data from four sample regions, compared schools across cities, counties, towns and villages and gathered student’s feedback on education quality. The data was put through rigorous analysis and the outcomes were used to propose pragmatic, balanced and scalable recommendations for the long-term sustainability and development of rural education in China.