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A brief introduction to the Chinese education system
Education & Development

A brief introduction to the Chinese education system

...good universities, the pressure to do well for Gao Kao is intense. Many schools hold extra morning classes in science and math for three to four hours on Saturdays. If schools do not have Saturday morning classes, most parents would send their children to expensive cramming schools at weekends or organise one-to-one private tuition for their children over the weekend....
Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year

...children be born in the year of the dragon - it gives them a head start! The table below shows the 12 animal signs and their corresponding years in the last cycle: Year Animal sign Character Pinyin 2012 Dragon 龙 lóng 2013 Snake (small dragon) 蛇(小 龙) shé (xiǎo lóng) 2014 Horse 马 mǎ 2015 Sheep 羊 yáng 2016 Monkey 猴 hóu 2017 Rooster 鸡 jī 2018 Dog 狗 g...
Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year

...children wear tiger-headed embroidered shoes for good luck. Each Chinese Lunar year is associated with an animal sign according to a 12-year-cycle. Babies born between 1 February 2022 and 22 January 2023 will be given the animal sign ‘Tiger’. Recent and upcoming years of the Tiger are 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 and 2022. As the tiger is considered to be...
Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...children do not simply copy what they have heard. For example, children may make up words for concepts they have not yet heard the word for. Later they are likely to encounter the appropriate words. As they develop their knowledge of a language, children also use this language to learn about the world. In formal educational contexts, spoken interaction is also vitally...
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, the year of the SDG deadline. The target to achieve universal primary education, which remains within the broader SDG on education, won’t happen until 2042. On the same trajectory, the new target for universal lower secondary education will come about in 2059 and universal upper secondary in 2084....
English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
History & The Arts

English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation

...children to read on the grounds that it feeds the imagination, informs us about the world and teaches a kind of empathy through the different perspectives it affords. (More concrete evidence exists for the benefits of regularly reading literature – and being read to – for children’s cognitive development and educational attainment.) For those of us lucky enough to...
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...children from poor families to go on holiday. It's really sad how thousands of children in the UK have never been away from home and they haven't had a single family holiday in their whole life. They just spend the holidays hanging around and don't get to see other places. Some kids have never even seen the sea, built a sand castle, run along a beach. If you could give...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...children in the household? The calculator gives its results in terms of your individual or personal emissions, both direct and indirect. However, household income and a much consumption (eg, heating, vehicle use, the house itself, services like mortgage payments, and hence responsibility for their emissions) is usually shared. The result is emissions per person are lower...