A PPT from the Southeast University Medical School circulating online shows that out of 236 freshmen enrolled, only 133 remain, a dropout rate of 43.6%. In Medical Imaging, 6 out of 21 remain, and in the 5+3 integrated clinical program, 39 out of 86 students transferred out. Some students claim that in their freshman year, the class size dropped from over 30 to 14.
On November 5, The Paper reported that universities including Jiangnan University, Heilongjiang University, Wenzhou University, and Northeast Forestry University have introduced AI classroom patrol systems to monitor attendance rates and student engagement (head-up rates). Jiangnan University's system covers 462 classrooms, has analyzed over 120,000 class hours, and automatically sends alerts for abnormal classroom situations, while Southern Medical University uses AI to grade classes.
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun. 15 central inspection teams have been stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 universities under central administration, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, to conduct inspections, receiving reports from the public until December 21.
The eighth round of inspections by the 20th CCP Central Committee has officially begun, with teams stationed at the Ministry of Education and 31 centrally administered universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
On October 14, a university teacher posted on a social platform, saying that what he teaches students is knowledge that is years behind, mocking himself as "a product of the previous industrial revolution teaching knowledge from the era of industrial Cthulhu," and feeling powerless for his students. The post received 857,000 likes and 157,000 reposts.
On October 11, according to domestic media reports, a member of the parent committee at Siji School in Jinwan District, Zhuhai, proposed in a group chat that parents take turns going to the school to supervise students' midday rest, claiming the move was intended to allow teachers to rest better.
According to a report by The Washington Post on October 2, China's Ministry of Education recently stated that it expects all schools to offer AI education before 2030, establishing an AI literacy system covering all educational stages and society as a whole.
On September 29, the Beijing Institute of Technology announced that faculty member Pei Yi had seriously violated professional conduct standards for teachers, revoking his qualification as a graduate supervisor and terminating his employment. Pei Yi had previously sparked controversy over remarks made in class discussing feminism and noting that all members of the Politburo Standing Committee are male.
According to a September 29 report by the Chinese edition of The New York Times, China will include Jane Eyre in the ninth-grade Chinese "whole-book reading" list this autumn, and ninth-graders across the country are required to read it in full. State media said it helps foster a positive outlook on life and understand equality and an independent personality in love.
A netizen shared a video of two elderly people fighting over cardboard boxes, sparking sighs in the comments section about social involution. Some netizens pointed out that given the involution and food safety issues in China, many people might not even live long enough to reach the age of fighting over cardboard boxes.
Ministry of Education spokesperson and Vice Minister Wang Guangyan announced that China has built the world's largest and highest-quality education system, with 270 million people having received higher education.
The Ministry of Education released the "Management Measures for Primary and Secondary School Leadership Personnel," stipulating that having taught in rural and weak schools for more than 3 years will be a priority condition for the selection of school leaders, and encouraging leaders of quality urban schools to exchange, take up posts, and study in rural schools.
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education compiled by Yicai, among full-time primary and secondary school teachers nationwide, 5,910 hold a doctoral degree and 855,634 hold a master's degree, totaling more than 860,000; on September 14, the topic "Over 860,000 Master's and Doctoral Degree Holders Teaching in Primary and Secondary Schools" trended on Weibo's hot search.
On September 11, netizens released the ninth-grade first-semester "Morality and Rule of Law" textbook compiled by the Ministry of Education, which requires students to arm their minds with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. It also quotes "A household with a thousand mouths is led by one person" and emphasizes the maintenance of Xi Jinping's core position, sparking public attention.
Affected by the decline in the birth population and the concentration of population in urban areas, the number of primary schools in China has rapidly decreased. Data from the Ministry of Education shows that the number of regular primary schools nationwide has decreased by about 29,700 in five years. Many places have begun to revitalize and utilize idle rural primary and secondary school buildings, converting them into facilities such as elderly care service centers, highlighting the background of accelerating low birth rates and aging population.