Pre-Trip Task: Exploring China's Education System

Education Structure of XiaMen, China
- 9 years of compulsory study

- Educators are supposed to learn to implement the guidelines, policies, rules concerning educational affairs, and organize, and coordinate the educational innovation of Xiamen towards a better future, to better help the students.

- local governments are primarily responsible for the provision, administration and funding of primary through upper secondary schools ---- system that is highly inequitable across China as rural areas have been unable to produce and allocate the same revenue as urban areas, and consequently are sometimes unable even to pay their teachers.

- this familial pressure has led to a culture of external tutoring in China. Students will often attend these schools or meet with private tutors after their official classes have ended for the day in order to improve their classroom performance.

- all primary and secondary schools across China are to be appointed supervisors by the end of the year, a move that education officials say will improve the regulation of education for children. 

- kids in Xiamen are apparently some of the unhealthiest in China. In Xiamen , nine out of every ten children in Xiamen have eyesight problems, two out of ten are obese, and rates of malnutrition and tooth decay are higher than the national average. 

- nobody can relax as long as the 高考 and 中考 exist, no matter what policies they implemented.

About the school that we are going to visit


Three Question:
1. Which educational system,either China's or Singapore's ,will benefit
the students more academically ?
2. Why the schools in China having longer lesson time than that of Singapore? What are their feelings towards it ?
3. Do students in China really love to go to school ? State reason for both.