China to try out credit system in senior high schools

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China to try out credit system in senior high schools

China will make a try of credit system in regular senior high schools. Ministry of Education is preparing pilot courses for implementing the new curriculum in September.

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China will make a try of credit system in regular senior high schools. Ministry of Education is preparing pilot courses for implementing the new curriculum in September.

As reported this autumn will see three provinces plus one autonomous region including Guangdong, Shandong, Hainan and Ningxia to adopt the new curriculum and initial-year students will make up 13 percent in the program. By autumn 2005 eight or ten provinces will join according to plan. By autumn 2006 there will be fifteen to eighteen and by 2007 all initial-year students will have to join the program in principle. That is, all the students will adopt the new curriculum from the first year of their senior high education. Regular senior high schools in Beijing will adopt the pilot curriculum in 2005.

Zhu Muju, deputy director for Elementary Education Department of the Ministry of Education, dealt with the specific aims of the curriculum reform. That is to select carefully the basic content necessary for lifelong education; construct curriculum structure with the stress laid on fundamentals, diversified arrangement and integration; create curriculum implementation environment in favor of establishing new study methods so as to improve students' ability for independent study, cooperation and communication as well as the ability to analyze and synthesize etc.

As learned the blueprint and standard for the new curriculum have been approved and officially issued by the Ministry of Education. According to the Curriculum Plan established by the Ministry of Education senior high education will adopt credit system. Students must earn certain number of credits in every study field each year and 116 compulsory credits in three years (including 15 credits in research study activities, 2 credits in community service and 6 credits in social practice). At least six credits in selective �� are required and a total credits of 144 are demanded before graduation. The courses in the first year of senior high school education are mainly compulsory courses with elective courses to increase gradually. Student may select cross-class courses. In the second term of the third year the school should make sure that every student has the necessary amount of physical and artistic activity. The students are encouraged to continue studying certain courses according to their interests and needs and earn credits. Arrangement for overall review is also allowed.

While making sure to offer all modules of compulsory courses the school should actively create conditions for setting up programs for elective courses and gradually increase the offer of rich and varied and high quality elective courses.

By People's Daily Online

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