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The AI College Boom Is Outrunning the Teachers Who Have to Make It Work
In September 2026, the busiest thing on Chinese campuses was not opening ceremonies. It was plaque unveilings. Northwestern Polytechnical University launched a School of Flexible Electronics. Xiamen University unveiled a School of Intelligent Manufacturing. Nanjing Medical University’s Changzhou campus launched six innovation platforms at once. Earlier, Huazhong University of Science and Technology applied to add four majors, including Embodied Intelligence and Brain-Computer Science and Technology. Communication University of China sought to add Game Science and Technology, Esports, and other programs. Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University, and seven other schools introduced embodied intelligence majors. Anhui Normal University, a teacher-training school, launched three new engineering colleges aimed at artificial intelligence.
By Jin21 days ago in Education
Who Really Runs China’s Schools? The 2,898 People Who Never Taught
Who really runs China’s grassroots schools? The 2,898 people in charge In 2019, Beijing Normal University surveyed 2,898 education bureau directors across 26 provinces. Cheng Jianping, then a national political advisor and party secretary of the university, found the results alarming. Many grassroots education leaders had been appointed or transferred from outside education. They lacked the professional capacity to guide reform. A book by Cong Chunxia of the National Academy of Education Administration added detail: only 39.3 percent of directors had previously served as principals or deputy bureau directors. 60.7 percent came from township governments, county party committees, or county government offices. Among sitting directors, 43 percent had no education work experience.
By Jin23 days ago in Education
My Daughter’s Classroom Was 20 Degrees. The Teacher Told Her to Wear More.
The Vent When my daughter came out of the school gate, she had her zipper pulled up to her chin. She pushed her hand into my pocket. Her fingertips were cold. The afternoon sun had gone weak, and the maple leaves along the fence had begun to curl at the edges.
By Jin24 days ago in Education
The 318/320 That Shouldn’t Exist
318. Full marks for the theoretical round: 320. On the Jiangsu regional score sheet, that number is followed by a name: a second-year student at Haian Middle School. Experimental score: 73. Total: 391. Another competitor is mentioned repeatedly: from Nanjing Normal University Affiliated High School—second in Quantum, first in Aipeiyou joint exam, total 340.
By Jin26 days ago in Education
Structuring Your Mandarin Study Plan for Professional Career Opportunities in China
Securing a senior corporate position in a tier-one Chinese metropolis requires more than just industry expertise. While conversational Mandarin picked up from street interactions helps you navigate subway transfers, corporate environments demand a nuanced, formal level of proficiency. Many expatriates arrive with foundational vocabulary, assuming daily immersion will naturally bridge the gap to business fluency. However, the transition from casual listening to certified professional communication remains a major hurdle. Relying on informal workplace banter creates a false sense of security, leaving professionals unprepared for official visa applications and competitive localized hiring.
By Solution Boxes27 days ago in Education
How Carhartt and PLC Detroit Are Preparing the Next Generation of Hardworking Creatives
A student with an apparel idea needs more than a sketchbook to turn that concept into a product. The process requires workspace, professional equipment, technical knowledge, constructive feedback and an understanding of how the apparel industry operates.
By Phyllis Caddell27 days ago in Education
She Said No. He Kept Sending “I’d Love to Visit Your Home.” A Guizhou Teacher’s Transfer Is Not the End.
She said she didn't want private contact. He kept sending "I'd love to visit your home." On September 18, at Dafang County No. 2 Middle School in Bijie, Guizhou, a physics teacher sent WeChat messages to a female student. In screenshots, he wrote: "Actually, I have never stopped loving you." He also wrote: "In my heart, you are my family." Then: "I'd really love to visit your home, but I don't know the way." The student replied: "Privately, I don't want any more small talk or one-on-one contact." She said no. He kept sending. A netizen later called police. On September 19, Jiuyi Police Station said it received the report on the 18th and officers were following up. The education bureau said police and the discipline inspection commission had stepped in. The school said the teacher was no longer there and had been transferred. The student was still attending class.
By Jin28 days ago in Education
We’re Raising the First Generation That Can’t Read Past 400 Words
The vanishing reader: why Gen Z’s test scores are falling In 2025, the OECD released its latest PISA results. Reading, mathematics, and science scores among 15-year-olds in most Western nations fell again. The decline started around 2012. After the pandemic, it sped up. Reading took the hardest hit. PISA tracks a group it calls rushed readers. These students skim questions, do not finish texts, and guess. In 2018, 6.6 percent of students fell into that group. By 2025, 11.4 percent. The number nearly doubled.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
The 23rd Floor: A Medical Student’s Death and the System With No Exit
Around 1 a.m. on September 15, 2026, at the Baiyun Campus of Southern Medical University, a 23-year-old student in the eight-year clinical medicine program fell from the 23rd floor of a dormitory building.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
The Relational Ontology of Personhood. AI-Generated.
Core Thesis Reality is intelligible through ordered relation. To identify anything as a determinate thing is to locate it within distinctions, boundaries, conditions, and modes of relation that make it the kind of thing it is. A thing is not understood merely by naming that it exists. It is understood by asking what it is, where it exists, when it exists, how it exists, what relations make that mode of existence possible, and whether its mode of being rises to the level of personhood.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Education
I Saved 147 Articles and Remembered Nothing. Then I Built a Cognitive System.
How to build a cognitive system when information never stops You have 147 articles saved to “Read Later.” Eight unnamed documents sit on your desktop. Your WeChat favorites are so full they will not load. At the end of the semester, you open CNKI. The search box is empty. Your mind is empty too. You have read things. You have no place to call them up from.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
AI Can Learn Everything You Do. Here’s What It Can’t Copy.
When others have learned everything you can do, what is left? In an interview room, three resumes sit on the table. HR asks the first candidate, “What was your biggest failure?”
By Jinabout a month ago in Education