Tag: china
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China’s Anti-Privatisation and Anti-Global Education Policy Changes
China recently banned for-profit tutoring after school for 5-15 year olds. This means that private companies who charge parents for tutoring their children can no longer operate. This news is very relevant to both the sociology of education and the topic of globalisation. The ‘banning’ of foreign companies is part of a broader Chinese-strategy to…
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Huge increase in Chinese students studying at UK universities – a funny kind of ‘globalisation’
The U.K. now issues more than 100 000 student visas per year to Chinese students studying at British universities, with the numbers of Chinese students studying in the UK increasing at about 5% a year since at least 2013-14 Chinese students are by far the largest non-European student group living temporarily in the UK for…
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China – The World’s Biggest Tech Thief?
Chinese theft of intellectual property from other countries (mainly the US and those in the EU) represents the greatest transfer of wealth in history according to Keith B Alexander, former director of the US National Security Agency. intellectual property includes such things as patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and software, and China has a long…
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China’s Social Credit System: Big Data meets Big Brother
Most of us are used to having our daily activities constantly monitored and evaluated – what we buy, how much tax we pay (or not), what television programmes we watch, what websites we visit, where we go, how ‘active’ we are’, who our friends are and how we interact with them – such monitoring is…
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Is China’s Involvement in Africa a new form of Colonialism (i.e. neocolonialism)?
China’s development over the last three decades has depended heavily on its investment in Africa: it relies on a number of natural resources extracted from Africa, and is also one of the major leasers of land in Africa (which it uses to export crops back to China). In order to facilitate the extraction of natural…
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Assess the View that Poor Countries Will Always Remain Poor (20)
An essay plan including Modernisation and Dependency Theory, Neoliberalism and World System’s Theory, Bottom Billion and Neo-Modernisation theory, as well as contemporary trends such as war and conflict and environmental decline and case studies such as India, China, Afghanistan and Haiti. Introduction The view in the question is most closely associated with Dependency Theory which argued that poor countries…
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Are Chinese Teaching Methods Best? (Experiments in Education)
According to recent studies, China is home to one of the best education systems in the world, while Britain is trailing a long way behind. In some studies Chinese students are three years ahead of British students in reading and writing ability. China is well known for its ‘tough education’ methods, but can these methods…
