Extending Care for Disabled Children

正SPECIAL education gives meaning to the lives of children with disabilities whose conditions are beyond help from medical science.Physically or mentally deprived as they are,children with special needs,unlike their able-bodied peers who can study and progress unaided,depend on special education to survive and make the most of their faculties.Of the conditions that render a person disabled,even that     

How to Guide Children——Family Education Consultancies Take Off

WITH increasing pressure for Chinese children to get into good high schools, home tutors have become very popular in many Chinese cities. Over the past two years, however, another form of ＂family education＂ has arisen, targeting parents rather than children.These ＂family education consultants＂ are responsible for helping parents solve their children＇s problems as they grow up.     

New Dreams,New Troubles Haunt New-Wave Migrants

They are rural according to their residential registration books, but in the real world, they are city birds. Many of the new generation of migrant workers joined their parents at an early age; others were simply born in the cities where their parents labored for a better life. Having grown up in their adoptive urban home,     

Is Peking Opera to Be Seen Or Heard？

IF, one evening at the theater, you are seated at a table, rather than in a row of seats, and sipping tea and eating peanuts as your neighbors stamp their feet and shout their approval, the chances are you are watching a Peking Opera performance. Nowadays several Beijing theaters show a daily pastiche of extracts from famous operas, featuring acrobatics and martial arts (but not too much singing) that cater to the tastes of Western tourists. Chinese Opera lovers disdain such performances because they lack artistic authenticity. They regard the Westerners that so enjoy such "military" operas as slow-witted children ignorant of the degree of artistry with which Peking Opera is imbued. Theatergoers with a true appreciation of this extraordi-     

Diversified Experiences At Ascott's Properties Worldwide

<正>Guests staying at The Ascott Ltd.'s Ascott,Citadines and Somerset serviced residences worldwide will get to enjoy a myriad of delightful experiences offered through its Ascott Lifestyle program beginning April 1.These specially handpicked experiences,ranging from the cultural to the gastronomical,from local attractions to wellness,will enable guests to explore the cities they are living in and continue to enjoy the activities they are familiar with while being away from home.For a sampling of the Ascott Lifestyle experiences,guests can view a collection of featured experiences from the Ascott Lifestyle website(www.the-ascott.com/ascottlifestyle)even before their arrival at the serviced residence.The featured experiences will be refreshed regularly so that guests can make the most of their experiences in the city,whether they are staying at Ascott for business or pleasure.To find out more or have an Ascott Lifestyle     

Land of Opportunity:Americans Follow Their Dreams to China

TWENTY years ago,Americans were a rare sight in China,especially outside metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai. If somebody happened to meet one,he or she usually proved to be a senior managerial employee,technician or English teacher. They were usually here because they had been dispatched by their home headquarters rather than out of their own wish to discover China,and though they were usually given generous financial compensation,they often lived in the poor conditions of China at that time.     

China's “New Generation” of Olympic Champions

THERE is nothing shy about China's new generation of Olympic sportsmen.Born almost exclusively in the 1980s,the athletically gifted young men and women who will represent China at the 2008 Games are far more willing to open up to the public than their predecessors,and like 20-somethings everywhere,they are at home on the Internet,managing their own fan blogs and communicating with their peers online.Their uninhibited self-expression has attracted the attention of commercial advertisers,and occasionally some less welcome interest,and they are celebrated as China's"new generation"in sports circles,ready to take center stage in August before a world audience.     

WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Mental Health of the Old Recently, an 88-year-old lady in Zhejiang Province sued her son for not allowing her to move to an old age home. She believes her son and daughter-in-law are expressing their filial responsibilities, but she just wants to have more privacy. Nowadays, while children do offer their parents a life with more materialistic support, they are too busy to care about the old people's psychological needs or respect their will. This can lead     

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OPINION Migrant Kids Get a Raw Deal The Beijing Municipal Education Commission recently announced that migrant children should go back to their rural home- towns for senior high school education. However there are dire consequences to this decision.If the children choose not to go back to the countryside,either they have to study in Beijing where they presently live as unregistered students, with no right to participate in the college entrance exam,or they have     

LETTERS

正Now in my 60s,I am starting to think seriously about where I’m going to spend my later years.I do not personally oppose living in a nursing home when I’m too old to take care of myself.My children treat me very well and I enjoy the time we spend together.But they have lives of their own,while I have a life of my own.I don’t have the heart to expect them to look after me,as they are already occupied with     

Family Circle

Foster care is conducive to giving orphaned children a better life For most children living in orphanages, having a real home is just a pipe dream. Although they may be well looked after, receive a good education and proper nutrition, the love and care that come from being part of a real family just aren't there.     

China＇s ＂New Generation＂ of Olympic Champions

THERE is nothing shy about China＇s new generation of Olympic sportsmen. Born almost exclusively in the 1980s, the athletically gifted young men and women who will represent China at the 2008 Games are far more willing to open up to the public than their predecessors, and like 20-somethings everywhere, they are at home on the Internet, managing their own fan blogs and communicating with their peers online.Their uninhibited self-expression has attracted the attention of commercial advertisers, and occasionally some less welcome interest, and they are celebrated as China＇s ＂new generation＂ in sports circles, ready to take center stage in August before a world audience.     

Home,not Asylum

Respecting the old and cherishing the young is one of the Chinese traditional virtues, and China has worked hard to build a large number of homes for the elderly. In some areas, however, the old people are reluctant to move into local gerocomium because they think that these places are like an asylum, or even a prison for the aged, and they feel nothing home there. However, the home for the elderly we visited in August 2010, was a totally different story.     

Village Elementary School Affecting the United Nations

"Left-behind children" are children who have one parent or both parents working in another city while the children stay in the village. These children usually live with either one of their parents, relatives or family friends. Research shows that there are over 58 million left-behind children in China; 57.2 percent of them have one parent working in another city, 42.8 percent of the children have both parents working in another city, 79.7 percent are raised by their grandparents, 13 percent of the left-behind children are raised by relatives or friends, 7.3 percent of these children are raised without a guardian or information about them is uncertain. As the Chinese economy prospers, working-age adults from villages increasingly choose to work in cities with left-behind children a special population that requires special attention in Chinese village education. Social researchers warn that left-behind children are not only a problem for families but a social problem. The education program in Linzi Elementary School, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province has raised awareness of left-behind children’s education. The school’s "Left-behind Children ’33433’ Linzi Model" is now popular in the country and followed by many elementary schools. This school is now a major experimental elementary school under the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) caring for left-behind children.     

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OPINION Costly Education As a rule, the more families spend on education, the more developed a society is. In developed countries, families usually spend less than 10 percent of their incomes on children's education, but this can be as high as 32.6 percent for rural Chinese families, according to a recent survey. Parents' traditional high expectations of their children are partly responsible for this. Despite the staggering costs of education, par-     

Willthe House for Pension Scheme Succeed?

正China is now home to more than 200 million people above the age of60.Generally,the elderly are either supported by their children or live on pensions.In recent years,a new idea for senior care,the house for pension scheme,has become a hot topic.This option was officially proposed by the Central Government in September 2013 and comes at a time     

A Slovenian Special Education Specialist Popularizes Drama In Education in Chengdu

How to let students in their adolescence disclose the pressures they confront? How to make hearing-impaired children better communicate with their family members and pals? Veronika Gaber Korbar, Director of the Taka Tuka Club in Ljubljana of Slovenia, Chengdu’s friendship city, brought a completely new approach to education: Drama In Education (DIE) to the students of Grade 8 of the Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of the Chengdu Special Education School.     

Current Rural Medical Service in China

In contrast to the great changes that have taken place in the Chinese economy, China is confronting with a rural health crisis. Statistics shows that about 40-60% of the people in rural areas fail to see a doctor when they get sick simply because they cannot afford it and 70% of the people impoverished due to diseases. In the western part of the country, 60-80% of the patient farmers have to die at home. Part of the Chinese farmers has     

PARENTS'''' DILEMMA

Families are beginning to wonder whether their young children are paying too high a price to achieve superior test scores Ye Youxue has encountered problems in educating his only son, Ye Zi, since the boy entered primary school last September. "I adopted a hands-off approach to my son's preschool education, without forcing him to attend prep classes of Chinese or English like many of his peers," said Ye, adding that he had not expected that policy to backfire. In Zi's class, most children had attended classes, including Pinyin (the phonetic system for transcribing Chinese characters) and reading, while they were in kindergarten to prepare them for work in primary school. He didn't.     

Migrants＇ Children Lonely No More

AS millions of rural migrant workers labor to elevate China up into an economic powerhouse, their children are left at home to fight loneliness and other growing pains. Now the local gov- ernment and international organizations are reaching out to help them. The country has 120 million surplus rural laborers who shift from farmland to urban areas to do menial jobs in a bid to earn money for their children's edu- cation and living quality improvement. The latest figures released by Chinese Wo…