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Managing homework priority for ministry By ZOU SHUO | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-26 09:14 Share New notice also says schools should ensure two hours of exercise every day Local education authorities should include homework management in their school evaluations, the Ministry of Education said in a new notice as part of efforts to reduce the excessive academic burden on primary and middle school students. Schools should include homework design, grading and feedback in evaluations of teachers, and local education authorities should open hotline...

CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Apr 26, 2021 12:21 AM Coach Paulo from Portugal teaches a football class at a school in Shanghai. Photo: Yang Hui/GT The proportion of overweight and obese students has seen an annual decline from 2016 to 2020, said China's top education authority on Sunday. This downward trend is a result of the efforts from the State Council to improve the physical health of students in China by conducting a series of measures in schools, according to China's Ministry of Education during a press conference. Thanks to those measures, the overall physical health o...

CHINA / SOCIETY By Global Times Published: Apr 24, 2021 01:25 PM A student does the standing long jump during the final physical education tests at No.2 Middle School in Beijing. (Photo: Xinhua)Some 30 percent of Chinese college students failed to reach the "qualified" level of physical health as of 2020, showed a recent survey data from Ministry of Education. The percentage was much higher than that of other student groups, the survey found. In 2020, the ratios of students failing to pass the physical health level were 6.5 percent, 14.5 percent and 11.8 percent among pupils, middle-school...

New semester sees continued caution on campus reopenings As a new university semester begins this month in many parts of East and Southeast Asia, still affected by second and third waves of COVID-19, online courses are still common and there is evidence in several countries that students are opting out for the semester until physical classes resume. Vaccine roll-outs, which began in February in some countries in Asia, have so far had barely any impact on universities which are still implementing special measures for the coming semester and are likely to continue until at least June. These i...

Universities told to stagger opening dates By ZOU SHUO | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-18 08:43 Share CLOSE Spring semester to start online for some students due to epidemic risks The Ministry of Education has asked universities to stagger their spring semester opening dates and make preparations for online schooling. In a recent notice, the ministry said universities should make early plans for the spring semester after fully considering the COVID-19 epidemic situation and their teaching schedule. They should prepare enough equipment, c...