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a survey this year which found that in Shanghai 30% of high school pupils and 50% of middle-school students wanted to change their nationality...

Shanghai writer/blogger Megan Shank retells her experience of having a local Shanghai taxi driver confess that she would be his last fare, as he was going to kill himself that night.

For anyone that's had the tragedy of suicide touch their lives, or really just for anyone, this is a must read.

It didn't work with adults, so the China's Education Ministry thinks it would be better to start with children when trying to promote "ethnic unity". The new classes will run all the way through school, with high school students getting up to 14 hours a year to help them "recognise the superiority of our government and Communist Party's ethnic policies,". Very harmonious.

“The cycle of poverty can only be broken through education. Poor peasant farmers struggle to pay the annual school fees for their children to go to primary school but very, very few can afford the higher costs of sending the children to Junior Middle School or beyond. We know that if the children can learn to be comfortable with foreign visitors and speak some English they will be able to get work. Volunteer English Teachers...

Chinese families across the country are able to send their children to school tuition-free in the nine-year compulsory education period as of Monday. From this fall semester, about 28.21 million urban students in primary schools and in junior high schools joined rural students to benefit from the plan, according to the Ministry of Education. The students still must pay for textbooks and uniforms.

Pictures of a Chinese schoolgirl caught on camera giving a blowjob to schoolboy posted on BBS forums in China. Chinese netizens offer some funny comments.

This is the Jiutang School in Fukeng district, Zhongba town, Zijin county, Heyuan city, Guangdong province. It has seen 60 years of storms but the students are still learning under such appalling conditions. During the rainy season each year, the teachers and students live in fear. These conditions have existed for several decades.

China's prestigious Tsinghua University's website was hacked to show the school president saying Chinese universities are pouring shit into students' minds. Includes comments from many Chinese netizens.

Sixty-five elementary school students at the Niuchang Primary School in Hohhot in northern China reported that they were feeling dizzy after waking up. Investigation showed that the dizziness was caused by carbon monoxide after smoke from a dormitory boiler spread into their rooms, state media reported December 25.