For eight-year-old Hanhan, a Chinese girl in Shandong province, summer break is not a time for rest and fun, but just another series of learning activities.
Hanhan is one of thousands of Chinese children who have had to embrace various summer courses, whether they like it or not. About one in three enrolled students were taking more than three courses this summer, according to the report. But for Primary Three pupil Yuan Yuan, it was not his decision. Yuan said he was forced to take Chinese and maths courses, which he was not interested in.Observers said China’s booming extracurricular tutoring market reflected the anxiety of parents placed under immense pressure by the education system, while research has shown it also risks increasing the gap between rich and poor in society.
According to official data, 9.4 million students took the gaokao in 2017, with 7 million of them admitted to colleges or universities. But the percentage of applicants who got a place at one of the country’s top universities varied from 9.48 per cent to 30.5 per cent among provinces, with the lowest rates in Henan and Shanxi provinces, at less than 10 per cent.
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