Chinese government to employ 7,000 retired teachers to work in rural areas
The Chinese government plans to hire 7,000 retired teachers to work in compulsory education schools in the country’s rural areas this year, said a statement jointly released by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance.
This recruitment drive is part of an action plan launched by the government in 2018 to enhance the quality of rural education by employing retired educators to teach in rural areas.
According to the statement, the drive will be aimed mainly at retired principals, teaching research staff and experienced teachers aged up to 65.
Teaching professionals recruited under the plan will work at county, town and village schools located in places that had been lifted out of poverty, underdeveloped ethnic counties, border regions and other areas that lack sufficient education resources.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
