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China ADULT EDUCATION
Role in Modernization
Because only 4 percent of the nation's middle-school graduates
are admitted to universities, China has found it necessary to
develop other ways of meeting the demand for education. Adult
education has become increasingly important in helping China meet
its modernization goals. Adult, or "nonformal," education is an
alternative form of higher education that encompasses radio,
television, and correspondence universities, spare-time and
part-time universities, factory-run universities for staff and
workers, and county-run universities for peasants, many operating
primarily during students' off-work hours. These alternative forms
of education are economical. They seek to educate both the "delayed
generation"--those who lost educational opportunities during the
Cultural Revolution--and to raise the cultural, scientific, and
general education levels of workers on the job.
Data as of July 1987
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