China's higher education system is marked by significant progress during the recent years while still baffled by some long-standing The knotty and most widely discussed one is the transformation from a test-oriented education pattern to a more practical and experience-focused one that places more emphasis on cultivation of students' creativity and self-culture of personal The high unemployment rates of graduates suggests an effective and radical reform of the old way of Innovative thoughts and measures are in urgent need to be introduced to the near-rigid system as a way to foster new thoughts and impel the training of practical
There will be a much wider sample of Chinese pupils taking part in the next round of the international Pisa Shanghai took part in the most recent tests and had the highest But there were claims that the city was not representative of schools in other parts of CThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) which runs the tests has announced that Beijing， Jiangsu and Guangdong will take part， alongside SThe Pisa tests， taken every three years by 15-year-olds， have become one of the most influential international benchmarks for education Earlier this year， England's exam regulator announced that the Pisa tests would be used as a benchmark for maintaining standards in GCSEThe Department for Education in England has also said it will recruit 60 maths teachers from Shanghai and bring them over to provide master classes in teaching maths in ECity statesThe most recent results showed that Asian school systems were at the top of the rankings in reading， maths and But Pisa tests include regional education systems as well as results for entire Shanghai was the single most successful education system， but there were complaints that the standards in an individual city should not be measured against the outcomes of a diverse national system， such as the United States or G
