http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Yojana Sharma. China’s education ministry this week announced plans to completely scrap English as a subject in the national university entrance examinations or gaokao, as part of a new university testing and student recruitment system to be in place by 2020. Some provinces will pilot the changes from 2014. The plan to allow English exams to be run by ‘social organisations’ outside the gaokao system goes beyond a recently announced move in Beijing to reduce the weighting of English in the gaokao from 2016. Read more...