Education Revolution: China doubles its no of universities & will produce 195 million college graduates by 2020

Zhang Xiaoping's mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.
But Zhang, 20, is part of a new generation of Chinese taking advantage of a national effort to produce college graduates in numbers the world has never seen before.
A pony-tailed junior at a new university in southern China, Zhang has a major in English. But her unofficial minor is American pop culture, which she absorbs by watching episodes of television shows like "The Vampire Diaries" and "America's Next Top Model" on the Internet.
It is all part of her highly specific ambition: to work someday for a Chinese automaker and provide the cultural insights and English fluency the company needs to supply the next generation of fuel-efficient taxis that New York City plans to choose in 2021. Read more...