Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deng's observation that "if a huge nation with 1 billion people could boost its education, its tremendous superiority in human resources would never be matched by any other country." The government plans to introduce gradually nine years of compulsory education throughout all of China. Until now, such basic education has not been mandatory, and was available only in the cities. Under the new plan, primary and secondary schooling would be controlled not by the Ministry of Education in Peking but by local + authorities, and private schools would be encouraged. Under a reorganization of the university system, students would...
During the past year, the University has also written to all portfolio companies with operations in South Africa urging them to oppose the influx control laws, which are central to the apartheid system. The replies of these companies reveal that most are now taking basic steps in this area, either by aiding their black employees to overcome the obstacles that apartheid raises against their choice of where to live and work, by supporting organizations working against the influx control laws, or by meeting directly with officials of the South African government to urge repeal of the laws. We continue...
...premise is irresistible. Screenwriter Terry Johnson has adapted his London stage play, combines star-struck childhood fantasy with that most basic, and base, of human impulses--reckless voyeurism. Yoking together the competing myths of his protagonists, he unleashes them on unsuspecting viewers in a bizarre kind of Battle of the Network Stars...
...what of the reason for reform in the first place, the emphasis on the basic sciences now widely considered undue...
...Professor Brandt remarks, the "tremendous hope that the answers to social medicine could be worked out at the highest levels of biochemical research" has fostered the emphasis on basic science in pre-medical and medical education. It is precisely this belief that may be changing