Thirteen students killed themselves last year - five more than in 2010 and seven more than in 2009, the Shanghai Education Commission said in the annual Primary and Secondary School Students Safety Report. more ›

In a bid to boost the capital's blood supplies, Beijing Municipal Health Bureau has announced that the amount of blood university students donate will affect their academic grades. Supplies have been critically low since last winter, partially due to public mistrust caused by the Guo Meimei scandal. more ›

Li Senlin (李森林) and his friend Yuan Hui (袁辉) have chosen to hike back home for the Spring Festival. The two university students plan to spend 8 days covering 400 kilometers from Suzhou, where their universities locate, to their hometown Yancheng. more ›

A popular American English teacher has been helped out with her medical bills by her students and former colleauges at Xiamen University, after she made notice her struggle with Parkinson was financially and mentally engraving on her too heavily. more ›

For the past three years a crack group of devoted students from Georgetown University have been brewing up a homework project for the ages, drawing attention from Congress and top officials in the Pentagon. Their assignment has turned heads due to its provocative conclusion that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times bigger than previous well-established estimates of arms-control experts. more ›

A high school student in Shangrao, Jiangxi province, recently jumped off the building to show a girl his love after he was rejected by her. more ›

China has donated school buses to Macedonia, and these buses were handed over to the south-eastern European country yesterday. more ›

Koinkidink, much? Fortunately, it's not as serious as the one that just happened in Gansu, and nobody died. Shanghai Daily with the details: more ›

Students from China at U.S. colleges and universities surged 23 percent this year to 157,558, accounting for more than a fifth of all international scholars in the country. more ›

The soccer team of an elementary school in Beijing was demolished by its Russian counterpart in a friendly match 0:15, according to Beijing Times journalist Zhang Bin. Zhang said over Sina Weibo yesterday: more ›

Local trash rock duo Pairs is cooking up something pretty cool for December. They've booked up Yuyintang on the afternoon of Sunday, Dec 18, and they now want to find two or three local student bands to come play a show with them. So all you students out there who just know your band is awesome but can't find the opportunity to show anybody, here's your chance! more ›

Start a technology company over the course of three days. We rent work space for an entire weekend, recruit 40 students with a wide range of backgrounds, cater food and drinks, invite top-notch entrepreneurs and investors, pick the best idea for a software startup during the Friday brainstorming session, and release a minimal prototype by Sunday night. The goal is to build enough momentum among a network of motivated people to sustain the company beyond the weekend.

Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming will study in the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University from October, his agent Zhang Mingji said here on Monday. Zhang said that Yao has not decided his major but the university will choose special teachers and give the super star lessons on a one-to-one basis.

Via Danwei: A Chinese student interviewed on Phoenix TV says he was "overjoyed" at the news of 9/11 because it was "caused by American hegemony". But he's still applying to make a trip to the US of A, and hopes he can stay there. Hopefully someone from the US Embassy is reading this. Dude needs to get his visa revoked. more ›

Look Hu's excited! After his visit to Chicago schools during his state visit to America in January, Hu Jintao invited 20 students from Walter Payton College Prep High School to visit his residence at Zhongnanhai in Beijing. more ›

"A popular global organization run by college students for overseas internships is having trouble winning recognition from Shanghai-based universities that cite safety concerns and involvement in commercial activities. Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University refuse to recognize AIESEC, an international non-governmental organization that provides its members with what it says are more meaningful alternatives to the university-run overseas internship programs. The two Shanghai universities prevent their students from conducting any AIESEC activities on campus. Nevertheless, more than 500 college students in Shanghai have applied for AIESEC's overseas internships this summer in hopes of working, living or volunteering abroad." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Not sure how we missed this, but Feichang Fresh, supposedly China's hottest laowai boyband, has this catchy little love song for Beijing that went pretty big after airing on CCTV in May. The boyband was formed by a group of foreign students at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Check out the English translation of the song here. Also check out another of their songs here.
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"EIGHT students told to quit a Beijing music school due to poor academic performances sought to commit suicide together, it was reported yesterday. One student from the Chinese Music Conservatory Middle School is being treated in the Beijing Chaoyang Hospital for attempted suicide; three have returned home; and four remain missing, the Beijing Times reported. The 10th-graders at the school's vocal department were told to leave before the end of August because they had failed more than one-third of their required courses. The 16-year-olds bought sleeping pills and decided to die together, according to the girl, who has not been named, receiving hospital treatment, the report said." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

A Swedish student's study abroad semester at Fudan University has come to an abrupt halt after authorities revoked his residence permit for attempting to organise a "freedom flash mob" that was to have taken place on July 1, the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. more ›

"Nearly 60 percent of primary and middle school students in Shanghai are nearsighted, Shanghai Evening Post reported on Wednesday. Among senior high students, 86 percent are shortsighted, and the numbers are 70 percent and 38 percent among students at junior high and elementary schools, the paper said, citing a survey conducted by the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010. Excessive schoolwork and frequent contact with electronic screens were the main causes for the high incidence of myopia among teenagers, the report said." [China Daily] more ›

Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai may have replaced prime-time television dramas with communist propaganda and assembled thousands of people to sing red songs with him, but here at the local primary school in Duping Village of Chongqing's Wushan Town, it's Michael Jackson the kids are dancing to. Every morning 10am, students at Duping Primary School will assemble in neat rows on their school field, set amid the verdant hills of rural Chongqing, and move to the King of Pop's Dangerous as part of their daily calisthenics routine. Here's the scene on a recent morning:
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Every day at 10am, instead of the normal calisthenics routine, 700 Chongqing grade schoolers dance to Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" for their morning exercises. Neat. more ›

Last week Peking University sparked heated debate when it announced a new reeducation'consultation' program targeting, among troubled students, those "with radical thoughts." The university of course claims to be operating in the interest of the students, but the policy has resulted in an storm of criticism online and off, many drawing the all-too-obvious comparisons to Orwellian thought police and the Cultural Revolution. Yesterday, China Daily reported that university officials have now "delayed its introduction to allow more time for further discussion." more ›

Featured on the homepage of Youku today is this video of a teacher performing push-ups on knives that has gained 130,000 views in just 18 hours. Kids, do not try this at home.
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Sir James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, has warned that Chinese students are spying on British universities to steal technological secrets, and have even planted software bugs that continue relaying the information to China long after they have graduated. more ›

Over 20,000 students braved freezing temperatures, wind, and rain to attend a job fair at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan on Sunday, February 27. Many lined up for hours outside the gymnasium on campus waiting for their chance to distribute resumes and talk with recruiters inside. The more than 200 companies and institutions who took part will provide nearly 10,000 positions. more ›

Previously open only to students from Hong Kong and Taiwan, this year, ten students from Chongqing will be selected to participate in a month-long White House internship program. It's not entirely clear what the program is, as the English-language press hasn't exactly picked this one up yet. more ›

Above: Art students crammed into an exhibition hall in Jinan on February 14 for the start of the 2011 yikao season. [Note: yikao is short for yishu gaokao, and is the national college entrance examinations for art students.] more ›