Time – Jessie Jiang
“The exodus of the country’s brightest high school students has renewed discussions in the media about the ongoing problem of higher-education reform….While 9.3 million Chinese students took the college-entrance exam in 2011, close to 1 million high school graduates did not, and among them, some 200,000 chose to go to foreign universities instead. Today over 100,000 Chinese high school graduates attend college in the U.S. each fall, and this year at least 17 of the top 100 mainland students chose to go to the University of Hong Kong.” (more)