The Bonfire Programme
In order to improve the quality of teachers in remote areas in mainland China, the Fund has set up the Bonfire Programme to provide conditional education grants to students in the normal college (teachers' college) to assist them to complete their degrees. These students have to undertake to return to remote areas as teachers for at least two years upon graduation. Being such, teachers with higher academic qualifications will be returning to the remote areas to improve the local education standards.
To start with, the Bonfire Programme
was introduced to Qian Nam Normal College for Nationalities, Quizhou Province
in 2005. The Fund has commited to provide education grants amounts to RMB300,000
to 30 students in this college to improve academic qualifications of teachers
in remote areas in China.
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