Shanghai school inks fast-track deal with UCLA
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A Shanghai school has signed a deal with a top US university to allow students to take university courses and gain advance credit toward future degrees at US institutions while still in high school.
The deal is between the Soong Ching Ling School of China Welfare Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles under the university鈥檚 鈥淕lobal Classroom鈥 program.
The 10-year-old Shanghai-based school, named after Madame Soong Ching Ling, will open its high school division in September with 50 students.
Students will be selected based on their performance in the city鈥檚 united high school entrance examination and on quotas for each district, said Liu Wei, director of the high school division of Soong Ching Ling School.
It has joined hands with No. 2 High School of East China Normal University, one of the top schools in Shanghai, to develop its high school curriculum.
鈥淪tudents will also be able to take some optional credit-bearing courses delivered by the US university, including calculus, physics, chemistry, computer, macro and micro economics, American popular culture, national environment protection, introduction and methodology of sociology, as well as academic writing,鈥 said Liu. 鈥淢ore courses will be added in the future.鈥
鈥淲hen students graduate, they will receive not only their high school diplomas, but also the certificates from the UCLA showing the courses they have taken and the grades they achieved,鈥 she said. 鈥淎nd the academic credits of the courses are accepted by 97 percent of the American universities.鈥
Soong Ching Ling School is the second school in China for UCLA to join the 鈥淕lobal Classroom鈥 program.
Jinling High School in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu Province, joined in 2010 鈥 the first Chinese mainland school in the university鈥檚 program.
Liu said the program was expected to better connect high school teaching with university education and to cultivate academic rigor and critical thinking among students to improve their capability in research and creativity.
The school has employed Chung K. Law, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, as a consultant to provide suggestions on its cooperation with higher education institutions at home and abroad.
It also plans to invite more professors and scientists from leading universities, such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, the California Institute of Technology, Tsinghua and Fudan, to give lectures or organize short courses or summer camps for students.
It is expected to help them better understand disciplines and majors at universities and make earlier plans on their future study and career.
The school said it will also encourage qualified students to build connections with research teams in universities or carry out their own programs to improve research and creative competence.
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