Textbook switch draws investigation
By Xiao Wang |
September 4, 2010, Saturday
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THE Ministry of Education said it will investigate a sudden textbook change in east China's Anhui Province, which many charge is a money-making scheme by the local education authorities.
Students from five Anhui cities, including Fuyang, Chuzhou, Suzhou, Bangbu, and Huainan, got their new textbooks on the start of the school year on September 1. But to their surprise, their English textbooks were not their familiar ones.
Teachers said they were not notified of the change and had not been trained in using the new textbook. But an insider with local publishing houses said education officials could get 5 to 10 percent of the total cost to change the books.
A publisher could earn more than 70 million yuan (US$10.3 million) if it can sell one of its textbooks to a whole province, the anonymous source told China Central Television.
Students from five Anhui cities, including Fuyang, Chuzhou, Suzhou, Bangbu, and Huainan, got their new textbooks on the start of the school year on September 1. But to their surprise, their English textbooks were not their familiar ones.
Teachers said they were not notified of the change and had not been trained in using the new textbook. But an insider with local publishing houses said education officials could get 5 to 10 percent of the total cost to change the books.
A publisher could earn more than 70 million yuan (US$10.3 million) if it can sell one of its textbooks to a whole province, the anonymous source told China Central Television.
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