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Science 31 August 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5535, pp. 1615 - 1616
DOI: 10.1126/science.293.5535.1615
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China Broadens Training for Elite Students

Ding Yimin

BEIJING--China's prestigious Beijing University will launch a pilot class next month to test the idea that a liberal arts education is more beneficial to students than a narrowly focused course of study. The radical approach runs counter to a half-century of specialization in Chinese higher education. If successful, it will be extended to all students--a giant step beyond concurrent reforms at some of the country's leading universities that focus only on the cream of the crop (see sidebar).

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