System puts college scholarship recipients under nose

An annual evaluation system has been effective in ensuring the quality of Chinese government scholarship recipients, according to an educational official.

The annual evaluation mainly reviews the recipients’ test results, class attendance and daily performances at their Chinese universities in the previous academic year.

Since the evaluation system was introduced and implemented in 2002, a total of 1,171 recipients of the national-level government issued to students from overseas have been deprived of the qualification to be funded by the scholarship, said Cao Shihai, deputy Secretary-General of China Scholarship Council.

The CSC is an organization under the Ministry of Education to issue and administer the scholarship.

Cao said most of the deprivation resulted from the students’ bad attitudes towards their studies, or violence in their Chinese universities’ regulations and rules.

“Through measures including the evaluation system, we are achieving a better management of the scholarship program and its recipients, and the quality of the recipients is improving,” he added.

Cao made the remarks at the 17th China Annual Conference for International Education, which kicked off in Beijing on Thursday.

The conference, organized by China Education Association for International Exchange and supported by the education ministry, aims at promoting other countries’ knowledge about China’s education and boosting their educational cooperation and exchanges with China.

In recent years, the number of Chinese government scholarship recipients has increased greatly, as has the total number of students coming to study in China from other countries.

In 2011, almost 26,000 students from across the world came to study under the support of the government scholarship, taking up 8.8 percent of all international students in China that year. The number of recipients grew to more than 40,000 students in 2015, accounting for 10 percent of the total number last year.