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BEIJING Ultra Boost White Sale , Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- China's fresh plans to overhaul the gaokao system, which is seen by many students as a fair path forward in society, are a key part of its efforts to safeguard social fairness.
The measures rolled out on Thursday include discarding "extra" scores awarded for sporting or artistic achievement Ultra Boost Sale , such as playing a musical instrument, from 2015. The moves are responses to society's concerns.
Problems with "extra" scores are often at the center of recruitment scandals. Due to lack of supervision, the policy turned out to be tradable privileges for those who could afford them and led to corrupt admission procedures in many places Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Blue , generating public outcry.
Scrapping extra scores will help stem scandals during enrollment, providing examinees, especially the underprivileged Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Triple Black , a more fair environment.
The new rules, which will be the biggest change to the national college entrance exam since it was reintroduced in 1977, following the Cultural Revolution Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Black , will tip the scale more toward the underprivileged groups by expanding enrollment quotas for students from the less developed central, western parts of China.
A special arrangement requiring the nations' universities in the more developed east part to recruit certain number of examinees from the less developed regions benefited 200,000 people this year Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost Triple White , compared with the 25,000 people in 2008 when it was initiated.
The plan says the policy should be continued and the government will also help students from poorer provinces get into top universities.
This year, enrollment at top universities by students from rural areas grew by 11.4 percent Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost White , with roughly 50,000 students from 832 impoverished counties in 22 provinces gaining entrance to top universities.
The document, issued by the State Council Cheap Adidas Ultra Boost , also required educational authorities to provide assistance for physically disadvantaged examinees when they are attending the examination usually held in early June.
But gaokao reform will carry far more significance than promoting fairness in education, since it is linked to other aspects of society.
The reform is closely related to reforms on hukou, or household registration system Cheap Ultra Boost Blue , which could finally put an end to a system that has divided the nation into rural and urban populations since the 1950s. Currently, the children of some 200 million migrant workers have to attend gaokao in their parents' hometowns because of hukou restrictions.
Gaokao reform is also affected by an ongoing income distribution reform which seeks to close the gap between urban and rural residents, because there will never be a level playing field between urban and rural student due to income gap of their parents.
These interrelationships make gaokao reform a complicated one. And the government's plans to overhaul gaokao have demonstrated its determination to enhance the equity of the society.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A vintage radio resembled black box with a knob in the front allows audience to create their own vision of films in second.
This unique interactive video installation gathered a crowd of people trying and creating their own version of film on Saturday night at the 2016 IndieCade Festival at University of Southern California (USC) campus in Los Angeles.
Created by Zhan Chang and her team mates, a film related interactive game show named "700 to 730" allows the audience to create a montage within a story about a 7-year-old Chinese girl as she lives with her grandparents in a senior apartment.
The audience is invited to enter a theatre space, by tuning the knob of the wooden black box, people can alter the shot currently playing on the screen. Each audience interacts with the controller differently, thus creating a distinct montage experience unique to them. This device helps audience have different interpretations to a film.
Zhan is a Chinese nationality international student of School of Cinematic Arts at USC. Majored in Game and Interactive Media Design, Zhan designed a new kind of interactive game that combined with film, which is more like a "one person theater."
"As an introvert and heavy thinker who enjoys finding my own existence in the painfulness of constant reflection and exploration, I spent most of my college life exploring these notions and interacting with my inner voice. As a media artist, I was fascinated by various media technology and their potential to make art," said Zhan.
"Missing details in visual art or other representational 'shortcuts' require the user to fill in the missing information. Narrative techniques such as 'film montage' bridges the gap between unrelated images", she added.
"So everyone basically sees a different film depends on how they interact with it," Zhan told Xinhua.
"I think one of the big objectives for Zhan's project was to really redesign, redefine games and think about a kind of interactivity. It's not just about traditional games; this one is really a successful exploration for doing a kind of combination of games and movies and all kinds of new ideas," said Scott Fisher who is a Professor and Founding Chair of the Interactive Media Division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
IndieCade, as the biggest event dedicated to celebrating independent games in the US, was held on USC this year from this Thursday to Sunday. Now in its 9th year, over 200 latest innovative independent games were showcasing at the festival, including digital, VR, table, multi-media, physical games and more. All games were available for the attendees to play and review.
"There is an opportunity to bring people together and highlight games that otherwise people did not see, and to show that our games are not made by the same kind of people," Stephanie Barish, CEO and one of the founders of IndieCade, told Xinhua on Saturday, "if you walk around you will see very divers. |
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