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The need to attract students with better entrance qualifications

Explore the efforts made by policy makers and teacher educators to attract students with better entrance qualifications. Analyze the impact of these strategies in the short-term versus the long-term. Consider factors that influence student supply and explore options for attracting students with better entry qualifications.

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The need to attract students with better entrance qualifications

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  1. The need to attract students with better entrance qualifications ZENG Xiaodong Associate Prof. and Vice-Dean of School of Edu., Beijing Normal University

  2. To attract students with better entrance qualifications • It is a will of policy makers and teacher educators; • In practices, some strategies have been accepted, e.g. free normal students project in China. • Question: Does the efforts lead to a satisfactory results? • Argument: The strategy maybe works in short-term, but it will lead to an unexpected results in long-term.

  3. An analysis framework • No choice can be released without any costs. By the analysis framework, we can consider our wills in a real world. • This model is given by Peter Dolton in ‘The Economic Cycle and Teacher Supply’

  4. An analysis framework

  5. Factors influence the supply • Relative earnings in teaching and other careers; • Non-pecuniary factors • However, money matters • And also a friendly social surroundings

  6. Options in attracting students with better entry qualifications • To allocate more resources in education; • To raise the pupil-teacher ratio • To build a friendly social surroundings • To give student teachers a good expectation for future by reforming teachers’ salary structure to enlarge the variation between start point salary and that for seniors with better professional records.

  7. Options in practice • Teachers are in an increasing critique; • The expenditure on primary and secondary education keep steady. • The ratio of teachers salary from start point to top is about 1.5-2.7

  8. Options in practice

  9. Options in practice

  10. Options I suggested • To communicate with the public to explain the dilemma we are in; • To reform the structure of teachers’ salary

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