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chinese M averick's Plan for private colleges thanks to Cai Guangtian,thousands of city are burning the idnight oil.
the 65-year-old shanghai enrtepreneur is the founder and president of the Qian Jin College of Continuing Education.In school buildings scattered around shanghai,some 16,000 oart-time students attend classes at Cai's private school,started five years ago with just $30 in captial and 300 part-time students.Cai's success is a keading example of the private initiative being encoraged under the regime of Deng XiaoPing and represents quite a change sent packing twice by Communist anthouriries for his "rightist" ways .

His school still is not recognized as a regular college and cannot grant diplomas because china'scommunist goverment does not formally allow private colleges.But Cai --- a 65-year-old who bursts with the energy of the old-time shanghai entrepreneurs whose flair for making things happen typified the Chinese city in the years before communist came to power in 1949 ---plans to change all that
Education Conference member
He is member of the National cimmittee of the 2,000 member Chinese People's political Consultative Conference, a body that advises the government on policy. At a meeting last month in Beijing ,Cai said china needed private colleges to povide educational opportuntities for students who currently cannot get into the country's inadequate higher education system.
although the wisdom of his sussgestion is conceded by many exepert on china's education. it would be present a sharp departure from the current policy of government and communist Party control of education.
"Private colleges must be established to develop higher education in china. many groups in and the conference agreed with me and said so publicly ," cai said recently during a visit to Francisso . the conference voted ask the goverment to permit private colleges.
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