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What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard wor...k have created an expectation that studying is how to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs for a few, and debt for all. Weijun Chen's film, set in Wuhan in central China, looks at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of private college tutor Wang Zehziang, high school graduate and would-be university student Wang Pan, and graduate jobseeker Wan Chao.
What does an education get you? Education is the only way out of poverty, as it has been sold to the Chinese population since ancient times. China's economic boom and talk of the merits of hard wor...k have created an expectation that studying is how to escape poverty. Yet it seems the system only leads to jobs for a few, and debt for all. Weijun Chen's film, set in Wuhan in central China, looks at the realities of Chinese education through the lives of private college tutor Wang Zehziang, high school graduate and would-be university student Wang Pan, and graduate jobseeker Wan Chao.
| Series: | Why poverty? |
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| Episode | 8 |
| First transmission date: | 05-12-2012 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC4 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:00 |
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| Director: | Weijun Chen |
| Producer: | Weijun Chen |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pblv4 OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/international-development/ou-on-the-bbc-why-poverty |
| Production number: | FKIO501D |
| Videofinder number: | 83355 |
| Available to public: | no |
