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Hedgehog Review, 2003, pp. 5-6). A fast evolution is undergoing from free
problem is that the massive, increasing cost of study is taking a heavy toll
State Council, 2014), this makes it harder for the citizens to avoid the
education. This essay will further explain why the incrementing cost in
poorer individuals and gave way to illegal profiting from school fees,
and reforming education funding, that were carried out to counter this
impacts such as financial problem for poorer families and illegal profiting
afford to pay their childs education fees, often appear in the press. She
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also added that the increasing cost of study has affected these poor
families financially to pay for education fees. This clearly shows how the
affordability, especially for the poorer individuals. Another reason why the
way for illegal profiting from the school fees to occur. Due to
their school prices should conform to the market, this shows that
between social classes and urban-rural districts (Yang, 2006, pp. 61). The
widening of the gap may cause social friction, which may lead to outbreak
of riots and eventually, all members of society lose out (Pettinger, 2011).
There are solutions that were undertaken to counter this issue, such as
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Council, 2017) and these scholarships are available for those students
who meet the criteria of each scholarship, including the fact that they are
scholarships could offer to pay for the students registration fee, tuition
fee, fee for basic learning materials and even buy Comprehensive Medical
Thus, this promotes equality for the less fortunate to attain knowledge.
individuals, it narrows down the social economic gap between the social
classes. However, it still does not help to improve the social gap between
urban-rural communities (Yang, 2006, pp. 61) as not all rural communities
are offered with scholarships and are not readily available for schools in
every province.
where the investment for education costs are dealt by local governments,
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lesser investment (Litao, 2010, pp 59). However, some studies from the
decreased faster but the reform did not produce any instant result in
secondary schools, which shows that this solution has helped to a certain
extent in narrowing the social economic gap but did not fully solve the
the problem.
would help to reduce the massive cost of education for these individuals
subsidise school fees from lower to middle income families; thus, these
fees to increase in China and it has become a crucial problem due to its
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negative impacts, such as illegal profiting from the school fees and
financial burden for poorer individuals. This issue also impacted Chinas
availability for all students. Thus, modifying Chinas social mobility. There
the best way to deal with this issue because not only does it narrows the
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