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Forums > Living in Kunming > a ROUND 10 - Jeez
I thought I would start this 10th thread on soccer just to make a round number.
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Forums > Study > Yunnan Normal vs.Yunnan University
The purpose of separating the students is to allow for different learning styles. It is extremely successful.
What does happen is that OS and local students (perhaps not even studying language) are dormed together.
I think the role of any education institution should be to provide the best teaching possible, for the type of courses taught. The Japanese students found learning to write, and recognising words in Hanzi very easy. Other students were holding them back. Asian students who were used to rote learning performed well in class, others just held them back. Non-Asian students were more interested in using functional language, and the 'deaf and dumb' students just held them back. Separate teaching favoured both groups.
Forums > Study > Yunnan Normal vs.Yunnan University
Usually a 'Normal' university is a better choice. Normal Universities teach the teachers. And if the teachers have studied the 'Teaching Chinese to foriegners' courses, they will have learned some teaching theory and cultural differences.
The only uni that I am aware of the really has this sussed is in Shanghai. They don't teach European/American students with Asian students. They have separate programmes.
Forums > Study > who had bad experience in Yunnan Unversity ?
Most universities across China are crap when it comes to service. Management skills is not one of China's strengths.
They almost all use the 'Chinese teaching method', which is based on rote learning. This means that the teaching is crap as well.
I have never met a foreign student who was 'very happy' with any university or university Chinese course in my time in China.
On the flip side, some people are very happy with some of the Chinese training centres, others not.
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11 Furniture (Guangfu)
Swedish design ideas, kunming build quality. i have bought lots of ikea stuff in the past, the furniture at #11 are poor facsimiles of genuine item. Yes stuff is affordable, but poorly made and overpriced in my opinion. we took a good look around and looked closely at build quality and walked away.
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O'Reilly's Irish Pub (Beichen)
The Irish are not known for French anything, to be fair.
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Wonders Of Yunnan Travel
Let us know how you get on a give your new rating.
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Prague Café (Wenlin Jie)
It might be worth identifying which Prague venue you are reviewing.
When I first arrived in Kunming I did a tour of Wenlin Jie. I did't like the look of Prague.
More recently I have used Prague in Beichen a lot and I like it.
Ref the comment @nonsecond about being made sick from raw apple, WTF?
Nobel laureate Mo Yan's Yunnan connection
Posted byDidn't look like a jest.
Sounds like someone else is rewriting the past.
Chinese college freshmen increasingly unfit
Posted byI agree that it is not the fault of the university. The university is just where these out of shape kids end up.
There is a cultural issue and the parents are part of the problem. Most parents would let their kids study longer and sleep less, which is why laws were introduced to limit school hours.
The only way to effect uniform change is for sport to be mandatory in schools. If all kids spend a few hours less in the classroom there is still equity of learning hours in all schools. Some of the heat of GaoKao will be off, not increased.
The levels of fitness will vary, as kids from the countryside often do help on the farm, especially at harvest. Harvest is just before kids go off to university. However, the kids from the countryside are less likely to have had access to an education that will set them up for entry to China's elite universities in Beijing or Shanghai.
The study harder, get better grades, get to a better school, get better grades IS a virtuous circle. But only if you look at grades and forget the whole person. These kids may be top academically but may be physically, and emotionally damaged. This also impacts in their future families and this will affect society.
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
Posted by50% margin sounds like a lot, but actually it isn't for this type of industry. The margins on some of things you buy can be as high as 300%.
We think of low margins when we look at mass selling, dry grocery in the supermarkets for example. Unless a product is ONLY available in the supermarket, and supermarkets only compete with each other, we don't see low margins. A lot of products in the supermarkets (e.g. chips and soda) have margins of 30% plus).
Yunnan Shanquan to raise prices 50 percent
Posted byIt is only a matter of time before others follow.
To be honest, I was amazed that they could do it for 10rmb.
Green Lake to get wetter, brighter, noisier
Posted byIf the picture in the article is recent, it also shows another design problem with Chinese fountains.
All the pipework and lights are usually above the water. This is easier for maintenance, but in the 99% of the time when the fountain is not operating, it is an eyesore. Putting the pipes, etc. below the water is done in most other countries, that way people can enjoy the ambience of the lakes waters most of the time.