The Central Council for Education has made public a basic plan for the promotion of education. It comprises 20 goals for the coming 10 years and 75 policy measures for the next five years. The goals include enhancing the quality of public education, establishing education and research centers of the highest level, internationalizing universities and improving the budget to achieve an education level that compares favorably with North American and European countries.
While the goals are clearly set forth, the council neglected to include a numerical target for increasing the education budget, and it failed to state how many more teachers will be needed to achieve the goals and how much it will cost to hire those teachers.
The new curricula are based on the council's January recommendations, which called for an increase in the number of class hours and an increase in course content — a move away from the "more relaxed" education policy that tried to discourage crammer learning and encourage autonomous thinking.