China’s education ministry is pushing for the country’s National College Entrance Exam, known as the gaokao, to be accepted for admission by more overseas universities. The move comes as the weighting ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — At the stroke of noon on a recent Saturday outside a high school in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, a crowd of parents stood waiting for their children to emerge ...

The University of Birmingham has announced it will accept the ‘Gaokao’ exam for “high-flying” Chinese students wishing to join its undergraduate courses in 2019 in place of A-levels or the ...

When I took the gaokao — China’s notoriously difficult college entrance exam — in 1998, it was a nerve-wracking experience. I barely slept in the days leading up to it and both my parents took three ...