edtech Archives - Collective Responsibility

Mar 20

Building More Schools Is Not The Solution

By The Collective in Business & Strategy, Issues 0

Public awareness on the need to address the plight of China’s left-behind children was reignited earlier this year following the high-profile story of Ice-Boy, one of 62 million children left-behind children living in rural China, and attending rural schools, without parental care. Among those who spoke out on the need for targeted support for rural children was Jack Ma, founder of China’s tech…

Jul 07

Edtech Opportunity: Educating China’s Migrant Students

By The Collective in Issues 0

What used to be an array of migrant housing is now razed to the ground. Rubble and weeds are the only traces of the previously-existing migrant community. According to the local government, the area will be used for development, so it has been slowly removing this community over the past few years. Most of the people who lived here before were forced to move elsewhere, and plots of land lay empty…