China has seen the most dramatic expansion of educational opportunity in history. Fifteen years ago, about 1.5% of Chinese between 18-22 were in school; now it’s almost 20%. At least 150,000 Chinese students are going overseas every year for education, and domestic MBA programs have graduated more than 80,000 students. Private universities have been formed all over the country, and publicly supported universities have for-profit divisions.

With this sort of explosion in the number and types of institutions, students have to be a little confused. Add to this new landscape an exploding educational service industry-language schools, test-preparation courses, educational placement counselors-and you have a dizzying universe of educational choice without any navigational tools.

At 6xue.info, we believe the best guides are the people who have already been there. We put together a software platform and an organizational structure, and Chinese students and professionals all over the world are filling it with useful comment on the schools they’ve attended, the countries they’ve lived in, the degrees they’ve obtained, and what they would do over again if they had the chance.

6xue.info gives Chinese students an independent, non-partisan source of information about higher education around the world. We want to help Chinese studdents: they now have money, and they can choose among the best universities in the world. But going overseas is new to most people and comes along with a lot of anxiety about how to prepare, where to go, how to get in, whether it’s all worth while. Because educational opportunity has expanded so much so fast, lots of Chinese students get advice from people who make money by sending students overseas. In contrast, we want to give students straight information that they can really use.

6xue.info is perpetually a work in progress, because the information comes from our readers around the world. When we post information (whether a new student review or an article from an “expert”) we will encourage discussion and debate. Education is a very personal thing - one size doesn’t fit all. We want to make it easy for our members to find high-quality advice that makes sense for them.

The coolest students and graduates around the world are 6xue.info coordinators and contributors. If you are ready to join a committed team that’s trying to do the right thing. then , contact info@6xue.info. We pay. Chinese rates but still, it’s money.

Tom: Refugee from Silicon Valley, 12 years doing Internet start-ups, some of which are now billion-dollar companies (really-CNET, for example). His mother is proud: child actor, Yale undergrad, Harvard Business School, McKinsey. His business executive positions include Vice President of NetObjects (now part of IBM), EVP of CNET, and CEO of There.com. He was also the COO/CTO of“24 Hours in Cyberspace,” a cool photojournalistic documentary back in 1996. He’s spent a total of four years in China and speaks and reads Chinese. Originally a geek from New Hampshire.

Anne: Seldom admits to having been in China before most of the team members were born. Came first in 1985, married and went back to the US, returned in 1993 and has been in Beijing since. Has spent half her career doing lobbying and industry analysis and the other half founding companies. Represented two industry associations, the U.S.-China Business Council and the U.S. Information Technology Office, both in Beijing. Founded a publishing company that publishes City Weekend magazine and Zanglingyang travel books. Founded Clarity Data Systems, a software company that made direct-marketing/customer relationship management systems. Speaks and reads Chinese. No hobbies but watches a lot of movies with her kids. U.S.-style Dongbei ren from Connecticut.

Core developer and Council Member for the Opensource CMS XOOPS Project, founder and webmaster for the Xoops China ( online community ). Main developer and project manager for key Xoops modules, including the Xoops Bulletin Board System, xLanguage, Digest, Calendar, and others. Has also developed a variety of simulation and control software packages for large-scale industrial systems. BS, MS and PhD from Tsinghua University in chemical engineering, three years of post-doctoral work in process engineering in Montreal. From the intellectually subtle province that produced Confucius.

Former controller for international companies including Beijing Kraft Foods, Clarity Data Systems, and International SOS China Ltd. Accounting degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology and People’s University. Knows China and U.S. GAAP and all the tax and social insurance stuff. Soup-to-nuts administration, including personnel.

Cao, a native of Hunan, began winning prizes for his graphic design when he was a mere teen. Some of his recent honors comes from the 2005 Kan Tai-keung National University Competition, the 2005 Ningbo National Design Competition, the 2004 Platinum Print Design Competition, and lots more. He graduated in 2005 from the Hunan Industrial Arts and Design Institute and loves hot food.

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Kurt is a Beijing boy who spent three years in Great Britain and graduated from the University of Luton in Britain with a major in Business Administrative Marketing. He likes a freewheeling lifestyle and is fond of everything beautiful in life, especially music. His personal philosophy is to enjoy life at the right time and n the right place, with the right mates—maybe even strangers. The overseas life experience is one of Kurt’s most favorite memories, and he is ready to share every piece of the fun with you.

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Ada graduated from the Capital University of Economics and Business with a major in Business and Trade. She spent a year working in Turkey and another year at Beijing Foreign Languages University for one year. She spent a year in Shanghai seeking her fortune but returned to Beijing in 2005, when she joined as 6xue.info’s first Chinese employee. She's curious about everything new. She likes the beauty and purity of nature and hopes to travel the word. She's nice to everybody and loves to help anyone who needs it. Her motto is "seize the moment." Whatever problem you have, just go to Ada!

Blue Bamboo Ventures (BBV) is 6xue.info’s parent company. BBV forms and accelerates businesses in China's media and technology industries. primarily by cataloging information about products and services. BBV is pro-consumer, providing them with information critical to evaluating the environmental effects, health and safety considerations, performance, and value-for-price of various product and service categories.

How did you guess? Our system is built on top of Xoops, an open-source platform that’s object-oriented and made from the deceptively simple PHP. We support China’s Xoops software group.Check out the Xoops community:http://www.xoops.org

Send an email to info@6xue.info, because we are all really obsessive about reading mail so somebody will read it. Telephone works too: (8610) 58859701,-02, -03, -04.