The whole world has moved away from elite education in universities to meet the needs of mass education.

整个世界已经远离精英教育的大学，以满足大众教育的需要。

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In these countries, only the elite can afford an education for their children.

在这些国家里，只有上层人士才供得起子女上学。

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Opening up its elite education system to minorities, is an especially critical step.

向其敞开高端教育体系的大门，这是尤其重要的一步。

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In the 1990s, China began pouring money into research at around 100 of its 1, 800-odd higher-education institutions, hoping to create an elite tier of universities.

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But still the shadow of the past is in every conversation, from the indicted leader in The Hague, who is filling newspaper inches every other day - and there are an awful lot of newspapers in Liberia - to the young adults whose education was disrupted, to the nation's ruling elite.

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And in online education, the addition of elite higher institutions of learning to the mix has really been a game-changer.

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