BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Here are the highlights of China's education news from the past week:

-- Chinese vice premier stresses enhancing educational oversight

Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan on Tuesday stressed reforming the country's educational supervision and guidance system in a bid to promote high-quality education.

"Educational supervision and guidance is an important instrument for the implementation of educational laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies," said Sun while attending a national conference on deepening the reform of China's educational supervision and guidance system.

Sun ordered efforts to continue reforming the management system, including strengthening higher-level government supervision over the performance of governments at lower levels in carrying out their educational responsibilities to ensure that the Party and the state's education policies take root.

-- Senior official urges better training on foreign-related legal affairs

A senior official has called for greater efforts to improve the training of legal talent capable of handling foreign-related legal affairs to better serve the work of the Party and the State.

Wang Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the China Law Society, made the remarks during an inspection tour to four Beijing-based universities renowned for legal education.

-- Most Chinese youths willing to teach parents to use gadgets: survey

About 90 percent of young people showed the willingness to teach their parents to use electronic products in a survey recently conducted by the China Youth Daily.

Among the 2,006 respondents, only 28.8 percent said their parents are skilled gadget users, and 2.7 percent admitted that their parents cannot use such devices at all. Enditem

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