labor - Private and public education in crisis

The Economist has an excellent piece on the current crisis in China's higher education. Starting point is the recent violent riot at the campus of the Shenda business school at the Zhengzhou University earlier this summer.
It analyses the changes in a much more thorough way than in any of the other media I'm scanning. Disguised private education is taking up a much higher percentage of the money families have, even though income went up:

Since the early 1990s, China's embrace of market forces has upturned the provision of public services. Although most schools and colleges are still funded by the government, they now operate much more like businesses. They are allowed to generate extra revenue and so improve their facilities and attract more students. And, crucially, they have been permitted to raise fees—often in a disguised form to evade nominal government-imposed limits. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says that households now spend more on education than anything else, even though town- and city-dwellers are allowed to have only one child. In 2004 fees provided 18% of the revenues of schools and colleges, up from 4.4% in 1991.