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Like almost everything else in China today, rural education is in the midst of fundamental change. While progress has been made, increasing numbers of parents are migrating to cities to find work, often leaving their school age children in the villages. At the same time, China is consolidating rural primary schools into large, more economically efficient units, located even further from student households. Taken together, the need for child supervision and the impracticality of kids traveling long distance to attend school has led to the dramatic growth of boarding schools for children as young as six.

Scott Douglas Rozelle and Lothar Reh are both scientists but their disciplines are as different as chalk and cheese - the only thing in common is their long association with China. Yesterday, they had another thing in common when they became winners of the Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology.