How does Intel think about public-private partnerships?
We try to base everything we do on education research and best practice. We make no claims to special knowledge. What we aim to do is to help the people who are in charge of education: governments, educators and boards of education. We show them our programmes and our technology and ask them how we can help them. We can also play a useful role in highlighting success stories and helping to create status and prestige in attaining educational goals. For example, we sponsor the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which celebrates success in science, math and technology. Millions of children round the world compete in our science agility fairs, 15m of them in China alone. The Chinese government recognises how important these children are to the country. In fact, each year the top 50 students at the fair are allowed to skip taking the university entrance examination. University entrance in China is highly competitive. To be exempt from the entrance examination is a powerful en
