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News on China’s Education Sector

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Crouching tigers

Why Chinese parents are stressed about schooling
Jan 15, 2021 (WiC 524)

The old (and rather sexist) saying claims that behind every successful man is a woman. But in China, behind every successful child is an even harder working parent. For instance, for those who want to secure their offspring a coveted spot in ...

A plunge in US visas for Chinese students
Nov 13, 2020 (WiC 518)

Down 99%. That was the astounding drop in F-1 visas issued to Chinese students between April and September of this year, as compared to the same period in 2019. The vertiginous decline in part reflects the worsening political tensions between the ...

Teaching abroad

First state-backed Chinese school opens in Dubai
Sep 11, 2020 (WiC 510)

China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative is most commonly associated with infrastructure and trade. But it is also manifested in the growing Chinese communities in some of the world’s more international cities. Dubai is now home to at ...

The need for nuance

Cambridge student discusses difficulties Chinese face at UK universities
Sep 4, 2020 (WiC 509)

In a recent article in The Times, Heidi He talked about the status of Chinese students at British universities in the Covid-19 era. She told the UK newspaper that students like her were facing a “vicious circle”. What did she ...

Cambridge Diary

The job hunt
Jul 17, 2020 (WiC 504)

In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, some of my friends are anxious about their prospects in the job market. The depiction of Generation Z (those born between 1995 and 2015) as stressed, depressed and exam-obsessed was examined in The Economist ...

Disney shutters its tutoring business in China
Jul 3, 2020 (WiC 502)

Between 2012 to 2016, the market for English tutoring in China doubled to Rmb85 billion ($12 billion), says Frost & Sullivan, a market research firm. It is set to swell to Rmb240 billion in 2021. However, interest in studying in traditional ...

Cambridge Diary

Poetic licence
Jun 12, 2020 (WiC 499)

“England is Black; China is Red” is the title of my master’s thesis. June will be dedicated to writing up 20,000 words on how, through the construction of poetry, Chinese teens can express their “linguistic identity”. Identity is ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Chinese students mull UK virus response
Apr 24, 2020 (WiC 492)

In the past five weeks I’ve seen only two Chinese people in person. Cambridge is eerily empty, and that is more starkly obvious given its tiny size. I’m lucky enough to be quarantined in my college’s extensive graduate accommodation, ...

With the gaokao delayed, online education brands are still busy
Apr 17, 2020 (WiC 491)

On the last day of March China’s Ministry of Education announced that for only the second time in over 40 years the annual college entrance exams – the gaokao – would be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Since 1979 the ...

Nursing a grievance

New row as children of medical staff get extra points for high school
Mar 5, 2020 (WiC 485)

Parents are stressed. Schools are closed and no one knows when important end-of-year exams will take place. Adding to the unsettled mood: late last month several provincial governments announced a change to the system that allocates places to ...

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