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News on China’s Education Sector

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Language barrier

New signs that English has hit its peak in China?
Aug 27, 2021 (WiC 553)

Children at schools across China will be pleased that policymakers are asking head teachers to cut back on their homework. Mandatory study of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’, starting in primary school, might be less cause for celebration. But the ...

Why edtechs are pivoting from pupils to parents
Aug 20, 2021 (WiC 552)

In the TV show A Little Dilemma, a series about the downsides of tiger parenting that went viral in China in April (see WiC537), a father decides to attend tutoring classes every day after work so he can help to teach his fifth-grade ...

An education for investors

What is really behind Beijing’s internet sector crackdown?
Jul 30, 2021 (WiC 551)

Angela Merkel has visited China no fewer than 12 times since becoming German chancellor in 2005. Ties between the two nations’ economies are tight and the Chinese have sometimes seemed to taken lessons from the German experience, never more so ...

After school angst

Why China is reining in private sector education companies
Jun 25, 2021 (WiC 546)

New Oriental and TAL EducationOne of the most famous rock songs in the English language is Pink Floyd’s 1979 classic Another Brick in the Wall. “We don’t need no education,” it warns. “Teacher, leave them kids alone”. The ...

‘Chinese’ university stirs row in Budapest
Jun 18, 2021 (WiC 545)

Two years ago, Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orbán wanted rid of his country’s most prestigious international university because he disliked its founder, the financier George Soros. The Central European University, which had ...

Classroom interventions

Beijing to rein in off-campus education providers
Apr 1, 2021 (WiC 534)

Located in close proximity to some of the best schools in Beijing, the Huangzhuang area in Haidian district bustles with activity on any normal day. Home to at least 500 tutorial centres and crammers, it was known for its traffic congestion as a ...

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 ...

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