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News on China’s Education Sector

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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 ...

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 ...

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