China’s Ministry of Education will create a “policy that discourages study abroad at an early age”.
While the world was under the gloom of the Epidemic last year, the number of Chinese high school students preparing to study abroad was on the rise, with the Chinese Ministry of Education stating in January that it would create “an institutional policy that discourages study abroad at an early age,” while in 2016 a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Education mentioned that sending minors abroad was discouraged because the children were too young to They are too young to live and study independently.
Hong Kong‘s South China Morning Post reported that China’s Ministry of Education released data showing that more than 700,000 Chinese studied abroad in 2019, up more than 6 percent from the previous year.
Ming Ming, 12, is one of the growing number of young Chinese students. Born in Shanghai, he has attended international schools since elementary school. Ming’s Parents, both Chinese citizens, believe that sending their child to the United States for a high school education is less stressful than if he had passed the Chinese school entrance exams to advance to higher education.
But the pressure to advance is just one of the reasons Chinese parents decide to send their children abroad to study. Jia Jia, a Chinese national whose son is transferring to Adelaide, Australia, in 2019 for Year 7 (the equivalent of National 1), said her son used to attend a school in Beijing‘s Haidian district, which is known for its high quality of teaching. He loves swimming and playing soccer, but he can’t enjoy them because he usually has too much homework.
According to a report jointly released by CITIC Bank and the Hurun Report last November, more than 90 percent of China’s high net worth individuals said they would not cancel their children’s plans to study abroad, but might postpone them.
Xiong Bingqi, an education expert, said another reason why Chinese children are sent abroad for schooling is the deep-rooted hukou issue, which prevents some children from settling in the Chinese cities where they live and study, and from taking the local Chinese and college entrance exams, so they choose to go abroad.
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