Education

Private tutoring is just the latest target in a long list of industry crackdowns in China. The change in policy is already having a profound effect on international education operations in China, and possibly on the future flow of students into education institutions abroad, writes Tim van Gardingen In mid-2021, the Chinese government put forward the ‘shuangjian’, or ‘double reduction’ policy. The policy aims to reduce the intense stress levels …

In this series we look at China-based entrepreneurs, the businesses they have developed and how they have coped with recent obstacles created by the pandemic. Media, entertainment and sports expert and author of “Bamboo Goalposts,” Rowan Simons recounts his China journey I first came to China in September 1987 to study Chinese as part of the undergraduate degree programme at Leeds University.  I chose Chinese partly because the course at …

Despite the ongoing pandemic, the number of Chinese students seeking higher education and post-graduate opportunities in the UK remains high. How can UK educational institutions support these students? As Covid-19 rapidly changes the market environment for mainland Chinese students entering UK higher education institutions in both China and the UK, understanding the new market environment and adapting to these changes has become more important than ever. It is important for …

Recent modifications to the laws governing the promotion of private education in China have been seen as a cause for concern by some in the industry, but the international education market in China remains strong On 14 May 2021, China issued a revision to the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Privately-run Schools. The modifications come into effect on …

Covid-19 has caused a huge drop in Chinese student applications to UK universities and an increasing number are looking for high quality international courses closer to home: Coventry University’s Dr David Pilsbury believes the UK can continue to benefit from the demand but says educational institutions must be smart in their approach Chinese students have become hugely important to UK universities over the last decade. In 2008, there were just …

Yonina Chan is the general manager and women’s division head of self-defence at Krav Maga Global in China. Here she tells Judith Mwai about her martial arts journey, the importance of self-defence – and running a business in a male-dominated industry. I got into this industry because of my husband. Martial arts was always his passion, he’d been training since he was a child and has a deep level of …

Chika Mora is the founder of inclusive events platform What’s Good Beijing. She has been in China for four years and knows the importance of finding a community away from home. She tells her story to Judith Mwai I originally came to Beijing back in 2017 on a teaching fellowship through Princeton in Asia. I had been an early childhood educator for about three years at that point and felt …

ENTRIES TO THE 2021 CHINA-SCOTLAND BUSINESS AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN. AS PART OF OUR COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT EVENT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMPANIES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP THIS YEAR.  DECCI WAS THE WINNER OF THE 2020 INNOVATION IN EDUCATION AWARD Professor Natascha Gentz, who is Assistant Principal (China), Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute for Scotland, picked up last year’s award for …

The UK’s Heriot-Watt University and Qingdao’s Ocean University of China have just launched a 4-year program for engineering students who will benefit from a state of the art new ‘National Robotarium’ in Edinburgh After receiving formal approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education in early 2020, Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University and the Ocean University of China have launched a new Joint Education Programme in Robotics. The four-year engineering programme marks a …

Each year, over fifteen million babies are born in China. This means the number of children in the early years bracket alone is the same as the entire the population of the United Kingdom. Another startling fact is the scale of trade already taking place between Europe and China – the trade between the two regions is greater than any other comparable trade flow; somewhat predictably Germany is on the …