Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images
Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images
Education
People & Culture /  Social Welfare

China plans to put children off studying abroad as more pupils head overseas at younger ages

  • The Ministry of Education said it would build ‘a mechanism to discourage minors from studying abroad’ without elaborating on the plan
  • More than 700,000 Chinese residents moved abroad for study in 2019, a rise of more than 6 per cent from the previous year

Topic |   Education
Mandy Zuo
Mandy Zuo in Shanghai

Updated: 9:36am, 17 Feb, 2021

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Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images
Parents are increasingly sending their children abroad for education to avoid the fierce competition for school places. Photo: Getty Images
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