After Beijing’s ban on tutoring industry, Chinese parents turn to black market to find teachers
- China banned after school private tutoring earlier this year, amid concern too much pressure was being placed on children and parents
- The competition to achieve top marks and get into the right university is intense in China where the right education is seen as paramount to success in life
At the end of September, the Ministry of Education reiterated its policy banning small-scale private tutoring, which has been disguised under different names.
“We will strengthen the coordination with other authorities and use various means to detect and raid this illicit activity that goes with names like one-on-one teaching, high-end domestic helper service, crowdfunding private tutoring, and live-in teaching,” an official from the ministry’s after-school training supervision department said at a press conference.
The official, whose name was not released in the report, said the government is aware that black market tutoring has appeared since China launched a sweeping crackdown against tutoring institutions in July.
“This will directly affect the implementation of the central authorities’ policy. It will also lower the public’s satisfaction about this reform,” he said. “Therefore our attitude is clear that we will firmly punish those hidden rule-breaching activities.”