IN PREPARATION FOR the summer Olympics in 2008, the authorities in Beijing, the host city and China’s capital, launched a campaign to teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign ...

Proposals to downgrade English from being a compulsory subject in Chinese schools have stirred heated debate in China over recent days, with rural parents appearing more supportive of the idea than ...

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China’s red-hot enthusiasm for international schools is showing no signs of cooling off anytime soon. In 1999, just 86 schools taught international curricula, by 2019 there were over 800. That number ...

WHEN CHINA made English a compulsory primary-school subject in 2001, the same year it joined the World Trade Organisation, it was taken as a sign that the once-insular country was opening up. The ...

Only 7% of the Chinese population speaks English, according to data. The inclusion of English in the school curriculum has been debated for years in the country. Having a translation app is essential ...

This summer, Chinese state media announced that of the 400,000 foreign citizens working in China as English language teachers in 2017, an estimated two-thirds were doing so illegally. English is big ...

In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas. Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He ...

China has one of the largest education systems in the world, boasting over 3000 universities as of 2022, a HE sector only comparable to the size of the US system. In 2021, student enrolment data from ...

Amap, one of China’s leading navigation platforms, has officially launched its first English-language map targeting overseas users. This groundbreaking development aims to make navigating China more ...