Chinese Students and Middle Class

Chinese parents: Many Chinese parents, especially those from the middle class, seem to believe that knowing English and studying foreign academia is some kind of magic ticket to a successful future for their child, according to Global Times China. Indeed, there were 524,000 Chinese students studying abroad in 2015, an increase of 14 percent year-on-year, statistics released by the Ministry of Education show. This price didn't even include tuition; it was just an "entrance fee." That mother felt that the exorbitant cost was well-worth the opportunity to have her child educated in English by foreign teachers. During the 2014-2015 academic year, there were 300,000 Chinese students studying in the US, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, making China the leading country of origin for international students in America. Boasting "non-Chinese" curriculum designed to get local students into overseas universities, middle-class and wealthy Chinese parents are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of yuan per semester, along with so-called entrance fees, that these elite schools extort. Within the Chinese mainland, a rapidly rising number of local families are preferring to send their children to international kindergartens and high schools here, who only just last year started opening their gilded doors to Chinese. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.