The main reasons for China's increasing demand for international education are that its labor force has become more international, the academic mobility of higher education level has increased rapidly, and English is increasingly dominant as a business language.
At the beginning, domestic international education (international schools) was mainly aimed at the market of children from foreign families. However, various local factors in China have been hindering the development of China people in this field. In fact, this field may be infinite. Before the international schools in China were opened to China children, the 465,438+00 international schools owned by China mainly served foreign children or children of transnational marriages whose parents were foreigners.
Some good international schools will have offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou. Every first-tier city and more second-tier cities have at least one international school of North American education system and one international school of Commonwealth education system, and the number is still growing. Some wealthy parents in China even get passports for their children from African and Caribbean countries, so that their children can qualify for international schools. This is why it is very common for China children to register Gambian or Senegalese passports in many famous international schools.
At present, international education in China has become one of the most expensive in the world. High-end international schools in Shanghai and Beijing charge $40,000 a year, which is equivalent to the tuition fees of top western universities. Nowadays, in order to enter this lucrative market, more and more private schools in China are offering international courses to students from China. Students in these schools can choose to quit the traditional courses in China and take English courses instead, so as to improve their chances of entering top western universities.
Of course, the fundamental reason for this move is that the domestic social environment has relaxed the strict regulations on international education. One of them is the recent relaxation of the regulations on Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. If these regulations are further relaxed, considering the demand of China students for overseas universities, this market will definitely grow further. Considering the unreserved investment of China parents in their children's education and the diversification and vigorous development of modern social education methods, international education in China is becoming the largest education market in the world.