Schools exhibiting at this month's China International Education Exhibition Tour, Beijing, said they believed more Chinese were studying abroad at a younger age. Around 15% of exhibitors were high schools this year, up from 5.6% in 2011. Families are choosing the US, but also Canada, the UK and Australia. Schools exhibiting at this month's China International Education Exhibition Tour, Beijing, said they believed more Chinese were studying abroad at a younger age.
Fifty of the 400 exhibitors were schools this year, around 15%. This is up from 5.6% in 2011. Most hailed from Australia, but there was also a Canadian and American presence.
"We have focused on bringing secondary schools to the exhibition this year"
"We've noticed a trend of more Chinese students wanting to study abroad, in preparatory schools, and even younger," Eliza Chui, of the Australian consulate-general in Shanghai, told
China Daily.
"We have focused on bringing secondary schools to the exhibition this year."
Bob Lajoie, international education manager at the Coquitlam School District, British Columbia, said his district had seen a "surge". 500 Chinese students now study at its 66 schools.
Wendy Buxton of Immanuel College, a private high school in South Australia, said high schools helped them adapt.
"If they want to stay after their graduation it will be easier for them to find their identities in Australia," she said.
Chinese are thought to increasingly view high schools as a pathway to foreign universities. Other drivers include the fierce competition for places at China's top universities, parental aversion the Chinese education system, and fear of political instability.
In total, 76,800 Chinese high school-age students studied abroad in 2011. Most choose the US where 23,795 study according to federal figures – up from just 65 in 2006.
Britain has also seen enrolments triple at its boarding schools in four years, according to McKinsey. In a recent
blog, Gordon Orr, a director based in Shanghai said the trend would continue in 2013.
“It has long been common knowledge that many of the offspring of China’s leaders study outside the country. More and more upwardly mobile people are now following suit."
Schools exhibiting at this month’s China International Education Exhibition Tour, Beijing, said they believed more Chinese were studying abroad at a younger age.
Fifty of the 400 exhibitors were schools this year, around 15%. This is up from 5.6% in 2011. Most hailed from Australia, but there was also a Canadian and American presence.
“We have focused on bringing secondary schools to the exhibition this year”
“We’ve noticed a trend of more Chinese students wanting to study abroad, in preparatory schools, and even younger,” Eliza Chui, of the Australian consulate-general in Shanghai, told China Daily.
“We have focused on bringing secondary schools to the exhibition this year.”
Bob Lajoie, international education manager at the Coquitlam School District, British Columbia, said his district had seen a “surge”. 500 Chinese students now study at its 66 schools.
Wendy Buxton of Immanuel College, a private high school in South Australia, said high schools helped them adapt.
“If they want to stay after their graduation it will be easier for them to find their identities in Australia,” she said.
Chinese are thought to increasingly view high schools as a pathway to foreign universities. Other drivers include the fierce competition for places at China’s top universities, parental aversion the Chinese education system, and fear of political instability.
In total, 76,800 Chinese high school-age students studied abroad in 2011. Most choose the US where 23,795 study according to federal figures – up from just 65 in 2006.
Britain has also seen enrolments triple at its boarding schools in four years, according to McKinsey. In a recent blog, Gordon Orr, a director based in Shanghai said the trend would continue in 2013.
“It has long been common knowledge that many of the offspring of China’s leaders study outside the country. More and more upwardly mobile people are now following suit.”
