Post by Prometheus on Jul 24, 2021 18:40:34 GMT
As noted in whole or in part elsewhere... maybe... I can't recall... China is looking to push foreign teachers out it seems. There have been all sorts of new policies aimed at the education sector lately. here are a few:
No foreigner or foreign owned entity may own a school or training center: This one is vague (as most Chinese laws are) because it doesn't really address (that I am aware of) percentages of ownership in a JV. This includes "international schools."
No foreigner may hold any position of sole authority over any curricula: there must be a Chinese national (government approved) chairing all departments and the school as a whole. This includes "international schools."
The use of "foreign materials" in public and private schools has been banned. Training centers have seen a number of training book series summarily banned and I'm hearing that more are on their way to the trash heap.
Summer and Winter vacation programs CANNOT focus on a single subject nor can they pre-teach the following semester's material. About 30 to 50 training centers in my city alone were shut down for the summer for these reasons. The loss of revenue may cause these "temporary" closures to be permanent.
Training centers may no longer lock customers into any contract for a period of longer than 3 months or 1/4 of the total program length.
This one hit the other day:
No training center may teach English to any child under the age of 6. This would effectively wipe out half the earning potential of most English training centers. What's not clear is how it will affect privately owned kindergartens.
Online education providers are being slammed with a host of new regulations that are sure to shut them down or at least push the out of the Chinese market.
This is all happening because the Chinese government wants to limit how much money parents spend so that they will choose to have more children... which will keep the government from having to increase social welfare spending.
This is all happening because the Chinese government wants to limit how much money parents spend so that they will choose to have more children... which will keep the government from having to increase social welfare spending.
Many Chinese are upset about this as they feel that the outrageous per m^2 cost of an apartment would be a better target, but since the government and real estate developers are spooning like a couple of 16-year-olds after losing their virginity, that ain't gonna happen.
If my school does end up getting shut down, I'll be on a short leash, so I'm thinking of Serbia as a relocation destination.
I've mentioned the need to relocate in the past and nothing ever came of it, but I've got a different feeling about this: mostly because my life has been filled with moments of having $500 in the bank and the car suddenly needing $2,000 worth of repair and I can't shake the feeling that now that I have some money saved up for my daughter's wedding that the rug is about to get pulled out from under me.
Maybe everything will turn out OK, but right now, I'm losing sleep.
Literally
It's 2:30 in the morning, I have classes in less than 8 hours and I'm posting this because I can't sleep.
I'm also due to pay the next 6 months rent shortly and I'm not even sure I'll be here - getting money back from a Chinese person reminds one of the proverbial "blood and stone."
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