“No other country has such a strong tutoring culture (such as China),” said Claudia Wang, partner of Oliver Wyman Consulting and head of Asian education in Shanghai consulting firm.
As population growth is at its slowest level in decades, Chinese authorities lifted the second-child birth restriction earlier this year and hope to increase parents’ incentives to have more children.
The Beijing Municipal Government announced last week that teachers must rotate schools every six years to prevent top talent from being concentrated in some schools. Education officials reiterated on Monday that schools are prohibited from offering “priority” courses for gifted students.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Education also banned first- and second-grade students from writing homework and restricted junior high school students’ homework to no more than 1.5 hours per night.
However, many Chinese parents still view education as a means of social mobility.
this gaokao It is one of the few ways for poor rural students to obtain better educational opportunities and employment prospects in top universities.
