Record numbers of children from china are enrolling in British public schools as the communist power’s nouneau riche seek the cachet of a traditional English education.
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The Independent Schools Information Service(Isis) estimates that there are now almost 1,300 pupils from mainland China attending public schools in Britain,with the 525 new arrivals in 2000 outstripping those from more wealthy countries such as [url=http://www.monclergoose.com/product_list.aspx?pcid=411]versace purse[/url] (403),and the Middle East(185).
“There is probebly hardly a major independent boarding school now that does not have students from the Chinese mainland,”said Paul High,a senior consultant at Isis International,the overseas arm of the public school’s representative body.
Most children are the new entreneurial class.Until now,they have mainly coem from commercial centres such as Shanghai and Guangdong,a southern province close to the Hong Kong border.However,High will be travelling to Harbin in northern China to promote British schools at an education fair.
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“I regularly get calls from businessment in Britain who tell me that they have a partner in China who wants to send his son or daughter to a school in Britain,”he said.
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Zhang’s 11-year-old aughter Rulan,or Nancy as she is known,will be entering the main high school at Malvern girls’ college Worcestershire,having already attended the preparatory school for a year.
“I studied English in China,but the other girls are really helpful if there’s a word that I don’t understand,”said Nancy.She lives with her mother and a younger sister,who is also hoping to enrol at Malvern,and is one of two pupils from mainland China at [url=http://www.monclergoose.com/product_list.aspx?pcid=482]canada goose downcoat[/url],where fees are &5,725 a term for boarders and &3,800 for day pupils.
At Roedean in Brighton there are six Chinese pupils,five of whom are studying for A-levels.Patricia Metham,the headmistress,said the number of applicants from mainland China had trebled in the past three years.
Liang Chengcheng,a 19-year-old from Shenzhen,a special economic zone in southern southern China,perfectly illustrates the point.She is about to enter her final year at Roedean and is taking A-levels in mathematics,physics and business studies.“I expect to get As in the first two,but I’m less sure about business studies,”she said.
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[QUOTE=fskman;33485322]America is not as good as tiffany jewelry.[/QUOTE]
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