Students say goodbye to teacher Esther Snader at Anqing Normal University in Anhui province as she leaves to return to the United States. CHEN DONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Esther Snader, a retired foreign teacher, said it was hard to leave the Chinese university she had taught at for more than 19 years, but that leaving …
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A Beijing preschool employee has been given a suspended prison sentence for buying fake documents to hire unqualified foreign teachers, Legal Evening News reported on Monday. The defendant, surnamed Xia, obtained forged degree certificates and supporting documents for two foreigners — from Serbia and Ukraine — early last year to allow them to work at …
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Photo: SUST-Ulster Cooperation Program The mainland’s education system should focus more on building students’ personalities and soft skills and less on their exam results, experts from China and Britain say. The calls follow remarks by President Xi Jinping at an annual meeting of the Confucius Institute in Britain that the two countries should learn …
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When Noli Castillano Apachicha, 38, a Filipino English teacher in Beijing, heard the new policy that non-native English speakers may not work as an English teacher in Beijing, he was upset. Since October 2016, a new work permit policy has been enforced by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), which classifies foreign workers …
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When the new school year starts in autumn, some 10,000 teachers will come out of retirement in China and return to the classroom, but in a new and mostly unfamiliar setting – underfunded rural schools. Beijing is sending “outstanding” retired or retiring educators aged 65 or under to the remote areas under its “Silver Age …
(2016-06-21) Twenty years ago, many English-speaking expats in China applied for teaching jobs because work was easy to come by. Routine inspection of qualifications was almost nonexistent and all most people needed were their mother tongue and an engaging character. An British teacher teaches Chinese children how to learn English through paintings. Many students in …
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