BEIJING: A new patriot law has put private British schools in China under serious threat, The Guardian report said.
The new education law aims to integrate more Chinese nationalism into the curriculum, a move that has forced private international firms to close down a number of schools.
China’s new education law
On 1 January, China’s new patriotic education law will come into effect, further tightening the screws on classrooms in which part of the appeal is supposed to be Western-style teaching.
The law dictates that “all levels and types of school shall have patriotic education permeate the entire course of school education, doing a good job of ideology and political theory courses, and having patriotic education integrated into all subjects”.
International education brands facing challenges
After the Covid pandemic severely battered China’s appeal to foreign teachers, and the country’s government began a renewed push, even for private schools, to focus on patriotism and national security in the curriculum, internationally recognized brands are starting to face significant challenges.
In the past two years, , including Dulwich College International’s preschool in Shenzhen
