China Education Laws
Walter Hutchens' Blog did an insightful and informative post today on a new China Ministry of Education opinion on foreign involvement in China education. In summation, the opinion stresses the need for China to maintain its domination of educational institutions. Hutchens perceptively notes as follows:
I suspect what often happens is that a foreign educator falls in love with China, becoming excited about the enormous potential here (a familiar story in other sectors, of course). Then, after a few rounds of friendly visits and talks, a deal is signed between the foreign intuition and a PRC university—without the foreign party ever having actually read (or being advised by somebody who has read) the relevant regulations.
Hutchens, who is a professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, also has a website, PRC Education Law, devoted exclusively to China's rules on foreign involvement in China's higher education.
