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'Checkbook' schools' motivation for profit doesn't make the grade

By Neil Arora | China Daily | Updated: 2010-06-21 07:58

In May, I visited the Sino-Canada High School, a Chinese private boarding high school, to deliver a speech on Ivy League education.

China's international "passport" schools were once a luxury reserved for expatriates. Elite Chinese sent their children abroad for boarding school, but Western education was beyond reach for everyone else.

Recently, China's growing middle class has revolutionized the country's private educational system. Beyond Shunyi villas and Humvees, China's nouveau riche regard Western education for their "little emperors" as the latest status symbol.

'Checkbook' schools' motivation for profit doesn't make the grade

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