Education officials suspend study tours
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July 9, 2013, Tuesday
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OVERSEAS study tours have been suspended by education officials in Quzhou following the deaths of two students in Saturday's plane crash in San Francisco.
The education bureau in the city in east China's Zhejiang Province has told schools and related institutions to suspend all summer camps and study tours.
The two teenage girls who died in the crash were both students at the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou.
The school has been organizing study tours since 2006, with parents paying about 30,000 yuan (US$4,887) to send their children to the United States.
Nearly 200,000 Chinese students studied in the US in 2011-2012, more than any other country and accounting for more than a quarter of international student population in the US.
The number is expected to grow, and Chinese families hoping to have their children attend US colleges see summer trips as another way to gain an edge in applications and to help with the cultural and linguistic acclimation expected of the students once they are abroad.
The popularity of such programs has grown significantly over the past five years, according to Alex Abrahams, general manager of Shanghai-based Blue Sky Study, which consults families who want to send students abroad.
An American education has become desirable with many Chinese parents, who believe it can better prepare their children in a globalized economy.
Yan Jiaqi, a Beijing-based education consultant, said the summer tours mix having fun with preparing for college.
"Those kids sooner or later will go to US schools, and the trip is an opportunity for them to get to know the US and help them choose a university later," he said.
The education bureau in the city in east China's Zhejiang Province has told schools and related institutions to suspend all summer camps and study tours.
The two teenage girls who died in the crash were both students at the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou.
The school has been organizing study tours since 2006, with parents paying about 30,000 yuan (US$4,887) to send their children to the United States.
Nearly 200,000 Chinese students studied in the US in 2011-2012, more than any other country and accounting for more than a quarter of international student population in the US.
The number is expected to grow, and Chinese families hoping to have their children attend US colleges see summer trips as another way to gain an edge in applications and to help with the cultural and linguistic acclimation expected of the students once they are abroad.
The popularity of such programs has grown significantly over the past five years, according to Alex Abrahams, general manager of Shanghai-based Blue Sky Study, which consults families who want to send students abroad.
An American education has become desirable with many Chinese parents, who believe it can better prepare their children in a globalized economy.
Yan Jiaqi, a Beijing-based education consultant, said the summer tours mix having fun with preparing for college.
"Those kids sooner or later will go to US schools, and the trip is an opportunity for them to get to know the US and help them choose a university later," he said.
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