Cleaning Up the Overseas Education Agencies

By Stan Abrams, China Hearsay. I’ve written before about some of the appalling practices of agencies that provide services to kids in China who wish to study abroad. With so many desperate students looking to get into the Ivy League, not to mention frantic parents in one-child families, hucksters, schemers and con artists are well represented in this industry. So what’s the best way to reform this sector? The latest approach doesn’t look right to me:
Foreign-owned agencies providing services for Chinese students hoping to study at universities overseas may soon be locked out of the Chinese market entirely as part of a government plan which will also strengthen supervision over domestic operators. (Global Times). More...