新规促使民办幼儿园小学面试额下降5成   2015-05-11

 

The number of formal interviews for kindergarten and primary slots in private schools in Shanghai dropped by half this year due to new city education policies designed to ease the parent frenzy about getting offspring into the best schools.

Education authorities said children sat an estimated 50,000 interviews over the weekend — compared to around 100,000 interviews last year — after authorities limited individual applications to only two schools and banned most schools from accepting applications from students outside their districts.

“The new policy forces parents to be more rational in selecting private schools and reduces our burden of handling applications,” said Chen Yong, deputy head of the Shanghai Foreign Language Middle School.

 

 

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