HONG KONG: The country’s Education Ministry warned that unlicensed tutoring services in China could be subject to fines of up to 100,000 yuan($ 13, 715.54 ) in an effort to curtail the lucrative after-school sector and promote a” good environment” for learning.
The Ministry of Education announced on state-run CCTV on Tuesday( Sep 12 ), marking the most recent action taken by authorities to reform China’s education system and lessen the academic pressure on students.
In order to reduce pressure on children and increase the nation’s birth level by lowering household costs, Beijing imposed strict rules in 2021 to restrain the booming US$ 120 billion personal tutoring business.
But, according to the ministry, issues like unlicensed after-school tutoring and the issue of individual institutions” taking money and running apart” still exist.
It stated that” there is an immediate need to increase the legal structure for after-school education.”
Fresh couples’ plans to either get married or have children are being impacted by China’s slowing business, which is struggling with severely reduced consumer confidence, compounding the socioeconomic problems of one of the fastest-aging cultures in the world.
Fresh Chinese have cited the high cost of education as a major reason for their lack of desire to have children.