Life of the Russian-speaking diaspora in China - girlnextdoor. School education in China How Russian children study in China

According to the All-China Population Census, the number of Russian citizens of China is 15.6 thousand people. However, almost all of them are descendants of mixed marriages. Most of them live in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and Inner Mongolia.

The first wave of Russian emigrants to the Middle Kingdom appeared in 1897 during the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The peak of migration occurred in the twenties of the last century, when parts of the White Guard troops fled to China. A new flow began in the 1930s - this time, peasants fleeing Soviet collectivization flocked to China.

After Stalin ordered the deportation of the Chinese from the USSR in 1932, quite a lot of “half-breeds” appeared in China (one of the parents is Russian, the other is Chinese). At the end of the 1930s, Russian schools and Orthodox churches operated in East Turkestan and Inner Mongolia. Massive Slavic immigration had a noticeable cultural impact on the population of East Turkestan and Inner Mongolia. “Spoon”, “fork”, “newspaper”, “car”, “driver” and many other words have become firmly established in the language of local residents.

After the quarrel between Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, immigrants from Russia and their children were persistently offered to return to their historical homeland, which most of them did.

Now the largest Russian community remains in the city of Gulja, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Several dozen “purebred” Slavs still live here. The city even has a small Russian quarter: several families live behind the massive fence of the Orthodox cemetery, where about two years ago the Chinese authorities restored the church with their own money.

When you find yourself in the “Russian quarter” of Gulja, you get the impression that you have found yourself in Russia of the distant past. “Fragments of the past”, “mammoths of history” - such epithets constantly came to mind when I observed the life of the Russian community in China.

The “peculiarity” of my new acquaintances was manifested not only in the old-fashioned turn of phrase of their speech, the literary nature of the sayings they cited (“to survive from bread to kvass,” they say instead of the modern “from bread to water”), but also in the manner of behaving, in a pronounced self-esteem, successfully complemented by goodwill and a sincere desire to help any person they meet along the way. At lunch, “Chinese Russians” always drink kvass and eat warm bread baked in their own oven. The accordion here still remains a favorite musical instrument, to which folk songs already forgotten in the “historical homeland” are performed in the evenings.

Local Russians successfully integrated into Chinese society: they opened bakeries, shops, hotels, and small repair shops. By the way, Russian bread is very popular in Gulja, and many townspeople are ready to travel several kilometers to buy this “Russian miracle”.

There is also a Russian school in Gulja, where our language is taught as a foreign language. “Russian students make up about 10 percent of the school. Nobody forbids us to conduct training entirely in Russian, but we ourselves decided to abandon this, since in this case it would be very difficult for our graduates to enter Chinese universities,” says Nikolai Lunev, director of the Kuldzha Russian school.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, businessmen - “shuttle traders” from the CIS - have frequented the XUAR. There were so many visitors that signs in Russian appeared on stores. For the first time in many years, Chinese Slavs were able to communicate with people from Russia. There was an opportunity to travel abroad.

Alas, the impressions of the “historical homeland” among the “Chinese Russians” are far from clear. “Everything is a little strange in Russia. People live well, richly, but if you go into a city toilet, it’s a disgrace. There are a lot of angry, boorish people, but I had a very funny incident. I'm sitting on the bus and suddenly an old man comes in. I, of course, give way to him. He refuses. I persuade him: “Please sit down, grandfather.” And suddenly he asks me: “Where are you from?” In order not to explain for a long time what’s what, I say: “From Kazakhstan.” And he loudly spoke to the whole bus: “You see, where there is still culture left - in Kazakhstan!” Yes, this is not the Russia my grandparents told me about!” - concludes Alexander Zazulin, a native of Kulja.

The former presence of Russians is quite noticeable in the far north of Xinjiang - in the Chinese Altai and neighboring Inner Mongolia. About two thousand descendants of mixed Russian-Chinese marriages live here. In Inner Mongolia, in the city of Eerguna, the first Russian ethnographic museum in China was even created, and the village, half of whose residents have Slavic roots, was renamed the village of Russian Pogranichnoye.

The overwhelming majority of local Russians in Chinese Altai and Inner Mongolia were Old Believers who fled to the region from persecution by the tsarist authorities in the 18th-19th centuries. Russian settlers taught the indigenous inhabitants of these places - the Mongols and Tuvans - to build wooden log houses, as well as to use the Russian bathhouse. Today, the appearance of the Tuvan and Mongolian villages of the Chinese Altai is practically indistinguishable from the traditional Russian settlements of Siberia.

“The Russians had a huge influence on the regions of China bordering the former USSR. Today's Chinese Russians are a completely special group. We consider China our homeland, but we do not forget about historical Russia. Almost all of us, including “half-breeds,” speak Russian and are interested in the culture of the country of our ancestors. Today, ties between China and Russia are growing rapidly, and Chinese Russians can become a kind of bridge between the two countries,” concluded Nikolai Lunev in a conversation with a Rosbalt correspondent.

If you are Russian parents who, by the will of fate, moved with your children to China, you are seriously concerned about the issue of further education of your children in the Middle Kingdom. How to make the best choice, how to choose priorities, will children be able to adapt to a new cultural environment? There is not much information on the topic of cultural adaptation of children abroad, especially about China. Basically, these are forums and personal communication. In this article, I will try to analyze my personal experience and the experience of the parents around me, accumulated over 4 years in Guangzhou.

Where to study?

There are several ways to choose a full-time educational institution, depending on your finances. I would like to note that any education is a long-term process in terms of results, and what is more important here is how long you can provide the chosen school for your child.

So number 1 is international schools. The cost of training is above 100 thousand yuan per year. For this money you will get a high-status school, well equipped, with a good teaching staff. If you can pay for this school for at least 4-5 years, then this is an excellent choice. Sometimes cheaper schools have a religious component. Teaching is conducted in English and Mandarin. Of course, if I had the financial means, I would want my children to study in English (but probably not in China). Number 2 is a local Chinese public school. It is believed that a public school is better than a private one (the teacher's salary is higher), so such schools are overcrowded (60 people per class). Teaching in Mandarin and very, very strict discipline. The cost in Guangzhou is about 40-70 thousand yuan. Number 3 is a private Chinese school. The school is good for its cost, especially if it is not in the city center, but in the suburbs or on the border with another city, cheaper. The price per year (using the example of one of the schools located on the border of Guangzhou and Foshan) is about 15,000 yuan without boarding.

I would like to note that the system is very convenient, that in many schools there is a boarding school (school days or the entire semester), children are at school full day (7:30 - 16:30), the older they are, the longer. Also, if you want your child to do homework with a teacher at school, you can pay extra for this at school. The effectiveness of classes will depend on the diligence of your child, but he will not need to carry a briefcase home, and you will not need to devote time to helping children with homework. Also, sometimes the school offers a discount (for example, 50%) for the second child if you bring a certificate from the building administration of your “Garden” (residential complex or area) to which the school belongs that you bought an apartment there. You can also ask the school to issue you and your child a student visa. Sometimes they formalize, sometimes not, depending on whether the school has such experience. International schools will do this by default, but smaller schools may refuse if they have not had this experience before.

Personal experience.

I found the school by chance, it was in an area that suited me completely, and within walking distance from home, several Russian children were already studying there. My children moved here when they were 6 and 8 years old. The eldest had already studied at a Russian school for a year and a half and knew what school was. The younger one learned pinyin in a “preparatory class” at school in a year and a half, so it was much easier for him than the older one, who started 1st grade in the second half of the year. The first year I didn’t require them to do homework, I just made sure that they were in the mood to go to school, and tried to strengthen this spirit. I think this moment was more painful for me than for the children: my heart sank when I came to school throughout the year and watched from the classroom window as my boys sat in the back desks and were bored. Every day I heard: “We don’t understand anything,” “I don’t like China,” etc. I think the majority of children and parents go through this, but I believe that if not these complaints, then there would be similar ones in Russia : “I don’t like Ivanov”, “I don’t like Maryivanna”, etc. After a year of our stay, it was time to take stock of whether they adapted to school or not, and maybe there is no point further... As was advised in one article, if after a year your child has not adapted, return him to his home school. But my advice is just to keep moving, pull yourself together and... hire a nanny who will sort everything out, or a teacher, and make it clear to the children that there are no options. And also stick to your chosen priorities.

Advantages and disadvantages.

A big plus, overshadowing the shortcomings of the education system, for me as a mother was the very presence of children in the Chinese environment: Chinese children do not carry iPads or money to school, theft or aggression is rare, there are no children who bring “bad pictures” to school and strive to enlighten less knowledgeable peers, you can be 100% calm about the content of Chinese TV, they won’t talk about violence and 16+ topics 24 hours a day, at school children are generally very friendly towards foreigners, no one swears. In these aspects, I am very pleased with our living environment, and I have something to compare with: in Russia, my children attended good educational institutions in the center of Moscow with an appropriate contingent. At the Chinese school I was rarely called (and I am the mother of boys); parent meetings were held in order to demonstrate the class’s achievements for the year, and not to once again raise money. I will also emphasize the special attitude of the Chinese towards knowledge and teachers. The school as a whole is well organized, it is convenient for children to wear a sports uniform in the special colors of the school and with its emblem as a school uniform, teaching aids are also included in the cost of training, as well as the uniform.

Disadvantages: for unfinished homework you can get a ruler on your hands, and it’s quite painful. This is also common for rudeness and other offenses. But you can always come to a lesson and watch how it goes from behind the glass windows of the classroom. I hope your children will be diligent enough. However, it all depends on your teacher, how strict he is.

Result.

Overall, I think Chinese education is quite competitive. In what language you receive the basics of understanding mathematics, geography, geometry and other sciences, this is not so important to me, the main thing is that this understanding generally exists: the simplest things without which you cannot live. The Chinese language is difficult, yes, but when children go to school, they learn it gradually, and there is nothing unattainable about it. You need to constantly practice writing hieroglyphs, just like reading Chinese books. The process of assimilation itself is structured well, everything happens gradually, step by step, without unnecessary complications. It is also important for me that my son, who has problems with motor skills and concentration, like many modern children, is not bullied by anyone for his handwriting and inability to write accurately. Tests are easier to pass than in a Russian school - they are half tests, half assignments. I am glad that, in general, children do not have an aversion to acquiring knowledge, they love to be interested in everything new, they love reading books and watching educational programs, they can ride a bicycle to school and walk freely in safety in the vast territory of the town, just be happy children.

As a result in numbers, we have 87 points in Chinese. And this, I think, is good work that my children and teachers did.

In 1715, by decree of Peter I, the Russian Orthodox Spiritual Mission was founded, which, in addition to a group of priests, also included students to study Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and other eastern languages, local customs and Chinese culture. The Russian Embassy is located on its former territory today.

The first school on the territory of the current Embassy (former Mission) appeared only at the beginning of the 20th century, under the head of the 18th Mission, Metropolitan of Beijing and China Innocent (Figurovsky). This school was located at the North Gate of the Central Mission District and was located in two Chinese fanzes. Both Russian and Chinese children studied at the “Russian-Chinese School” (as it was then called). The school was united, since Russian was compulsory. The number of students reached 50 people.

After the victory of the socialist revolution in China under After P.F. In Yudina, a secondary school was opened in 1954 for the children of Soviet Embassy workers, which was initially located in the building of the Druzhba Hotel in the northwestern part of Beijing. The school existed in this location until 1962.

Since 1963, after the USSR in the PRC, S.V. Chervonenko, after the completion of the construction of a modern building, the school began to function on the territory of the Embassy. From 1967 to 1969, the work of the school was suspended due to the deterioration of relations between the USSR and the PRC and resumed in 1970 under After the USSR in the PRC V.S. Tolstikov. From 1970 to 1971, the school operated first as an elementary school and then as a junior high school. Since 1972, it has resumed its work as a secondary school. In 1995, after the Russian Federation in the PRC, I.A. In Rogachev, the school building was reconstructed, which made it possible to improve living conditions and increase the area of ​​classrooms, which now amounts to 2063 square meters. meters. The school has about 40 classrooms, an assembly and sports halls, and a spacious library.

General information:

• City: Beijing
• Location: st. Dongzhimen Beizhongjie 4
• Year of foundation: 1854
• Teaching Staff: The School employs 35 professional teachers sent by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs or accepted locally by family members of employees of Russian foreign institutions who have the appropriate pedagogical education, teaching experience, qualifications, honorary or scientific title.
• Number of students: There are 236 children receiving full-time education at the School, 93 children are studying independently in the family form and in the form of self-education.

Studying programs

Based on Article 88 of Federal Law-273, other citizens can study at a foreign school if there are vacancies and by decision of the head of the Embassy on a paid basis in accordance with the calculations of standard costs for the provision of public services in the field of education, approved by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There are no payment benefits. The issue of the social package (including the problem of paying for the education of employees’ children) should be resolved not with the Embassy administration, but with the heads of the organizations where the parents work.

Education and training at the School are conducted in Russian, and the School accepts children who are fluent in Russian (the school does not have teachers with a specialty in “Russian as a Foreign Language”).

The secondary school at the Russian Embassy in the People's Republic of China carries out the educational process in accordance with three levels of general education: primary general education (normative period of development - 4 years); basic general education (normative period of development - 5 years); secondary general education (normative period of development - 2 years).

In accordance with Federal Law No. 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation", citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to choose the form of education: full-time, family or self-education. The procedure for organizing education for external students (self-students) who are in the family form of education or self-education is developed by the School independently.

Mastering general education programs in the form of family education and self-education involves mastering educational material independently or with parents (legal representatives) of the student, followed by mandatory passing of intermediate and state final certification.

Externs are enrolled in the School only for the duration of their intermediate and final certification based on the application of their parents (legal representatives) in grades 1–9 and on the basis of a personal application of an external student in grades 10–11. After passing the certification, the external student is expelled from the School until the next certification.

Certification of external students is carried out in 1st grade - in the second ten days of May.

Certification of external students in grades 2–11 is carried out 2 times during the academic year: in December and in the second ten days of May.

State Examination of 9 grades is carried out in the form of the State Final Examination (GVE) at the end of May - the first ten days of June.

GIA in 11 grades in the form of the Unified State Exam on the same days of these exams throughout Russia.

The duration of the school year is in 1st grades - 33 weeks, in 2nd - 4th grades - 34 weeks, in 5th - 8th grades - 35 weeks, in 9th grades - 34 weeks, in 10th grades - 35 weeks, 11th grades classes – 34 weeks excluding the terms of state (final) certification.

Holidays during the 2014-2015 academic year:

• autumn holidays: from November 3 to 9;
• winter holidays: from December 29 to January 11;
• spring break: from March 23 to 29;
• For students in the 1st grade, an additional week-long holiday is established from February 16 to 20.

Accommodation

Accommodation is provided in dormitories for foreign students

Many people ask me where and how to study in China for my son. It’s a long story, and I’m already tired, too, so I finally chose the time when my Internet completely went down, apparently for a long time, work stopped, and I have time to write, but really, how and where did my son study?

When we got ready to go to Shenzhen to try to live here, and not on another business trip, naturally, the question of our son arose, he was 12 years old at the time. Should I leave him to study in Russia with my grandmother, or should I take him with me? If he takes him with him, where will he study in China, and, most importantly, how?
We left in June, but this issue has been a headache for me since February.

I found a forum, started corresponding with those whose children study in China, and at that time I read absolutely everything that was on the Internet. Naturally, as always on forums, I received “wonderful” advice from smart mothers, who reproached me for not thinking about my son when taking him to China, and advised me to leave him in Russia, and much more. There was such discord in my thoughts and soul that my heart began to be crushed. :)) In general, as always, when thoughts run ahead of the locomotive. As a result, life itself put everything in its place, however, as always.
Another interesting thing was that we were practically pioneers for Shenzhen. In Shenzhen at that time there were no more than 1000 Russians per 8-10 million population. The entire flow of Russians went to Guangzhou (this is a city 90 km from Shenzhen), since it was in Guangzhou that all the most interesting things at that time for Russians were located: clothes, shoes, all accessories for cell phones, fur coats, haberdashery, etc. And Shenzhen has only just ceased to be a separate economic zone.
For reference, I will say that when the city of Shenzhen became a free economic zone, the entry of Chinese from outside was closed. Shenzhen had its own passports, and to come here, or even get a job, you needed permission, an invitation, and something else. Who knows, they will correct me. At the entrance to Shenzhen there was a card (it still stands, but travel is free), foreigners were allowed in freely, either in cars or on buses, but the Chinese were always stopped and their documents were checked. Prices in Shenzhen were 2 times higher than in Guangzhou, and, accordingly, who needed it?
And it so happened that here the Russians almost all knew each other, who lived here for 4, 6 years at that time. And then there was no such need for Russians and there was no such flow of immigrants to come to China with their children who were already studying in high school. I know those who worked here, but the children completed their studies in Russia and lived with their grandmothers.
Well, here we are, with the desire to take our 12-year-old child with us.
It’s good that we all, including my grandmother, were of the same opinion - we should take our son with us. Here, somehow, many factors came together at once. And the fact that my son’s studies were unimportant, and his “bad” behavior at school, and the fact that our school merged with another nearby one, and the director moved from there, and the fact that I, as the parent of a disobedient child, was dragged around to all kinds of school commissions, psychologists, defectologists, and.....in general, everywhere we have been. :))
If anyone has come across this, he knows how all these specialists earn their money in Russia now. So, we didn’t think twice about it - with us, period.
The only thing is that for the device, my husband and I went in June, and our friends brought our son to us in August.

My posts about how I got my son into school are on the Hemisphere website. And the topic in the Shenzhen section “Teenagers in China” is also mine, because, as I already said, there were only one or two Russian children aged 12 in Shenzhen at that time, and the number was outnumbered.
I will repeat here, as a conclusion, what we got by going around all the schools, what we encountered, what forms of refusal we received, and what reasons they gave us for refusal.
1. All registration for all schools for the new academic year takes place in February - March.
Moreover, everyone officially registers in April, but if you come in April, then all the places will already be taken. I encountered this later, when I tried to arrange for my child from the second semester, in March.
2. The classes are all full. The standard number of students in China in each class is 50. If no one goes anywhere after the end of the school year, then there is no way to get into the class, because just as they recruited 50 people, they go and go from class to class, no one will take the 51st into the class.
3. My son did not know either Chinese or English (for foreign schools).
It’s clear that no one needs a foreign guy who will sit stupidly without understanding anything, you won’t teach him anything, and he won’t receive anything in the form of knowledge.
4. The son was then already about 160 cm tall. And he had to be taken to class in the 5th. And there, damn it, there’s still a meter with a cap. The teachers also talked about this.
5. In general, they can enroll in secondary school only after finishing primary school. In primary there are 4-5 grades, then you pass it and are transferred to secondary. Well, it was necessary, then, first to the initial one, as it were. And there are kids, they go to school from the age of 6, grades 1-2-3-4-5, where to put him. In the 3rd, 4th? In general, it’s not a fountain either.
6. Foreign schools. Let’s leave out the moment of money; I’ll write about prices in the second part. Let’s imagine that we don’t have a lot of money, and that we come like this, pay, and they take him to school.
Fig. Because without knowledge of English they don’t take you either. Because it won't make any sense either.

Thus, I honestly spent everything I could in September, then continued in February and March.
For those who are meticulous and ask how I walked alone like that, and in what language I spoke to everyone, I want to say that I did not walk alone. I wouldn’t have done ANYTHING here and I wouldn’t have found out. One of our friends helped me a lot. For no reason, or because of her natural good character, maybe out of a desire to help, maybe because she couldn’t refuse, she walked with me, and called, and made an appointment, she speaks Chinese well.

In general, for a whole year I tried to prevent my son from sitting at home, but from going to school somewhere, like all normal children. God knows, I did everything I could for this.
Well, probably with one exception. They could still take my son to a foreign school without knowing English, where the tuition was $30,000 a year. :)))) Sorry, but in the first year of living in China we were not ready for such an amount for our son’s 5th grade education. :))
Probably those who have that kind of money for their son’s education still go to England to live, or somewhere else, or they are the children of officials, pilots and other cool specialists who can either pay such sums themselves, or for them pay social employers package. Don’t be surprised, I know a family from Brazil (I studied here at Shenzhen University together with a woman whose husband worked as a pilot for one of the airlines), and the airline paid for the education of his two children in such a school. Social package, however. :)
Thanks to another person, Fanis, he and his son lived then in the North of China in a small town, his son would have been a year older than my son. He also came without any knowledge with his father and mother to China, where, through the permission of the education department, he was taken to a Chinese school at the age of 12, and a year later he was already speaking Chinese. We met on the Hemisphere, communicated in instant messengers, I consulted on how and what, and the example of their son was very optimistic for me.
He was the first to give me information about the School at the Russian Embassy in Beijing, and a link to the Moscow School of Tomorrow, where it was possible to continue studying the Russian program remotely.
What happened with the school at the embassy?
We called, found out everything, wrote off, understood everything, we had to pay for the training. We received a receipt, paid, and the money was returned. We called again, clarified, asked, paid again - the money came back again.
In the meantime, I was already in close contact with the Moscow distance school on the subject of how to study remotely, and what we get as a result.
I’ve also already learned a lot about the Russian school at the embassy, ​​and I also made my own conclusions (I’m not writing them here).
In general, when the money was returned the second time, my husband and I realized that this was a sign, and that our son apparently did not need to study there.
So we sent all of our son’s personal documents to Moscow, and he was assigned to this school until the end of 9th grade.
The school provides the opportunity for distance learning in the Russian program, and completion of grades 9 and 11. You only need to appear at school 2 times: for the State Examination in 9th grade, and for the Unified State Exam in 10th grade. The rest of the time, your child learns on his own with your help, teacher consultations via Skype and email, you can take subjects once a quarter, or monthly. There are different tariffs and different educational options, you discuss everything with the head teacher individually. Last year they actively introduced video lessons via Skype.
In general, I was told that there are now a lot of such schools. Yes it was. But I’m glad they suggested this one to us.
Thus, our son studied at home, in parallel with the Chinese language, we helped him, he passed all the subjects once a quarter. This is how I studied in grades 6-7-8 and 9.
Now, of course, many Russian children come, and many study in Chinese schools. But since I learned a lot about how it was with us, I’ll tell you next time about how Russian children study now in Chinese and foreign schools, and about how the Chinese themselves study.

The education system is represented by a million educational institutions of various profiles and levels. They collectively educate more than 200 million people. Mandatory, according to the Chinese Constitution, is a secondary 9-year education. High school and post-secondary education are voluntary and people enter them at will and taking into account their needs and preferences. Thus, the education system is divided into several stages:

• Kindergarten (3-6 years old)
• Primary school (6-12)
• Incomplete secondary (12-15)
• Full secondary (15-18)
• Secondary professional (16-20)
• High school (18-25).

The system has many unique features; its achievements and successes largely explain the rapid development of the country. Despite the fact that educational institutions are under strict state control, they respond very quickly and efficiently to all the challenges of the modern world, making adjustments and necessary changes. Specialists receiving education in China have a pronounced ability to quickly adapt to rapidly changing external conditions, and are increasingly competing in the global labor market.

The country has a sufficient number of both standard institutions and centers for children with special needs (visual, hearing, mental, and musculoskeletal disorders). Education is incredibly multifaceted.

Key-schools (the best and most prestigious), vocational institutions, and universities are open for foreign students. Particularly popular are institutions offering programs. Such centers and schools exist in almost every province of modern China, and the best language educational institutions are concentrated in large cities. A lot of attention is paid to education, which is why branches of several international schools have been opened here - such centers accept foreign students with minimal restrictions.

Benefits of getting an education in China

• The importance of China in global development is constantly growing: today the country holds the lead in population and growth rate of literacy, branches of educational centers around the world are opening - the country has practically unlimited opportunities for receiving professional training.

• Chinese today is the second international language and is second only to English in popularity in the world. Knowing this language is important, primarily for business.
• Education meets international standards and is of high quality. The national diploma is valued in most countries of the world.
• You can study at any age: the country offers a wide range of programs for children (), teenagers, and adults.

Schools in China for children and schoolchildren: features and advantages

The vast majority of institutions are public, and education is free for citizens. They provide a fairly high level of knowledge and help children find their place in life, determine their interests and preferences. After the compulsory 9 years, you can enter secondary vocational institutions, or continue school. In recent years, the system has been actively developing, and the popularity of establishments of this type is growing. Studies are conducted in both Chinese and English (English is a compulsory subject). Various standards available:

• Chinese education system
• American(s)
• International.

Private institutions are represented both by branches of European, American and international schools, and by Chinese schools themselves. Most of them are full-fledged and have the highest level of equipment and comfort. The curriculum contains a large number of disciplines and subjects, many of them can be studied at a very high level and in an in-depth format. Lessons and activities are accompanied by active extracurricular activities, creativity and sports, children develop comprehensively. The teachers have an exceptionally high level of qualifications and extensive experience. Diplomas and certificates are recognized in most countries of the world; with them you can enter universities and colleges in various countries in Europe, Asia, and America.

Higher education in China: prestigious and high-quality education

In total, there are more than 100 operating in the country, almost all of them are state-owned. There are several levels available, sequentially following each other:

• College (3 years of study, Certificate upon completion)
• Basic (3-5 years, Bachelor's degree)
• Basic (2-3 years, Master's degree)
• Additional (2-4 years, Doctor's Degree).

Educational institutions, despite control by government bodies, have fairly broad powers and capabilities, and differ in methods and workload. To say that they are developing rapidly is to say nothing - every year more and more establishments occupy high places in world rankings. Every year, more and more foreign and domestic students prefer to study in China, as this not only provides the opportunity to receive an exceptionally high-quality education, but also significantly save money - after all, the education itself, and especially accommodation and food, costs significantly less than in Europe or America. Universities have specialization - there are technical, pedagogical, linguistic and others, complex and additional courses are available, you can study several foreign languages. Diplomas are recognized by most countries in the world, graduates achieve significant success in professional and scientific activities.