International Schools in China

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Normaan Merchant, China's demand for pricey international schools 'insatiable.' Associated Press, Sept 12, 2016
https://www.washingtonpost.com/b ... c8a724bb_story.html

Note:
(a) I did go to AP website to read this same report. Indeed, the first name of the reporter has double a.

(b) "TIANJIN, China — The school year at Haileybury College's campus outside Beijing * * * Attending Haileybury costs up to $28,000 a year. But Haileybury, which opened the Chinese version of its century-old Australian prep school three years ago, nearly doubled its enrollment this year and is considering opening a second campus in China."
(i) "[O]utside Beijing."  The Chinese campus is not in Beijing or its suburb. Rather it is located in Tianjin. Beijing is mentioned, because foreigners (ie, non-Chinese) do not know Tianjin.
(ii) Haileybury (Melbourne)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haileybury_(Melbourne)
(Type: Independent, Co-educational, Day school [which means no boarding]; Denomination  Uniting Church; P-12; section 2 History)
(A) An "independent" school in UK and the Commonwealth means the same as a "private" school in US.  
(B) K-12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%E2%80%9312
(section 2 P–12: "In Australia, P–12 is sometimes used in place of K–12, particularly in Queensland, where it is used as an official term in the curriculum framework. P–12 schools serve children for the thirteen years from prep until Year 12")

In US, it is K-12, kindergarten to 12. (In US but not in Taiwan, kindergarten is part of the primary school -- both geographically and administratively. the school systems from K-12 vary in US, because they are run by local governments (cities and towns). The Cambridge (Massachusetts) Public Schools has elementary school (K-5, inclusive), Upper School (grades 6-8) and high school (9-12). More likely in US, the intermediate level is called middle school.

In Australia, P-12 = Prep to 12, where "Prep" (short for preparatory") is the same as kindergarten in US. Not just Queensland, but in Victoria also (a state whose capital is Melbourne). See, eg,

Prep. Transition. In "Primary Years" (a tag in the top horizontal bar), Carwatha College P-12, undated.www.carwatha.vic.edu.au/Primary-Years/Junior-School/
http://www.carwatha.vic.edu.au/Primary-Years/Junior-School/

These "Prep" students in the Prep are, and look, kindergart(e)ners.  

Carwatha College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carwatha_College
(a state co-educational school located in Noble Park North ['26 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district'], Victoria, Australia)

(c) section 2 History in (b)(ii) tells the founder of the Melbourne school came from Haileybury College of England.
(i) Haileybury and Imperial Service College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha ... ial_Service_College
(Type   Independent school, [co-ed], Boarding and day school; Religion  Church of England; Location  Hertford Heath [a village], Hertfordshire; Ages 11–19 [College's own website says '11-18']; section 1 History: started out as East India Company (EIC) College in 1806)
(ii) The preceding page does not explain how Haileybury name came about. It turns out that the name Haileybury was there when EIC college was founded.
(A) The East India College. In The story of Haileybury. England: Haileybury College, undated
https://www.haileybury.com/explo ... /east-india-college
("On 23 October 1805, 'Hailey Bury House near Hertford' and its surrounding 60-acre estate was sold by auction at Garraway's Coffee House in London to the Directors of the East India Company for the site of their proposed college. * * * The College was based initially at Hertford Castle. In terms of space, cost and the limitations of a proposed lease, it was obvious that this could never be more than a temporary occupancy. In consequence, the Building Committee of the East India Company selected William Wilkins to design a purpose-built college on their new site. * * * Wilkins designed an elegant building in the Greek revival taste, the heart of which, the South Front and the Quadrangle, still survive to this day [as part of Haileybury College]. The new East India College at Haileybury opened for business at its new premises in 1809")

At the end of the text, you will find the link to the next section: "The founding of Haileybury."
(B) Book Uncovers a School for Scandal. Hertfordshire Mercury, February 24, 2006
http://www.hertfordshiremercury. ... 7-detail/story.html

(iii) two photos of Haileybury Quad.
(A) Father Luke Miller, New Guv's Test 1. Haileyburiana, Feb 13, 2011
haileyburiana.blogspot.com/2011_02_13_archive.html
(last photo, which is a bird's-eye view)
(B) Nigel Lomas, Haileybury Quad | 360 degree panorama of the Quad at Haileybury College in Herts England. Flickr, Apr 8, 2012.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/niglom/7068722591
(iv) Clement Attlee (prime minister 1945 – 1951; Labour Party; preceded and succeeded by Winston Churchill) was from Haileybury College (England) and went on to Oxford as an undergraduate.
(v) college
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College
(section 3.17 United Kingdom: In the context of secondary education, 'college' is used in the names of some private schools, e.g. Eton College and Winchester College)

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(c) "Getting into China’s best public high schools can be monumentally difficult, but regardless of whether their child has the academic chops, many parents are opting [for] an international school" within China.

chop (n; from Hindi and Urdu) "QUALITY, GRADE <of the first chop>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chop
(d) " 'What they [Chinese parents]  really care about is the happiness of their children,' said Wang Dan, an education professor at the University of Hong Kong."

Dr WANG, Dan 王丹. PhD (Syracuse University, USA) Associate Professor.
http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/danwang

It is a WOMAN!  Not the same one as that in Taiwan. "2015年8月起，受聘於國立中正大學戰略暨國際事務研究所擔任客座助理教授，為期2年。"  zh.wikipedia.org for 王丹.
(e) "More than 150,000 Chinese students are currently enrolled in international schools, according to the consultancy [International School Consultancy (ISC)], which says the number of Chinese who can afford to pay seemingly stratospheric fees for those schools — even if it’s just a small percentage of the country's population — will continue to grow, absent a dramatic downturn in China's economy."

ISC's head office is in "Farringdon, Oxon" -- according to its website.  See Oxon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxon
(may refer to "an abbreviation for the English county of Oxfordshire (from Oxonia, Latin for Oxford)" )

(f) "Britain's Dulwich College now runs schools for Chinese students in the eastern city of Suzhou and the southern city of Zhuhai; Britain's Hurtwood House operates in association with a school in eastern Ningbo.  William Vanbergen, managing director of the Shanghai school consulting firm BE Education 必益教育 [2003- ], predicts many more Western schools will enter China in the coming years."
(i) Dulwich College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulwich_College
(in Dulwich [name of a neighborhood] in southeast London; Gender Boys; Ages 2–18)
(ii)
(A) Hurtwood House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurtwood_House
(B) History of Hurtwood. Friends of the Hurtwood, undated
https://friendsofthehurtwood.co. ... ory-of-the-hurtwood
("The first surprise is that the name Hurtwood may not derive – as is generally believed - from the hurts (the local name for wild blueberries) whose bushes carpet the woods and hills, but from the Old English word 'ceart' or 'churt' meaning a rough common overrun with gorse, broom and bracken")

(g) " 'It's a tough ask for any student to go as a foreign student to another country,' [Haileybury China's CEO Nick] Dwyer said. * * * [Haileybury China] buil[t] a tree-lined campus between Beijing and the port city of Tianjin, featuring a towering administration building with two turrets that's a replica of London's Eton College prep school. * * * [Haileybury China] charges higher tuition in China than in Australia. * * * Teachers give lessons in both English and Chinese * * * The school offers a modified version of the standard Chinese curriculum until high school levels, and then classes based on Australia’s Victoria Certificate of Education.  Haileybury's first class of about 25 students graduates this fall. * * * Dwyer said he expects to break even this year. * * * Zeng Xiaodong 曾晓东, a professor at Beijing Normal University" says poor students do not have this choice.
(i)
(A) a big ask: "or a tough ask : British, Australian and New Zealand informal a task which is difficult to fulfil"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio ... ig-ask#a-big-ask__1
(B) ask (n): "a request, especially for a donation  <it was an awkward ask for more funding>"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/ask
(ii) Eton College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College
(photos)