China’s Middle Class Frets as Macau Ban Non-‘Gaokao’ Students

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Many Chinese families send their children to international schools to avoid the country’s grueling college-entrance exams. But they are facing growing barriers.  Middle-class Chinese parents have reacted with concern to news that universities in Macau plan to ban applications from mainland students who did not take the gaokao , China’s national college-entrance exams. A growing number of Chinese families have chosen to send their children to expensive international schools in recent years, so that they can avoid the grueling and highly competitive gaokao system. But these students are now facing growing barriers, as universities in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau become increasingly concerned about widespread cheating among non- gaokao applicants. Universities on the Chinese mainland require all domestic applicants to take the gaokao . But institutions in Hong Kong and Macau traditionally allowed applications from students with other qualifications, ………………………………