Foreign student enrollment rates in China are recovering post-pandemic, driven by rising demand from Asia and Africa as students are drawn by lower costs, scholarships and shifting global dynamics.
    • LePoisson@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 days ago

      I think part of it is the disillusionment of us Americans with the USA. I grew up being proud to be a citizen of the USA. The more I learned of our true history, the more I grew up, the slipping quality of life - the huge issues we have with healthcare, infrastructure, income inequality and ineffectual government … All of that seems at least less bad in China.

      Now, I’m not gonna glaze China - that country has plenty of its own problems. However, they at least seem to be embracing emerging and mature green energy tech, are not on an anti intellectual path and have a functional government (which is not to say I don’t have plenty of problems with China). Also they seem to be less interested in killing people for … Reasons? … Vs the USA who conducts diplomacy by violent means as the normal course.

      Anyways yeah I guess China just seems like a better place than the USA right now but you could level plenty of valid complaints at both countries.

    • laflutter446@lemmy.org
      2·
      9 days ago

      Lemmy has limited propaganda detection. China’s government and the US both warp history, and China’s government has employed thousands of disinformation “keyboard warriors” well before the era of AI disinformation and propaganda. I’ve personally met one. The difference between the two governments, for now, is the ability to talk about issues like the live organ harvesting of political prisoners or China’s slow genocide of the East Turkestan nation.

  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    9 days ago

    I think the biggest draw is that the best universities are now in China, and they are only going to get stronger with time since China has a very strong school system. Someone leaving school in my country (India) can study for almost no cost at an Indian government college, but even our best institutions cannot compete with Chinese universities in funding, student and teacher quality, international rankings (yes, I know they aren’t all that accurate, but many employers care about stuff like this) and ultimately career prospects.

  • randomname@scribe.disroot.org
    2·
    9 days ago

    That’s part of so-called “Chinamaxxing” that started on Tiktok some time ago and has now arrived to other social media platforms, spread by influencers and other propagandists like OP.

    As one article by the BBC says,

    One of the most influential figures behind the Chinamaxxing meme is Sherry Zhu, a Chinese-American TikTok content creator who regularly shares traditional wellness tips with her “Chinese baddies”.

    “Tomorrow you’re turning Chinese,” she tells her 740,000 TikTok followers. “And I know that sounds intimidating, but there is no point in fighting it now.”

  • 𝓜𝓲𝓪@quokk.auEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I’d be curious to know how ECE courses are in China. I can’t see them having the same emphasis on play based learning and child focused pedagogy.

    • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I’m guessing you mean Early childhood education. Stupid acronyms everywhere (SAE, I called it).

      A former coworker of mine used to run a child care in Beijing before she came to us. You could see the difference in her first group with us; they were very disciplined, and she was kinda focused on making little performances. But she changed her style soon.

      That said, she ran it privately in Beijing, so I’m going to take a wild guess that preschool stuff is more free market than dictated in China.

      edit: hmm, I guess you were asking about studying that in PRC