China bars foreign ownership in some private schools

BEIJING: China’s state council has announced tough new curbs on school curriculums and ownership of private schools, the latest in a series of measures intended to tighten control of the country’s fast-growing education sector. The country’s new law, which will come into effect on September 1 this year, will halt the teaching of foreign curriculum in schools from kindergarten to grade nine, also called K-9, and prohibits the ownership or control of any private K-9 schools by foreign entities..