Early in November, five private schools in Australia closed down 19 private schools in Australia have a closure, two storm has killed more than a thousand Chinese students out of school, students are also in Shanxi Province.
17-year-old is one of Tang Tang, Datong Tang Tang is the province of people, by the end of September 2009 has just been to Australia to study in their own schools, where collapse, Tang Tang plunged into panic, and for him, it is a young man like him the first time to face an important choice in life. The end of this month, this reporter contacted the international long distance as far away as Australia and the Australian Tang Tang Shanxi Shanxi student membership society’s Wang Chengbo, listening to them talk about her strange new life after the school closure.
School “sudden death”
Tang Tang school is located in Melbourne, Australia, Tang Tang in the city of Meridian International Hotel Management School of Management, Reading. To hear the news of school closings, he is also a classroom for the phone cards how to apply the flow of services and the students debate the Indian side.
“At the time of the lectures and rest periods, as usual. A teacher and several students at the door chatting days. We do not know, we speak it, a black jacket with a middle-aged woman (the latter to understand the school director) upstairs to All the teachers called the meeting … … “Tang Tang recalled, kept trained on sudden a quarter of an hour.
More than 10 minutes later, back to the classroom teacher is very upset and announced suspension of classes for students to go home. And then tell everyone the truth, the school went out of business.
I look at the Mongolian, and the students are also looking around like this, but the Chinese students are more calm, a lot of people are looking for fellow talk or to call home, while some other countries, students are pushed principals office to require schools to offer an explanation.
Tang Tang first to a hospital in Datong’s father went to the phone, Dad told him first Do not worry, I asked him some details, let him go home. Registered at the phone, my father hastened to the original study in Taiyuan to do an intermediary company chiefs to call, but the phone apart, Wang Dan, this boss has been bruised and battered. In the closure of several schools, there is running out of their company’s four students, faced with the question, he can not do anything.
Tang Tang majored in TAFE (Vocational and Technical Education) courses, school system for 2 years. He had just started school system more than a month to pay the tuition fees for half a year, about 40,000 yuan. The money can come back or a small, mainly behind the last two years how the school should be? Life Program of the original planning how to go? 17-year-old Tang Tang bit Liushenwuzhu.
To Australia to study, or studying in this school in Melbourne to study hotel management and even the profession, are not from Tang Tang’s interest or professional, in to Australia before his large the same secondary school to high school, but finished high school, after his results were flattening out, the parents discussed several times. Feel that this is coming down a third-rate universities, it is better to prepare early, go abroad to spend a similar price, but also on a good school.
Around to find someone to inquire about family, and later heard in the intermediary, where the trend of today’s students has changed, the previous returnees very popular, and now the returnees may not be able to find a good job. The best way is to ask their children of migrants. The students are able to migrate is the quickest way to the Meridian International School of Management, similar to such schools to read.
The intermediary arrangement, Tang Tang Taiyuan on the six-month language training courses, and so he went to Australia only gradually realized that such a school is actually the domestic technical schools, not even secondary schools there is no playground, no student activity room, who did not come here to learn a few are “developed countries”, not the Chinese people is an Indian, but in order to achieve their own “Australian dream”, he decided to stay, he wants two years passed quickly. But this moment, the school closed down, that dream to break.
To change schools, school choice, or to work?
Meridian application of such private vocational school students in China, most of his pocket an immigrant dream. Tang Tang a few students from Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and other places, there are a Shanxi, “but less than contacts,” while a similar background to their identities, families are mostly middle class or small business owners, “the parents relations, capacity is limited, we can only fate. ”
A week later, the school informed the students go back to the collection, tell you that the Government has already started handling this matter, some students can transfer to a school in northern Melbourne Institute to build a school, if the transfer can be reluctant to discuss dropping out. This is another deep-fried Chinese students ranks of the pot, Tang Tang listen to a few bigger students to speak, that college than it is now the school is also bad, we persuaded him that he had just arrived a good choice, back in school and then choose a school bar, while many more were still waiting for resettlement by the Government.
The big brother who came from Shandong Province were given a better proposal, you first, to work themselves some money, and then work-study, to find a good point of schools. This 17-year-old Tang Tang is a greater incentive to go abroad during this trip, after he had spent nearly 20 million and that if do not want to change schools, but selecting school, then definitely have to spend a lot of money. In Melbourne, Chinese students to work is very normal thing, but income is still good (about 4000 a week).
Out by a friend, Shandong Big Brother promised to help him find a “printing assistant” job is to “help plant Tai Tai print and play package.” Which he informed them of family, the family firmly opposed to the termination of their studies, he went to work, arguing the two sides reached a compromise last, first wait for the resettlement of the Australian Government, if there is a good opportunity for selecting school, first school, the use of break time to work .
How many students out of school in Shanxi?
Wang Chengbo is the beginning of this century immigration to Australia, I heard an interview with the media from the home phone, he was actually talking about his Pingyao dialect, he is currently in Australia, a company doing electronic products, is “the Australian Association of Shanxi” in members. “I originally did not know what the school closure, the matter in the Australian media did not report how many”, it is understood this year, Australia’s private schools, the closure of nearly 10. Wang Chengbo source of information turned out to be the fight to go home phone calls. After Wang Chengbo will begin to receive calls from the Shanxi Province,
And they “Shanxi Association,” the other fellow also received a similar call.
After Wang Chengbo four inquiries, without exception, the closure of the schools were private schools, many of which are vocational education. It is understood that the closure of these schools still had a good reputation, a strong attraction for foreign students. He told reporters: the development of vocational education in recent years because of Australia’s immigration policy adjustment, especially the shortage of expertise in immigration policy, such as beauty salons, cook, design, hotel management, and students can be only one to two years graduation, then again as long as a G IELTS test will be able to get a green card. But two years, there has been a new immigration policy adjustments,
Makes a lot of students directed at immigrants difficult to obtain a green card, leading to new students, which in some private schools money can not keep up, leading to school closures.
Commissioned by the villagers accepted the phone, Wang Chengbo started helping a small student solve the problem. “Dad is very worried over there that they feel that their children did not rely on, here’s actually very easy to feel that just do not have to go to school.” When a reporter asked about how, like Tang Tang kind of like going to work when Wang Chengbo reluctantly said with a smile “like What do you think he can do so much work, even if the security of who is going to do to ensure this? Moreover, his studies not how did it begin? but I must be accountable to the parents to convey that, but there are some things every effort within its power running a bar. “He found his brother in Melbourne, school work,
Shanxi made a special trip to find a local school students and schools to talk about on their behalf.
At present, according to Wang Chengbo statistics, in this incident in Shanxi students out of school about 10, he and “Shanxi Association,” the other fellow is thinking approach, is also watching the Australian Government’s resettlement measures.
Study in Australia case of cold
In a press interview, Taiyuan Siu Cheng studied the consulting firm told reporters that Miss Lin Ying, Australia, was once a paradise for students in Shanxi Province, on the one hand the Australian study was inexpensive and easy to pass; the other hand, compared to other countries, study , Shanxi value of practical expertise in Australia, where many schools have set up.
“This year will be studying in Australia, another peak, but there is such a thing can be said to kill a stick, and now we recommend to customers, as long as one in Australia, immediately refused.” Lin said. Currently, closure of schools, is still the best way to transfer, although transfer may face a move out of cities, past credit problems such as non-recognition, but the educational income is the Australian Government’s three pillar industries of these small study Health speaking, the transfer is to reduce the loss of the best option.
The People’s Republic of China Consulate General in Sydney now explicitly proposed the development of deep concern about this incident and asked the Australian Government to make proper arrangements for school drop-outs. At the same time proposed for the current school if the students feel helpless, can go to consulate to seek the help of the Chinese government.