CANBERRA Cheap Nike Air Max Deluxe , March 31 (Xinhua) -- New Australian data shows China' s rising middle class is increasingly sending their children to Australian high schools.
Data from the Department of Education and Training on Tuesday showed secondary school enrollments of Chinese teenagers in 2014 rose by almost 20 percent on the previous year's figures.
Almost 4,300 new enrollments took the total number of enrolled Chinese students at public and private high schools to 8,386 last year, up from 7,447 in 2013.
Australia is an education destination for many Chinese, with Chinese citizens making up 26 percent of all international students at Australia last year.
Indian students were second Cheap Nike Air Max 93 , making up 11 percent of the 583, 000 enrollments across all Australian institutions, with Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand all contributing around 4.5 percent each.
Gaining a pathway to Australian universities, as well as better English education, had families choosing Australia Cheap Nike Air Max Axis , according to Dr. Minglu Chen, a lecturer at the University of Sydney's China Studies Center.
"This is what we could expect from China's growing economy, which is at the moment the second largest economy in the world, which actually also has a growing middle class," Chen told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Monday. "Australia is not far from China. They are one of the most important Asia- Pacific neighbors.
Reasons for the rise have been attributed to lighter visa restrictions, Australian education ranking well on international scales and a weakening Australian dollar Cheap Nike Air Max 120 , which has lost 25 percent of value against the U.S. dollar in two years.
Despite the dollar drop, the cost of sending children to Australian schools remains high.
Chinese parents pay about 10,000 U.S. dollars per year for their children to study at public schools, while the cost of studying at a private school can be around three times as much.
LONDON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- After taking China by storm, dancer Fenfen Huang is to bring a Chinese Gangnam-style dance to the streets of Britain.
Huang Cheap Nike Air Max Fury , the artistic director of the award-winning cultural charity organization China Pearl, has recruited internet sensation Shaun Gibson to help her bid to set a record for the highest number of flash-mob dancers to perform outside of China.
Shaun is typically English, from a small northern salt-mine town and a graduate from the University of Liverpool.
But when his own version of Xiao Ping Guo (Little Apple) was posted on internet sites in China, it attracted more than 20 million views.
It has made him more recognizable to Chinese people in Britain than to his own country folk.
Huang's bid will take place in one of the main public squares in Liverpool city center on Saturday.