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Eager to wow her pals, Cassandra then mastered wakesurfing while hitting a tennis ball on Stave Lake in Mission, British Columbia, Canada, while another clip shows her sipping coffee while reading a magazine.
The reforms appear to be part of broader measures to control what is learnt in the classroom, coming after China last year banned foreign teaching materials and ordered the president's political ideology, Xi Jinping Thought, to be taught in al
The rules -- which also forced tutoring platforms to turn their businesses non-profit and barred some classes during weekends and holidays -- are framed by Beijing as necessary to alleviate stress on overworked students and reduce educat
Although new policies allow families to have as many as three children, China's birth rate dropped to 7.52 births per 1,000 people in 2021, the lowest since the National Bureau of Statistics began recording the data in 1949.
Foreign language teaching firms had long tapped into a vast demand for English in China, where armies of parents are eager to get their kids ahead in a cut-throat education system in which a single exam can determine a life's t
'However, the early indications are that this sharp increase is continuing and we will approach rates of approximately 500 per 100,000 in the next few days. This rapid increase is mirrored in the rates in our children and young people.
LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - British online fashion retailer ASOS reported an 89% drop in 2021-22 profit and forecast a first half loss in its new financial year, blaming significant volatility in the macroeconomic environment.
"I understand wanting to take pressure off parents... but not why it's been so sudden and harsh," said 44-year-old Josti, bloomington summer camps a former elementary school teacher who switched to full-time online tutorin
Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.
Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.
The group, whose shares have fallen 80% this year, made adjusted profit before tax of 22 million pounds ($24.9 million)in the year to August 31 2022, in line with guidance that was lowered last month and down from the pandemic boosted 193.6 million pounds made in 2020-21.
Brighton and Hove councillor Hannah Clare, chair of the Children, Young People & Skills Committee, said in a letter to Mr Williamson: 'Our published data - up to December 27 - shows that the rate in Brighton & Hove has increased by more than 500 per cent since we came out of lockdown at the beginning of December.
China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.
At its annual general meeting in Mumbai, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) also approved a women's Indian Premier League, which is likely to begin in March next year, after the men's event proved a massive hit.
The Education Secretary now needs to apply some common sense, make a full U-turn, and delay reopening all schools in England until proper safeguards are in place. 'As infection rates rise, we need a consistent approach, not a postcode lottery.
Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.
SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.
Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) also piled in, with the group's general secretary Geoff Barton saying: 'It is very clear that the Government's plans for the start of the spring term are untenable.
He accused successive governments of failing to build onshore manufacturing capacity for medical products, with Oxford/AstraZeneca counting on outsourced companies to help create doses, such as Halix in the Netherlands, Cobra Biologics in Staffordshire and Oxford Biomedica.
Meanwhile Sam Williamson, a headteacher in Bristol, told BBC Breakfast her secondary school was prepared for the rollout of mass testing as supplies are due to arrive on Monday, after senior staff had 'three or four' days off for Christmas.
<img src="https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1217139798/de/foto/skyline-der-innenstadt-mit-u-bahn-station-und-rathaus-cleveland.jpg?b=1&s=170x170&k=20&c=j-pajcZPcgC5NNPQ_jo1SGVLFoxC528exacX03Q7XQI="; style="max-width:420px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />Dr Mary Bousted, the union's joint general secretary, said: 'Whilst we are calling on the Government to take the right steps as a responsible union we cannot simply agree that the Government's wrong steps should be implemented.