Scandals take sheen off int'l schools (2)

The Beijing Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs told Xinhua's The Globe magazine they had to ask for assistance from Chinese embassies in individual countries if they want to check a foreigner's criminal record, as it is extremely hard to get access to such information once the foreigner has legally entered China.

A member of staff with the Nanjing Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs confirmed that the Jiangsu provincial education authority didn't require foreign teachers to provide a criminal record check as part of an overall individual background investigation.

In the wake of the child sex scandals in Beijing and Nanjing, the State Administration of Foreign Experts urged local foreign experts bureaus to work more closely with local public security and education departments in order to improve the supervision of foreign teachers hired by training institutions and primary and middle schools.

Increasing affluence coupled with hopes of a possible future foreign college education has inspired many Chinese parents to send their children to international schools in search of the best possible education. The schools themselves are often just part of the story, with property developers, mindful of increasing levels of affluence, using the promise of international schools as bait with which to tempt eager parents. It was reported that 30 apartments were sold in just one month in Jiangsu Province's Nanjing City after a developer advertised that a famous international school would be built in the community.

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