“We don’t have any strict guidelines about those three topics,” Corry said. “But our staff will be told — explained by me — to tread lightly.”
Chao Yin Canada Group Inc. became a B.C.-registered company in 2016 with Yi Shuai Zhang its only listed director. It appears to have replaced Chaoyin International Education Group which also had Zhang as its sole director and was registered in 2014 and dissolved for failure to file documents in 2018., “Chaoyin emphasizes on its expansion in education sector while also diversifying its investment in other areas with its core spirit of ‘teaching, innovation, respect, and win-win.
Annual tuition rates for kindergarten to Grade 7 students at the new Chaoyin International School in Richmond will range from $15,000 to $23,000.The education group’s general manager is Zhang, who has a bachelor of education from the University of British Columbia, according to a Chinese business registry
Even before, Corry would likely have been aware of them as a high school principal in Coquitlam, which has one of the highest number of international students in B.C. and was the first Canadian school district to host a Confucius Institute. Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress passed legislation denying federal funding to universities and other post-secondary institutions that host the Confucius Institute unless they meet certain conditions. Those include the Confucius Institute agreeing to protect academic freedom, prohibit application of any foreign law on any campus and ceding full managerial authority to the host school’s administrators over hiring, course content and research grants.
I didn’t get a direct answer, only an emailed response that said: “The ministry has communicated its requirements that all course planning materials — including art, physical education and Mandarin — be developed and maintained in English.”
So who are the students who’ll be attending this school?