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• Shenzen’s Educational Experiment
  In 2010, the South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC) opened its doors in Shenzhen, the Special Economic Zone bordering Hong Kong. SUSTC is the culmination
• International Education in Syria & The Middle East
  Syria is a useful case study for the challenges faced by students in many Arab nations across the Middle East. Amid the current media attention on the country’s upheaval
• What is the Gaokao?
  Public Radio’s Marketplace is doing a series this week on China’s Gaokao test. The Gaokao (short for “High School Test”) is China’s equivalent of
• Crossroads in Wuhan
  In 2006, I moved to the city of Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, to teach graduate-level English classes at the China University of Geosciences (Zhongguo Dizhi Daxue, often
• Easter Sunday Detention in Beijing, China
  On Easter Sunday April 24, 2011, dozens of members of Beijing’s Shouwang Church were detained for trying to gather at the site of a banned Easter service. Easter services ac
• Announcing the Cambridge Institute Blog
  On behalf of The Cambridge Institute, I would like to be the first to welcome you to our newly established Cambridge Institute Blog. Welcome! In accordance with our mission, w
• Announcing the new website!
  Welcome to the Cambridge Institute of International Education.  We are an educational consulting organization, specialized in helping U.S. private schools to build their prof