Confucius Institute banished from NSW schools in wake of "damning" report

Geordie Little

By Geordie Little
Published August 23, 2019

The NSW Department of Education has announced it will end its partnership with a controversial Chinese Government language program, amid concerns that it could enable ‘inappropriate foreign influence’.

RMIT University students at a 2010 Confucius Institute ceremony.

The Confucius Institute supports Chinese language classes in 13 NSW schools, in part by recruiting and paying the salary of ...

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