Out, but perhaps not completely out
Loadsa 老外. My sources inform me that the programme's foreign backers have pulled out because they weren't getting kids from the programme, replete with the contents of mummy and daddy's capacious wallet, going to their fourth-rate institution. There's a surprise. Actually, the foreign backers were only in the programme because the institute in question was in financial difficulty a few years ago. They also never promoted themselves in the schools and since we no longer had anything to do with them, we weren't about to be doing that ourselves. In place of them, the school is getting some Cambridge-based programme (A-levels?) which is possibly like the one that they were getting at my school in Beijing just before I left. I assume that the teachers on this programme have to be accredited so that I couldn't switch from our programme to that one. Besides, if the salary I'm hearing is right, they're only being paid ¥20K (c. £1450) for the (academic) year whi