For your easy reference, please find below a selection of key highlights on China’s education sector from the previous month:

• China has announced plans to boost the development of football, with ambitions to train 50,000 football coaches by 2020;
• China’s Ministry of Education has set up an online service system for China-foreign education cooperation programmes;
• Beijing Education Commission has launched a new ‘Overseas Development’ initiative to foster top talents, with the UK as a target partner;
• Chinese degrees in the UK have seen a 30 per cent increase in enrolments, amid a sharp decline in the overall number of students studying for modern foreign language degrees.

For further details on the above and other news, please view the full summary.