article_snippet: Now it seems the same is happening in state education.
article_snippet: Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said: 'Some state schools are now behaving like businesses and taking advantage of the voracious ambitions of Chinese and other overseas students. '
article_snippet: Chinese pupils are remarkably successful.
article_snippet: Whether it's because Chinese pupils are driven on by tiger mothers or a fear of job insecurity ...
article_snippet: Chinese pupils have the ambition and work ethic to get excellent exam results and enter our top universities.'
article_snippet: They academic results are fantastic too, especially in maths, science and economics — better than those of the British students.'
article_snippet: Of those, 19 per cent were from Hong Kong and 18 per cent were from mainland China.