Sunday, 10 March 2013

Pakistani students middle class fixes sights on China

Islamabad

 

When Misbah Rashid taught Chinese 30 years ago, few signed up. Today her department has more than 200 Pakistani students, increasingly attracted by the prospect of an affordable education and a job.

 

For decades, a foreign education was the preserve of the richest who could afford the stratospheric expense of sending their progeny to Oxford or Harvard to mingle with an international Westernised elite.

 

But Rashid’s pupils are mostly

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