Dongguan's police, education and human resources authorities on March 10 launched a 10-month campaign aimed at cracking down illegal foreign teachers among schools around the city.
The campaign, set to last to December this year, will target foreign teachers who do not have the appropiate visa and work permit as well as those kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools which hire foreign teachers without a certificate from the government. Language training schools will not be targeted in this crack down.
There are only 19 schools which have successfully applied for the certificate from the government to hire foreign teachers, and none of the kindergartens around the city have obtained the certificate, the education authority said.
Foreign teachers without the proper visa and work permit will be detained or fined according to the seriousness of the violation. For those serous cases, schools will be fined and those foreign teachers will be ordered to leave China within a time limit, according to the police authority.
(By Morvin Chow)
