Top high schools send students abroad

Almost 300 students at the four top high schools in Beijing have given up plans to sit college entrance exams in favor of studying overseas for the international experience.

Su Jianhua, director of the International Office of the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, a top school in Beijing, told METRO they have two overseas study classes with a total of 91 students.

The capital's other three top high schools - No Four, No Eight and No 11 high schools - also have overseas study classes, totaling 200 students in all.