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Q: What do you need to set up your own school?
Theoretical question:
You're looking to set up an English School,
1. What would you think as the minimum physical requirements, premises, rooms, air con, toilets, decor, etc.
2. What customer base, would you go for, why?
3. What would your prices be, low price high volume or high price low volume, why?
4. Location, city centre, suburbs, upmarket, downmarket?
5. Who would you 'speak' to to make things 'easier', who would you avoid?
Anything else you care to mention?
11 years 51 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
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money lots of it plus educational requirments certficates min 500 sq meters of space
if you want me to help you with your business plan it will cost you.
i have already thought abt it a lot.but most of my friends told me that its nt that easy as you think,and be a teacher in some private school is more better than it,yes you can earn money but also have a lot of problems,for example most of chinese peoples dont want to send their kids to a school which is newly opened.at the same time you have to register it with education department and also should have plenty of friends in that areas(chinese) ,according to my plan there are 6 main problems which are very difficult to solve for a foriegner who want to open a school even its a primary （小学·）school
flaire:
You should'v read stories of Yu Minhong who's the owner of New Oriental Training Center
May u get some ideas,jaja~
If you want to set up a school in a big city you would need an enormous reserve of cash and really high up connections which you as a foreigner won't have access to.
In a smaller up and coming city/town you might need between 150 to 250k dollars. Or convince a chinese investor to believe in you. Could probably make between 75 and140,000 dollars a year depending on your ambition.Not sure it would be worth the hassle of working 7 days a week for years
Marketing, rent, money to the right people. A cash reserve until your school breaks even. The biggest problem is having the connections. There is a far bigger emphasis on the need to network here in china than back home. Expect lots, of smoky chinese dinners with you picking up the tab say over 1000 dollars a month.
You need experience in education, to look aryan, fluent mandarin skills, a chinese partner you trust with your money. It's doable I think. The worry is you end up only making 40k a year after all the effort. That's happens a lot I hear
My wife bought one in her home county, for 38000. Entirely legal, existed since 2008. I'm not allowed to teach there, but I go there anyway to care for my young son. And I make an appearance in front of each class once a month. Even my boss in the city is aware of it, but he isn't too worried because it caters to a cheaper market, different location, and low-tech teaching materials.
To be honest, the whole school earns less than half of what my teaching salary in the city makes me, so it isn't too profitable. We don't really have good marketing; student numbers always gravitate around 60-80.
Legalities become easier to handle the farther you are from big cities. Everything's basically locked down legally (foreigners can't. non-locals can't in another county. must already have X students and teachers before gettign the license, though it makes no sense because then you'd have an illegal school). But once you invite the education department head to dinner, and sent hongbao to the right people, it gets done. Transferring the owner's name takes a year, and that process can't be sped up.
this post is 2 years old. By now the OP must have been back to his senses and either become a teacher in China or went back to his home nevertheless abandoning the idea of opening a school...
