Buxiban
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Taiwanese students studying English in an evening cram school
Buxiban (simplified Chinese: 补习班; traditional Chinese: 補習班; pinyin: bǔxíbān) are cram schools in Taiwan and Mainland China.
It's a traditional belief that parents should send their children to all kinds of cram schools in order to compete against other talented children. Therefore, most children in Taiwan or Mainland China have a schedule packed with all sorts of cram school lessons.
Buxiban teach a variety of subjects, including math, Chinese characters, and English as a foreign language. Studying at several buxiban is widely perceived as necessary to get a high-enough college entrance exam score to attend prestigious universities in Taiwan such as National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University.
See also
- Education in Taiwan
- Hagwon in Korea: 학원 hagwon
- Juku in Japan: 学習塾 gakushuu juku
- Cram schools in Hong Kong: 補習社 bou2 zaap6 se5
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