Beijing suspends for-profit student tours

Beijing’s primary and secondary schools were ordered by the city’s municipal education authorities to suspend any overseas study tours through for-profit groups after the deaths of three Chinese students in an Asiana Airlines plane crash in the US two weeks ago, South China Morning Post reported. Beijing Municipal Commission of Education stipulated that schools should not allow junior pupils at primary schools to join any international exchange programs. For higher-grade students in primary schools and those from secondary schools, all such overseas trips should be approved by district education authorities at least six months in advance.