Beijing’s middle schools to drop sport, art quotas

Beijing Municipal Commission of Education announced on Thursday that middle schools in the capital will stop enrolling students because of their art or sports talent from this year.

Currently, a certain number of students with talent in such fields as sports and arts can be enrolled into key middle schools, which are usually difficult to get into. The city authority decided to stop this mechanism and distribute education resources more fairly.

Beijing will also gradually give more than half of the admission quota of the key high schools to normal junior middle school students from this year to 2021, the commission said.

Beijing will also add 30,000 quotas to solve the difficulties in entering preschools this year.