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On Sept. 18 and 19, 2018 Dipont Education celebrated the official opening of its two new Sino-British independent schools in Hangzhou and Wuxi, China.
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Ahead of the start of the school year, hundreds of new and returning teachers gathered together at Dipont Education’s annual conference for teachers.
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Oleksii (Alex) Khlobystin is from Ukraine and joins Dipont Education as an A-level mathematics teacher in our Nanjing Jinling High School international center.
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Dipont Education has officially started construction on a new American independent school, to be built in the city of Kunshan, to the west of Shanghai.
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Dipont Education international curriculum center principals gathered together at Hangzhou Foreign Language School to share information and discuss topics relevant to the successful running of their centers.
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Dipont Education’s partnership with King’s College School is the focus of this article from the Daily Telegraph, a major newspaper in the UK.
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Dipont Education’s partnership with King’s College School is mentioned in this news article about the UK’s relationship with China.
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Vanessa Cumbers, director of recruitment at Dipont Education, is quoted in this article in The Economist about international education in China.