The Mail on Sunday reports that the government is shutting down Confucius Institutes - which provide UK schools with Chinese-language teachers. It says the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, has agreed to the move, on the condition that the teachers are replaced by staff from Taiwan. According to the paper, there is "unease about the extent to which the tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party could be reaching into classrooms", after a parliamentary researcher was arrested on suspicion of spying for Beijing.

Source: The Times September 17, 2023 16:34 UTC