Got to wonder what the naffing use of Chinese is to high school students these days in the UK anyway. At the rate it is going, Vietnam is growing faster than China, shouldn't british high schoolers be learning Vietnamese, or even some Hindi or learning about how to do business with India (also growing much faster than China, and they have a very good I.T. base, not to mention that best left behind of colonial hangovers, the English language). Manufacturing is moving out of China into Vietnam and elsewhere, prices going up, and a looming property bubble in China.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-28/why-india-will-keep-growing-faster-than-china

This is from well over a year ago....nowt against those who think Chinese should be taught in the UK, and students who want to learn it, but I reckon the focus should be on learning Vietnamese, and learning Indian Business Culture and perhaps one of the major spoken dialects over there. No good if Mr. Wangs factories are all shut by the time they leave high school, and he has no rags to sell, or english teaching jobs are still at 6,000 rmb a month and require a flaming Masters degree. No, no, focus your studies on the subcontinent and go east young man.