Many employers use education benefits to attract, retain, and develop employees.
The former is by far more prevalent than the latter. In our most recent compensation and benefits survey of China, more than 50 per cent of representative offices and wholly foreign-owned enterprises offered some type of education assistance programme to employees. Education assistance for employee's children usually takes the form of entrance patronage or scholarship funds. Less than 20 per cent of companies provide this type of benefit. Some companies do not have a formal policy but rather a discretionary one for employees they are trying to retain or develop.