just got an email from www.yunnanmandarinchineseschool.com/index.html
they DO NOT plan to raise prices

So this Mr. Liu guy says very clearly that it is the Government requiring this price increase. So I emailed him back with the above information about education laws provided by user iliveinkm. I look forward to seeing his response to that.

after emailing Kunming Mei's Mandarin School, I received this email in reply

Next semester according to the goverment's policy all the Chinese language training school in Kunming have to raise the fees,the goverment have set a bottom line of the fee,and any schools which not fellow the price should be fined.

But now in Kunming Mei's Mandarin School the semester fee is as same as before before 1st Sep,if students regist in our school and pay the fee of next semester before 1st September,we charge the fee as before, so it is a great chance to regist in our school now.
After 1st September,I am sorry to say that all the school should charge the fee the goverment asked if we don't want to be revoked license .

Best Regards.

Mr Liu

So I've also forwarded this onto the person who contacted me saying they're a reporter and looking into the matter.

Also, I put a little rant on one of the forums at in.kunming.cn/

So i get an email from someone saying they're a reporter and going to look into this at the relevant offices. So as much info as I can email him the better.

can we get a list of which schools are threatening the increase? I know for sure Dong Fang.

KEATS said they will not increase the fee.