A Chinese government-funded language and culture program will be removed from NSW public schools and replaced with one run by the NSW Department of Education.

The Confucius Classroom program, run in 13 NSW schools, had been paid for by Chinese government agency Hanban, and employed teaching assistants that were vetted by the Chinese government for "good political quality" and a love of "the motherland".

NSW Department of Education is the only government department in the world that hosts a Confucius Institute. Credit:7News

While a NSW Department of Education review into the program did not "discover any evidence of actual political influence being exercised", it found there were “a number of specific factors that could give rise to the perception that the Confucius Institute is or could be facilitating inappropriate foreign influence in the department".

"The primary concern is the fact that the NSW Department of Education is the only government department in the world that hosts a Confucius Institute, and that this arrangement places Chinese government appointees inside a NSW government department.