By Beckie Smith. South Korea’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has announced plans to open up the market further to international providers by easing restrictions on foreign investors and creating an international education hub in Songdo International Business District just outside Seoul in Incheon. More...
By Andrys Onsman. The Australian newspaper has trumpeted that the Premier of South Australia’s call for that state’s three public universities to consider merging had been ‘rebuffed’. Before considering the merit or otherwise of such a merger, it would be wise to find out what the Premier actually said, and the context in which it was said. And, in which media outlet the issue was reported. Read more...
By Trevor Cobbold. The OECD has issued a damning verdict on education policies that promote competition between schools. Its latest PISA in Focus brief says that the PISA international test data show that more competition has failed to improve student results and has increased social segregation between schools.
"Across countries and economies, performance is unrelated to whether or not schools have to compete for students ... Competition among schools is related to greater socio-economic segregation among students." Read more...
By Lee Yen Mun. A pass in English will be made a compulsory at public universities so that graduates can communicate effectively, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said a graduate's employability "is all about the confidence to communicate in English."
"Multi-national companies don't just want qualified (graduates) but they want ambassadors who have the ability to communicate. More...
By . Nalanda University in Bihar's Rajgir district started its first academic session on Monday, nearly 800 years after the ancient education institution was destroyed. Students attended four sessions on the first day, 9am to 1.30pm.
"The students had a chance to explore the neighbourhood during their three-day orientation programme earlier," vice-chancellor Gopa Sabharwal told TOI. The first batch of the university is being called the 'Nalanda Pioneers'.
By Kang Hyun-kyung. Professor Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, was optimistic about the competitiveness of Korean higher education, considering Korean universities' upward march in recent international university rankings.
"Korean universities are relatively young," the British chemist said during an interview with The Korea Times on Tuesday at the Grand Ambassador Hotel in Seoul. "If you look at rankings of universities that are younger than 50 years old, you will find Korean universities doing well." More...
By Tim Dodd. Chinese school students in Australia do better in maths than children in the world’s top performing schools in Shanghai, casting doubt on the widely held assumption that teaching methods in Chinese schools are superior. A new study has found that students of Chinese background in Australian schools scored an average 615 in maths, compared to 600 for Shanghai students, in the 2009 OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test. which compares 15-year-olds. In contrast, the average maths score for all students in Australian schools in the test was 514, well below what Chinese students scored in both Australia and Shanghai. More...
By Beckie Smith. Vietnam’s second planned partner university with Japan has been given the green light by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. The nonprofit Tokyo Vietnam Medical University, part-funded by Japan’s Waseda Health Sciences Education Corporation, will be located in the northern Vietnamese province of Hung Yen. More...
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