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4 avril 2019

Australia should start planning for universal tertiary education

Australia is often characterised as having a mass higher education system. In fact, it could be called near-universal. According to the 2016 Census, 56% of Australians aged 15 years and over – 9.6 million people – hold a post-school qualification, up from 46% in 2006. More...

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3 avril 2019

We asked five experts: should Australia lower the voting age to 16?

But decisions made by elected governments – especially in areas such as education, health and energy – impact young people too. Legal and political voices have long called for Australia to lower the voting age to 16. After all, people under 18 can leave school, get a job, drive a car and pay taxes. More...

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3 avril 2019

What the next government needs to do to tackle unfairness in school funding

School funding debates in Australia are complex and messy. Stakeholders routinely complain about being hard done by. But the real unfairness is that state schools get less government funding than governments themselves say the schools need, and will continue to do so. More...

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2 avril 2019

Compromising Conference Locations

By Elizabeth Redden. Members of Asian studies group debate whether to continue holding conferences in Asia after India barred Pakistanis from participating in a conference in New Delhi. More...

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2 avril 2019

The Complicated Politics of Chinese Students Abroad

By Elizabeth Redden. Panelists at Asian studies conference discuss the dynamics that accompany large influxes of Chinese students abroad. More...

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2 avril 2019

Organizer: Chinese Officials Sought to Cancel Event

By Elizabeth Redden. Chinese officials pressured a human rights institute affiliated with Concordia University, in Montreal, to cancel a talk involving a Uighur activist, according to an organizer of the event, Canada Radio International reported. The event proceeded as scheduled despite the pressure. More...

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2 avril 2019

Asian Studies Group Dismayed Over Mass Detentions of Uighurs

By Elizabeth Redden. The Board of Directors of the Association for Asian Studies on Thursday published a statement decrying the detention of at least 800,000 Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in political “re-education” centers in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. More...

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2 avril 2019

Report on Tokyo Medical U and Donors' Relatives

By Scott Jaschik. A new report from Tokyo Medical University admits that there is evidence that the institution helped applicants who were related to donors, The Japan Times reported. More...

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31 mars 2019

Popularity of online education grows rapidly in China

China saw rapid growth in online education last year, with the number of users of such services rising 29.7 percent year on year to 201 million, accounting for 24.3 percent of total Internet users, according to a statistical report on Internet development. More...

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13 mars 2019

A Conversation on Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Conversation on Learning
Informal conversation covering the range of learning 2.0 Presentation by Stephen Downes.

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Another photo from Sydney. Stephen Downes, Flickr, March 31, 2009 [Link] [Tags: Flickr, Australia] [Comment]. More...

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