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The latest education market news from our UK and local country staff and from selected external sources, focusing on issues affecting UK education, from changes to higher education policy and student visa procedures, to competitor analysis and media coverage.

China passes law on the management of foreign NGOs, but excludes educational activities

China passed a controversial foreign non-governmental organisations law in late April, increasing regulation and police...
East Asia
13/05/2016

National examination for scholarship to study overseas open to PhDs exclusively from 2016 onwards

The scholarship opportunity requires a national examination and is now open to PhDs exclusively, with the exception of...
East Asia
12/05/2016

Sri Lanka's Economic rise

The International Monetary Fund recently completed a review of the Sri Lankan economy which indicated an economic...
South Asia
10/05/2016

Vietnam’s Aviation Industry Boom: a Golden Opportunity for Budding Aviators

According to Vietnam Briefing e-newspaper, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) revealed that Vietnam has...
East Asia
10/05/2016

Huge jump in ‘good’ Dubai schools

10 out of the 16 outstanding schools follow the UK Curriculum according to the latest inspections by KHDA that covered...
Middle East & Africa
10/05/2016

Opportunities in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country in the world which presents an immense opportunity in terms of labour...
South Asia
09/05/2016

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus from Bangladesh encouraged students at Oxford University to imagine a new world and make it happen.

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus delivered the 150th Anniversary lecture of the Oxford Guild, the oldest student...
South Asia
09/05/2016

UK’s Open University and Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) collaborate under distance learning programme

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) invited a two member delegation from the world’s first Open Un
South Asia
09/05/2016

Japan becomes top destination for Vietnamese students

There were 38,882 Vietnamese students in Japan as of May 2015, an increase of 47.1 percent from 2014, according to...
East Asia
06/05/2016

Myanmar implements KG+12 starting AY 2016-17

Myanmar will start introducing the new Kindergarten curriculum in Academic Year 2016-17. This is the first step towards...
East Asia
06/05/2016

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