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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.

International education expo offers more choices

Educational organisations from South Africa, Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic will join Hong Kong's International...
East Asia
03/07/2013

Thai university to blanket the campus with wi-fi network

Chulalongkorn University (CU), Thailand has last week signed an agreement with the country’s leading operators to cover...
East Asia
03/07/2013

Australia gives Department of Education Php 8.4 billion project grant

The Australian government is granting the Philippines Php8.4 billion for a national program to address basic education...
East Asia
03/07/2013

US supports teacher training for K to 12 implementation

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) recently trained 20 chief trainers of the Department of Education (...
East Asia
03/07/2013

Admission scores for postgraduate programs in 2013

Nearly 1.76 million people signed up for the graduate school entrance exams in 2013, up by 104,000 from 1.66 million in...
East Asia
03/07/2013

Some young Chinese students encounter trouble in schools abroad

There are 23,000 Chinese students in private senior high schools in the US. The number was only 65 in 2005 and 4,503 in...
East Asia
03/07/2013

GCAS signs MoU with Thales Universite to support civil aviation training

The signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is in line with the Government of Abu Dhabi’s strategy to develop and...
Middle East & Africa
02/07/2013

Kuwait inks medicine scholarship agreement with the West Virginia University

Under the deal, three scholarships will be added as part of the ministry's programme for fostering the Kuwaiti medical...
Middle East & Africa
02/07/2013

Why do top scorers in the Gaokao often choose to go abroad?

It is estimated that the 60 per cent of the best-performing students will go abroad.
East Asia
28/06/2013

Agent training updates

To improve the quality and integrity of international education agents/advisors, especially those newly-joined...
East Asia
28/06/2013

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