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The East Asia Round-up – a summary of recently announced opportunities and market news – 28 May to 11 June 2021

The East Asia round-up presents a summary of recently announced opportunities and market news from across the region. It highlights opportunities to work with the Singapore Academy of Law and showcases recent education headlines from Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Opportunity: Inviting Expressions of Interest from UK institutions to collaborate with the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) to develop training content for legal and allied legal professionals in Singapore and in the UK

The Singapore Academy of Law is seeking partnerships with UK institutions to collaborate on this project. This is an initial initiative launched by SAL with an aim to support legal and associate professionals with continued professional development and capacity building. For details on how to participate click this link.

Market news: Indonesia Education Scholarships - the latest updates from Indonesia Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology

The Indonesian Ministry of Education is known as Kemendikbud Ristek (Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology). The Kemendikbud provide the Indonesia Scholarships Programme (BPI) - these scholarships are for undergraduate postgraduate doctoral and non-degree levels. Recently announced scholarships have categories that may be available for applicants to international universities. For complete details click here.

Market news: Vietnam National Government Scholarship aims at 7,600 PhD and Master lecturers by 2030

The Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam is implementing ‘Programme 89’ to improve the capacity of the higher education sector. Programme 89 sets a goal for the next 10 years to train 7300 lecturers from Vietnamese higher education institutions with doctoral degrees, and over 300 lecturers in the Culture, Arts, Physical Training and Sports sectors with master’s degrees. To read full details click here.

Market news: A record high of 15 Malaysian universities qualified for THE Asia Rankings 2021

15 Malaysian universities have qualified for the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings in 2021. This is much higher in comparison to 8 from last year and is a significant milestone for Malaysian institutions in keeping with strengthening of Malaysia as an international education hub. For full details click here.