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Vietnam seeks to boost educational cooperation with the UK

As many as 30 memorandums of understanding on education and training cooperation were signed between educational...
East Asia
Vietnam
15/02/2019

Update on transnational education (TNE) regulation in Indonesia

In 2016, the British Council published research exploring the Indonesian TNE environment and the models allowed by law...
East Asia
Indonesia
12/02/2019

Analysis of Chinese universities sending the most graduates overseas for postgraduate study in 2018

In January each year, Chinese universities release graduate outcomes reports showing the destinations of their bachelor...
East Asia
China
11/02/2019

Chiba University to make study abroad compulsory for all students from 2020

Chiba University has announced that study abroad will become a compulsory element of undergraduate and postgraduate...
East Asia
Japan
07/02/2019

Latest JASSO statistics show further growth in Japan’s short-term study abroad market

Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) has published the results of its latest survey of Japanese students...
East Asia
Japan
28/01/2019

HKUST to partner with UCL, Harvard and Stanford in establishing a new international medical research centre

In line with the Hong Kong Government’s budget plan to develop the city’s biomedical science industry, a memorandum of...
East Asia
Hong Kong SAR
24/01/2019

British Council and China's National Education Examinations Authority announce results of research linking IELTS and Aptis to China’s Standards of English Language Ability

The British Council and the National Education Examinations Authority under the Chinese Ministry of Education have...
East Asia
China
22/01/2019

Malaysia: Education Mandate 2019

Malaysia’s education minister, Dr. Maszlee Malik, had made his first education mandate announcement, outlining three...
East Asia
Malaysia
18/01/2019

Singapore launches Smart Nation Scholarship

The Singapore government is looking to nurture the next generation of technology professionals by launching a...
East Asia
Singapore
18/01/2019

Vietnamese universities set English as one of their admission criteria

Vietnamese universities started to include English as one of the criteria in their student enrolment plans for the 2019...
East Asia
Vietnam
17/01/2019

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