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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.

High school students’ lack of career orientation making education loose track of the Government’s human resource development

A survey by the Vietnam Education Science Institute has found out that 70 percent of high school students do not...
East Asia
23/05/2012

Vietnam blacklists unauthorized training at universities and institutes

Seven Vietnamese education institutions have been forced by the Ministry of Education and Training to stop unauthorized...
East Asia
23/05/2012

The University of Texas grants high school diplomas to students in Vietnam

This is the first on-line high school programme in Vietnam jointly run by the University of Texas’ Online High School...
East Asia
23/05/2012

New Culture Minister expects culture to play a role in Taiwan’s education

President Ma Ying-jeou and Culture Minister Lung Ying-tai jointly inaugurated the Ministry of Culture in Taipei on 21...
East Asia
22/05/2012

Technical and vocational schools are to receive more government funding

State Councilor Liu Yandong announced recently that the education budget will increase this year by 580 billion yuan...
East Asia
18/05/2012

Amount of overseas education consulting companies is increasing

The amount of Chinese students studying abroad has caused an increase in the amount of education consulting companies,...
East Asia
18/05/2012

New breed of private higher education institutions in Malaysia

With more autonomy awarded to public universities and with decreased funding from the government, public universities...
East Asia
17/05/2012

Vietnam high quality education for all by 2020

A World Bank report which presents an provides an in-depth analysis into Vietnam's primary and secondary education...
East Asia
16/05/2012

Education Authorities from UK and Spain meet to resolve the issues of mutual recognition and right of establishment

On 22 May a group of UK and Spanish Government representatives will meet in Madrid to try to resolve some long-standing...
Europe
15/05/2012

Vietnam stresses need to reform education

All Vietnamese university will switch to credit-based programmes by 2015.  This is under an action programme for the...
East Asia
15/05/2012

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