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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.

Philippine TVET agency partners with Autodesk to improve tech-voc education

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has entered into a three-year partnership with...
East Asia
06/06/2013

Joint Archaeological Research between Salahaddin and Barcelona Universities

The meeting participants discussed cooperation and coordination between the two universities in the field of...
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

Tourism to develop into a source of national revenue

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has until now conducted 30 workshops and training courses for improving the...
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

All Saudi health jobs to be nationalised in five years

Sources told English language Saudi Gazette that government agencies were currently working on ‘Saudisation’ of the...
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

More funds for Ashanti Education - Minister

Government has over the past four years placed a total of GH¢120 million into the development of education in Ashanti
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

Insead to double Abu Dhabi intake within four years

The graduate business school, which trains 500 professionals a year in the emirate, expects that number to grow to...
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

Nigeria inaugurates university entrepreneurial development scheme

In an effort to curtail the increasing unemployment, Nigeria’s Ministry of Trade and Investment has inaugurated the...
Middle East & Africa
06/06/2013

CHEd eyes revised college curriculum by 2016

CHEd has cut by half the number of GE subjects to just nine core subjects and three elective subjects, since some of...
East Asia
05/06/2013

Filipino seafarers’ accreditation at risk if maritime schools will not comply with ministry order

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ordered several schools to gradually phase out or immediately close their BS...
East Asia
05/06/2013

Most Chinese liberal arts students plan to leave US for China for jobs

According to a survey, only 16 per cent of graduates in the US got a job before 1 April .
East Asia
05/06/2013

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