The education ministry’s former top bureaucrat fired up the simmering Kake Gakuen scandal at a news conference Thursday by vouching for the authenticity of documents that suggest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swayed its decision to approve the opening of a new veterinary medicine department run by his friend at a university in Shikoku. The government flatly denied Abe was involved …
The figures from the Higher Education Statistics Authority, published today, show a 1% drop in first-year non-EU enrolments in 2015/16, with overall non-EU enrolments falling very slightly – by less than 1% – to total 310,575. “The UK could be doing much better than this” China remained far and away the biggest provider of non-EU students to UK higher education institutions, …
UK Education guide offers international students filtered search options based on metrics including tuition price, accommodation price, percentage of international students in the total student body and employability statistics. Co-founder Pat Moores said the site was created to help international students make more informed decisions when choosing to study in the UK. “Our aim is not to provide information about …
The Bergen Declaration, led by the European Students’ Union and the Norwegian students’ union, Norsk studentorganisasjon, lays out a set of joint principles for what education and student rights should look like. “The Bergen Declaration sets the foundations from which a global student movement can be shaped” “We believe that quality education should be free and inclusive for all, and our education …
The Minister of Education and Training, Phung Xuan Nha, has initially aimed this regulation at 61 universities, academies and colleges under the Ministry. Announced last month, the regulation will ensure that lecturers at universities hold their meetings in English, with students also required to give presentations and discussions in English. “It sends a very strong signal that English proficiency is …
The initiative, spearheaded with the aid of Delft university of generation within the Netherlands, also consists of EPFL in Switzerland, the Australian national college, the college of Queensland, the university of British Columbia and Boston college, and is about initially a pilot programme later this 12 months. “despite our seven hundred,000 newcomers, there are certain target groups that we have …
using video photos of the 2011 tsunami in Japan, Yuri van Geest, founder of think tank SingularityU, referred to as on educators to act before the rising tide of technological improvements. bringing up examples that already exist these days, consisting of voice recognition technology used by human aid departments, Geest stated technological development is transferring from the ice section, to …
Six universities around the world are developing a MOOC credit transfer system that would enable students to gain credit towards their degrees from online courses at other institutions. Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands is spearheading the MOOC credit transfer initiative. Photo: Flickr/IMBiblio. Beckie graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Japanese, during which she lived in …
The pace of technological developments is set to increase at an unprecedented rate in the next ten years, but how this will impact learning environments, skills training and access to education was discussed by futurists and education leaders at the StudyPortals Student of the Future conference this week. Dean Zvi Galil addresses the delegates at the conference. Photo: StudyPortals 23% …