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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.

The number of Chinese studying abroad reached 413,900 in 2013

About 413,900 Chinese went to study abroad in 2013, and 353,500 returned, up 3.58 percent and 29.53 percent...
East Asia
24/02/2014

Education experts suggest MOET to remove the floor-mark mechanism

Vietnamese students are currently admitted to a university based on their university entrance exam results, which...
East Asia
24/02/2014

Spanish Ingenieros Técnicos are Equivalent to UK Bachelor degree

Until recently UK NARIC recommended they were equivalent to BTEC Level 5 qualifications. After a long fight, a full...
Europe
24/02/2014

Britain sends experts to China for raising maths teaching standards

Britain will send experts to east China's Shanghai to learn the city's experience in mathematics teaching in an attempt...
East Asia
21/02/2014

Britain sees huge increase in design students from China

Creative and design studies has become the second most popular program for Chinese students in British universities,...
East Asia
21/02/2014

Country's rich sending children abroad

The Chinese super rich are banking on foreign education for their teenage children as an investment. Going overseas for...
East Asia
21/02/2014

UAE tops regional education list, Unesco study shows

The UAE tops a list of Arab countries regarding the ratio of inbound versus outbound students, says the Unesco...
Middle East & Africa
19/02/2014

Easy to study abroad and get a job in Russia for Chinese students

There are about 25,000 Chinese students studying in Russia at present. According to the China-Russia Cultural Exchange...
East Asia
19/02/2014

A university in Southern Thailand striving to become an education hub in ASEAN

Prince of Songkla University has received a budget of about 190 million baht in the 2014 fiscal year to carry out six...
East Asia
19/02/2014

Approved UAE distant learning universities

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has approved the list of e-learning universities to ensure the...
Middle East & Africa
17/02/2014

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