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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.

More than 1.5 million graduates from Sino-foreign joint programmes

According to officials speaking at the China-foreign Cooperation University President Forum held in Ningbo in late...
East Asia
04/05/2015

Coursera enters online vocational education training market in China

Coursera, the world’s largest MOOC platform, has announced that it will jointly launch MOOC activities in China with...
East Asia
04/05/2015

Chinese Education Minister Yuan Guiren stresses the importance of art education

In the recent speech, Chinese Education Minister Yuan Guiren stressed the significance of developing art education and...
East Asia
30/04/2015

China’s Ministry of Education encourages innovation in open online courses

China’s Ministry of Education recently issued a document encouraging more colleges and universities to run online open...
East Asia
30/04/2015

Chinese domestic university admissions in 2015: fewer gaokao candidates, more specialist courses, and other major changes

Several Chinese provinces have now announced the number of candidates that have registered for this year’s gaokao, or...
East Asia
30/04/2015

First steps on academic collaborations between Foreign Educational Institutions announced

The UGC has set certain guidelines for promotion and maintenance of standards for academic collaborations between
South Asia
30/04/2015

Malaysian universities fail to make global list of fastest rising universities

Malaysian universities have failed to make the Times Higher Education (THE) list of the world’s seven fastest-rising...
East Asia
29/04/2015

El País Spanish University Ranking

A ranking of Spanish Universities by El País which could help your decision when looking for a local partner in Spain
Europe
27/04/2015

Malaysia Education Blueprint 2015-2025 (Higher Education) Launched

Malaysia’s commitment to being a world-class knowledge economy – and a regional education hub – received a boost this...
East Asia
27/04/2015

New agenda combines job training and coursework

The government is planning to introduce a new programme that would integrate job training and academics.
East Asia
22/04/2015

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