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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.

Ministry of Education will not drop key projects

China’s Ministry of Education has issued a statement denying rumours that it will abolish Projects 211 and 985, which...
East Asia
20/11/2014

First Quality Report on Engineering Education in China published

The Assessment Centre of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Aeronautics &...
East Asia
20/11/2014

The US extends validity of student visas to five years

On 10th November, US President Barack Obama delivered a keystone speech during the APEC summit, in which he disclosed...
East Asia
17/11/2014

University President Roundtable Meeting (Shenzhen) to improve quality of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools

The "University President Roundtable Meeting (Shenzhen) and the Fifth National Annual Conference for Chinese-Foreign...
East Asia
17/11/2014

Spring national college entrance exam open to grade three students of senior high schools for the first time

On 7th November, Shanghai released the pilot spring national entrance exam and enrolment plan among local ordinary...
East Asia
17/11/2014

Vietnam’s first Centres for Education Quality Assessment launched

Vietnam’s first two Centres for Education Assessment (CEA) under the Vietnam National Universities (VNU) in Hanoi and...
East Asia
17/11/2014

Highest unemployment rate for educated workforce underlying skill mismatch

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported on Wednesday that the most educated section of the Indonesian workforce...
East Asia
11/11/2014

UAE holds No. 2 spot in the Gulf in number of students studying in the UK

Over 2,369 visa applications from the UAE between June and August 2014, compared to 1,511 in the same period in 2013....
Middle East & Africa
11/11/2014

5 million euro grant for Erasmus Plus National in Jordan

Erasmus Plus national program this year in order to develop higher education and teaching in universities.
Middle East & Africa
10/11/2014

British Council reveals research findings on Transnational Education in Sri Lanka

Taking yet another step to demonstrate our thought leadership in Higher Education and reinforcing the links between UK...
South Asia
10/11/2014

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