News

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.

Business schools face challenges of technological advances

World leading business schools are looking to branch out and are currently searching for new ways to provide education...
East Asia
17/10/2014

MOE publishes majors with low employment rate, Beijing economics and journalism

On 13th October, the Ministry of Education (MOE) published a list of majors with low employment rates upon graduation.
East Asia
17/10/2014

Generation UK scholars and interns welcomed to China

The second cohort of UK scholars and interns arriving in China on the British Council’s Generation UK programme was...
East Asia
13/10/2014

SPM forecast results can no longer be used for admission into pre-university programmes

The education ministry had issued a circular to higher education institutions at the end of September that SPM forecast...
East Asia
10/10/2014

Australian universities continue to acknowledge Chinese college entrance exam scores

Australian Minister for Education Christopher Pyne said during an interview at the Australian Embassy in Beijing that...
East Asia
10/10/2014

Chinese students welcome in France

France is expecting more Chinese students to study in universities in France. The number of Chinese students was 15,000...
East Asia
10/10/2014

New Joint Visa Application Centre opens in Astana

There was an announcement during the official opening ceremony of the Joint Visa Application Centre of Switzerland and...
Central Asia
09/10/2014

Malaysia working in collaboration with Australia's Openlearning to offer online courses

Malaysia has targets to offer at least 15% of courses online by next year and increasing to 30% by 2020.
East Asia
09/10/2014

Singapore Law Minister warns of surge in lawyers

At a recent law conference, Singapore’s Law Minister K. Shanmugam highlighted that Singapore could soon have more...
East Asia
08/10/2014

Hong Kong Electoral Reform – what are the potential implications?

In the last few days Hong Kong students have begun a widespread boycott of classes in protest against Beijing’s stance...
East Asia
29/09/2014

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