Noticias Asia

Education in India Trapped in numbers

Publicado: 21 octubre 2021

India/October 21, 2021/By: Daily Excelsior/Source: https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/ Prof. Rasal Singh A statement by Professor Rakesh Kumar Pandey, who teaches physics in Delhi University, has sparked a new controversy in the academia. He referred to the phenomenon of Kerala board giving 100% to its students in Class 12 as biased, and described it as a “conscious and […]

N. Korea bolsters ideological education in military following restart of inter-Korean hotline

Publicado: 20 octubre 2021

North Korean/October 20, 2021/By: Jeong Tae Joo/Source: https://www.dailynk.com/ Recently distributed materials claim that although North Korea possesses modern weaponry as a nuclear power, socialism “will collapse overnight like a water-logged wall” if authorities carelessly educate young soldiers North Korea may have restarted Monday the inter-Korean hotline Pyongyang unilaterally cut in August, but the North Korean […]

More People Learning Korean after ‘Squid Game’ TV Show

Publicado: 19 octubre 2021

Korea/October 19, 2021/Source: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/ A company offering online language-learning services says more people are learning Korean after the launch of a popular Korean TV show on Netflix. The language-learning company, Duolingo, reported the sharp increase in Korean learners. In Great Britain, 76 percent more people than usual signed up to learn Korean. In the U.S., […]

Azad India Foundation Empowers Girls Through Education

Publicado: 18 octubre 2021

India/October 18, 2021/By: Safira Schiowitz/Source: https://www.borgenmagazine.com/ Yuman Hussain was the first woman in her village to set out in pursuit of her vocation. Soon after she did so, in 1998, Hussain founded and became executive director of what would become the Azad India Foundation. The organization has pioneered women’s rights to education in 130 villages […]

China Education Stocks Jump on Support for Vocational Schools

Publicado: 14 octubre 2021

China/October 14, 2021/By: https://www.bloomberg.com/ Sector gets rare boost after private-tutoring clampdown China East Education, Yuhua Education among stocks Citi likes China’s support for vocational schools is breathing life into education stocks that have been battered by a crackdown on private tutoring businesses. Stocks ranging from training service providers to education consulting firms all soared in […]

Japan’s $90bn university fund struggles to draw talent despite size

Publicado: 13 octubre 2021

Japan/October 13, 2021/Kana Inagaki and Leo Lewis in Tokyo/Source: https://www.ft.com/ Japan’s university endowment fund, the world’s biggest with $90bn of capital, has managed to hire only a single fund manager with just months to go before its launch, despite enjoying the Established in a desperate attempt to make Japanese scientific research globally competitive, the fund’s failure to […]