One-third of new students at Korea’s ‘SKY’ universities are from Seoul
The percentage of incoming students from small and medium-sized cities at these universities was 30.2 per cent, which is 11.1 percentage points lower than the average for all…
EDUCATION
AI, tech jobs easing out traditional work- Philippine education commissioner
“We are retraining and upskilling our graduates for new kinds of jobs emerging. So robotics, big data, all of these digital transformation specialists. These are the courses…
PISA results mirror Philippine education’s lost days, ‘grave crisis’
While class suspensions are imperative, especially when disasters strike, the almost three months of learning that were lost in school year 2023-2024 are already “symptoms of…
Over 90 Hong Kong schools have used new AI app for essay correction
The application, called the Chinese Writing Wizard, can also automatically produce practical writing questions and reference essays suitable for this year’s Hong Kong Diploma of…
Workshop on AI guidance toolkit for schools launched in Brunei
The workshop represents a significant milestone in advancing initiatives under Brunei's Ministry of Education's Digital Transformation Plan.
AI scores high in China’s ‘gaokao’ language tests, low in math
Researchers from the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory had six open-source AI models, as well as GPT-4o — the latest version rolled out by leading company Open AI —…
South Korea to expand visa, job options for foreign students
In a bid to plug job vacancies across key industries here, the government plans to allow foreign students who graduate in Korea to apply for E-9 nonprofessional employment visas,…
Bhutan to hire 100 expatriate STEM teachers next month
There is currently a shortage of 1,110 STEM teachers, including 479 in Mathematics, 241 in ICT, 193 in Physics, and 197 in Chemistry across 499 public schools.
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Singapore’s 15-year-old students score top marks in OECD’s creative thinking test
Students from South Korea, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, and Finland took the next few top positions out of 63 education systems.