Indonesia lags in early childhood education
Data from Statistic Indonesia shows that only a measly 36.36 percent of Indonesian children attended pre-primary schools last year, putting the country far behind the regional…
EDUCATION
Ensure equity for girls in education
Activists and researchers call for increased investments in girls' education. Bangladesh has been no exception to this—it has achieved some milestones, mostly in terms of…
The first three residential halls of Dhaka University
As an educational institution founded more than a century ago — on 1 July 1921 — Dhaka University bears a rich heritage and a part of the legacy is carried by its student…
Flood damages 39 schools in Rangpur
According to locals and teachers, this has been a recurring issue that results in massive financial losses to the government and disrupts the education of hundreds of children.
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…
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 —…