Thailand tightens oversight of short-term study programs for foreign nationals
The move is to curb visa misuse, ensure transparency, and uphold education standards nationwide.
Education
What are robot chefs cooking up for South Korea’s struggling school kitchens?
Much-praised, much-loved Korean school meals wear out workers. Can automation be a fix?
Universities and hospitals get the largest multimillion-dollar donations in Singapore
In April, it was reported that Nanyang Technological University received $110 million from UOB and the Wee Foundation. National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of…
Affordable education and cultural ties fuel academic migration of Chinese scholars to Malaysia
While the PhD candidates expressed satisfaction at being able to work on their research topics in Malaysia, they lamented how their tertiary degrees are “valued less” than…
US government revokes Harvard’s right to enrol foreign students in major escalation
The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts quickly slammed the move as “unlawful” and said it would cause “serious harm” to both the campus and the country as a whole.
New programme launched aiming at ensuring safer journeys to schools across Vietnam
It aims to contribute to reducing traffic injuries and fatalities by developing recommendations for establishing criteria, models, standards and regulations for traffic-safe…
In Myanmar, 77 education workers killed, academic institutions bombed 560 times over past four years
Educational institutions (schools, etc.) have also been burned down 123 times, while education staff have been threatened 449 times.
Nepal’s school teachers reject education bill, threaten stronger protests
They oppose temporary teachers’ exclusion from internal competition, tough promotion rules, and transfer to local units.
More Seoul elementary students report depression, anxiety
The study pointed to several factors behind this, including stress from academics and peer-to-peer relationships, greater exposure to social media, and reduced sleep.
Hundreds of Yale-NUS books discarded in Singapore, sparking concerns among alumni over waste and loss
They see its as a waste of academic resources.