South Korean med schools expect 1,500+ new admission slots next year
Meanwhile, five medical schools will likely start their first day of school next month, with students showing little signs of willingness to return and as medical professors are…
Education
Bangladeshi schools, colleges: A reopening that defies heatwave and logic too
The reopening of educational institutions amid the heatwave was marred by two teachers' deaths and dozens of students becoming sick.
Singapore and Estonia can share insights on the use of AI in schools: Estonian minister
Kristina Kallas, Estonia’s Minister of Education and Research, said both countries are open to AI and want to know the opportunities that are there including using AI as an…
Why this tutor teaches for free
Frustrated math tutor quits tutoring for pay, discovers path to mutual growth through free lessons with those who choose to learn.
First Covid, now heat: Online schooling returns to the Philippines
The shift raises fears that more extreme weather in the years to come could deepen educational inequalities.
Philippine army checking implications of increasing Chinese students in Cagayan region
Chester Cabalza, a University of the Philippines professor and a native of Cagayan, said some of the mainland Chinese students in Cagayan are reportedly shelling out P2 million to…
Nepal to crack down on teachers engaged in partisan politics
The ruling was issued to stop school teachers from contesting in different levels of elections of the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML in the run-up to the parties’ conventions.
Primary and middle school students in Mongolia to have milk 3 times a week
The program will be implemented in phases starting May 1. In the first phase, 19,300 primary and middle school students of 8 schools will be included.
Amid schools’ expansion, Pakistan to declare education emergency
PM Shehbaz vowed to replicate his idea of free education to children of poor and deserving families by establishing Daanish Schools in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan,…
Hot weather prompts 5,800 Philippine schools to switch to online classes
These schools have implemented alternative delivery modes that include asynchronous and online classes that allow students to join their class from home.