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Education in South-Eastern Asia

  • International cooperation pushes Malaysia towards higher education goals

    MALAYSIA, 2017/07/15 Malaysia is strengthening its position as a destination for international students, having recently inked bilateral deals related to tertiary-level education with partners in Turkey and Senegal. The majority recent of these moves took place in May, at the same time as Malaysia’s Al Bukhary International University and Turkey’s Ibn Haldun University signed an agreement to work on a collaborative education programme.

  • Seychelles promotes eco-culture tourism in Kutai Kartanegara, Indonesia

    INDONESIA, 2017/05/29 Seychelles recently organized the visit of 15 youths and students from 8 nations to Kutai Kartanegara in East Kalimantan as part of its effort to help promote compassionate destinations of eco-culture in Indonesia. Seychelles Appropriate Envoy for ASEAN, Mr. Nico Barito, said the youth and students came from France, the Netherlands, Japan, Liberia, Madagascar, Belgium, Dominican Republic, and Italy.

  • Higher earning Why a university degree is worth more in some countries than others

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/12/11 A university education may expand your mind. It will as well fatten your wallet. Data from the OECD, a club of rich nations, show that graduates can expect far better lifetime earnings than those without a degree. The size of this premium varies. It is greatest in Ireland, which has a high GDP per chief and rising inequality. Since 2000 the unemployment rate for under-35s has swelled to 8% for those with degrees – but to additional than 20% for those without, and nearly 40% for secondary school drop-outs. The country’s wealth presently goes disproportionately to workers with letters next their names.

  • Why Malaysian Universities Are Performing Poorly

    MALAYSIA, 2016/03/20 Malaysian public universities have dropped in the Times Higher Education University Rankings over the last few years. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) made 87th position in 2013, but as at 2015, no Malaysian university made the top 100 Asian rankings. Malaysian public universities have as well shown mixed results in other rankings like the QS rankings, where three Malaysian universities had slight rises in their rankings, while Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), International Islamic Universiti Malaysia (IIUM), and Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), all slipped in rankings from previous years. No Malaysian university made the top 100, According to the QS ranking profiles, Malaysian universities have lost significant ground in academic reputation and tend to be weak in research, where no Malaysian university reached the top 400.

  • Two additional years of schooling raises capacity concerns in the Philippines

    PHILIPPINES, 2015/12/28 Long-planned reforms to extend the length of schooling in the Philippines by two years are expected to significantly improve employment prospects for the country’s younger generations, while as well creating investment opportunities in private education. Implementing this reform has been a policy priority for the government of President Benigno Aquino III, which is keen for the Philippines to lose its status as one of only a handful of nations with fewer than 12 years of basic education. Starting from next year, the new system will take children from kindergarten through to grade 12, while as well sharpening the focus on maths and science in a bid to dramatically improve test scores, and boost post-secondary enrolment and graduate employment. While Philippines students stand to benefit from the reforms, near-term challenges, led by space constraints across the country’s existing network of secondary schools, will need to be addressed.

  • Indonesia Ensuring Quality Over Quantity in Higher Education

    INDONESIA, 2015/02/24 The number of universities, particularly private institutions in Indonesia has grown dramatically in the completed decade. The total figure presently stands at over 3,000 private and 130 national universities. The major centres for education continue to be in Java, namely Jakarta and Yogjakarta inclunding Bandung. National universities are still regarded as the majority prestigious so the number of applicants far outstrips places available with less than 20% of those applying being accepted.

  • Private Education in Indonesia – International Schools on the Rise

    INDONESIA, 2015/02/22 A good education is in high request in Indonesia's vibrant economy, where tens of millions of people join the job market each year. Competition is particularly tight for jobs at multinational corporations, making a respectable degree crucial for fresh graduates. As the government is hard-pressed to provide universal access to basic education in the far flung regions of the archipelago, the quality of schooling is sometimes left wanting. A growing number of parents are happy to consider paying for education to maximise their children's opportunities in the country's globalising economy. All this makes Indonesia – the world's fourth-most populous country with a young median age – an attractive market for private education. Promising to immerse students in foreign languages, cultures and ways of thinking, private schools that pride themselves as “international schools” are increasingly sought after Additional and additional Indonesian graduates are keen to study abroad, get some foreign work experience under their belt or even pursue a world career, which makes languages an significant part of the curriculum. Furthermore, local universities do not feature highly in world rankings, prompting ambitious students to look further afield in search of a prestigious degree. With Australia, the US and UK ranking part the majority popular academic destinations for Indonesian students, a good command of English is additional than helpful. This explains why bilingual schools, which teach some or all subjects in English, are mushrooming in and around Jakarta. And amid China's rapid economic ascent and catering to the large Chinese-Indonesian community, some schools – and preschools – as well opt for Mandarin as a teaching language.

  • Indonesia's Transforming Economy: Business Education in High Demand

    INDONESIA, 2015/02/22 Indonesia needs a growing number of qualified business leaders to take the country's emerging economy to a additional mature level and help local companies prevail amid intensifying competition in the Southeast Asian region. Domestic business schools need to up their game, as they, too, face formidable foreign competitors. Investment alone is not sufficient to meet these challenges. Local educators need to foster world connections and explore new ways to impart business acumen to next leaders part a generation of young Indonesians that is eager to learn the tricks of tomorrow's trade. Regional trade integration represents a key time for the country’s business schools, as universities based around the world seek partners in Asia to give their graduates an edge over the competition Rapid economic development has created a general shortage of qualified human resources in Indonesia. Local businesses that fail to recruit management talent with the right skill set are at risk of falling behind their national and international rivals. The strong GDP increase rates of the recent completed can only be sustained if domestic companies are able to boost their efficiency while instantly generating the innovative capacity to set themselves apart, both in the products and services they offer and in the ways they work. This requires high educational standards across the board, but initial and foremost at the managerial level. Preparing Indonesian business executives for the challenges that lie ahead spells opportunities for business schools inside the country, cooperation with foreign counterparts, and private vocational training.

  • Vietnam hires Filipino teachers despite concerns

    PHILIPPINES, 2015/02/20 Last weekend, a Vietnamese representative travelled to the Philippines to supervise an exam taken by 53 short-listed Filipino candidates who are trying to get an agreement to teach English in Vietnam. The applicants before made it through a screening and interview process administered by Filipino manpower firms Filsino, Grand, and Jopman, said Tran Thi Thuy Trang, who is working for Vietnamese company AIC tasked with coordinating the project that will cost an estimated US$480 million. The exam was set to assess the Filipinos’ listening, reading and writing skills, according to a Tuoi Tre journalist who was in Manila with Trang at the same time as she oversaw the test on Saturday.

  • The Malaysian vocational education system

    MALAYSIA, 2013/06/14 The government has vowed to expand the Malaysian vocational education system to help bridge the widening gap between the request for skilled labour and the available pool of trained workers. According to the Educational Blueprint 2013-25, approved by the cabinet before this year, Malaysia has a skilled labour shortage of additional than 700,000 workers, a figure set to be pushed far higher in coming years. Up to 3.3m new positions are expected to be added to the workforce by 2020, with at least 46% of them requiring jobholders to be trained to vocational diploma or certificate standard. By contrast, the education roadmap estimates that just 22% of new jobs created up until 2020 will require university degrees.
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