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  • 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.

  • China’s largest money managers has sent 23 executives to a London business school

    CHINA, 2013/11/04 One of China’s major money managers has sent 23 executives to a London business school to learn about the UK fund market, suggesting it has plans to set up in Europe, according to the course director. China Jiantou Trust requested its executives learn about UK competition analysis, the legal and regulatory environment and how to go about merger and acquisitions during a two-day course at the London School of Business and Finance. The company, which has issued 646 investment trusts in the Chinese market with total assets of Rmb193bn ($32bn), was as well keen to learn about how the European Ucits fund passport operates.

  • More enrollment in Malala's part of the world

    PAKISTAN, 2013/10/13 Malala Yousafzai has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nonetheless, a number of people attribute the hike in girls' enrollment in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to her struggle. Malala's international admiration has boosted the number of newly enrolled girls in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK), particularly Malakand Division. The Malakand Division includes the districts of Chitral, Lower Dir and Upper Dir, Swat, Buner, Shangla and Malakand. "In less than a month, more than 200,000 children, including 75,000 girls have been enrolled in different schools," KPK education minister Atif Khan told DW. He added that the people living in this area had now understood the importance of education in a nation's progress. Khan called what happened to Malala "upsetting" and hoped it would not repeat itself.

  • Kalam village in Pakistan,

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/20 The UAE has opened a new preparatory school in Kalam village in Pakistan, the new part of the government’s $7.5m aid to help fund educational projects in the country, the WAM news agency reported. The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan has opened the school in the village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and is part of the directives and initiatives ordered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The new Haryati School in Kalam village will serve 225 male and female students from primary and preparatory stages. The two-storey building of the school consists of eight class rooms, a computer lab and government facilities.

  • Pakistan's Malala Makes

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/13  Ms. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending school, on Friday addressed hundreds of young people at the UN headquarters in New York, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism. 'Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world,” Ms. Yousafzai said, in an address to the UN Youth Assembly. The Pakistan schoolgirl, who marked her 16th birthday on Friday, told the gathering that the Taliban attack nine months ago changed nothing in her life.

  • Chinese student summer program at a prestigious Western school.

    CHINA, 2013/06/30 For Chinese parents obsessed with the success of their offspring, the new must-have experience is a summer program at a prestigious Western school.  Students in China are hardly slackers, spending an average of 40 weeks a year at school, compared with 36 weeks for the U.S. school year. And while parents have long sent their children to academic programs to keep them busy during the summer, presently the growing trend is for them to attend top-notch U.S. and U.K. schools.  They are drawn to these expensive overseas programs for three reasons. Initial, parents want their kids to get a break from China's notoriously test-based curriculum, and be exposed to Western-style, seminar-type teaching. Second, such immersion programs can boost students' spoken English skills significantly and broaden their exposure to other cultures.

  • 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.

  • School enrollment, primary (% gross)

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 Gross enrolment ratio. Primary. Total is the total enrollment in primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of official primary education age. GER can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Catalog Sources World Development Indicators

  • Expansion of the higher education sector in South Asia

    ASIA, 2013/03/11 This obstacle can be traced due to problems with student loan systems, which in a lot of nations either do not exist or have high default rates and/or major implicit interest rate subsidies. In recent decades Southeast Asian countries have simultaneously enjoyed rapid economic growth and a significant expansion of the higher education sector. But many countries in the region are finding it difficult to pay for this expansion of their universities.
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