Alibaba’s Jack Ma takes up a Tokyo teaching role
Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, who co-founded Alibaba Group, actually used to be a teacher.
Education
Elite universities like Yale, Oxford and Stanford may soon be in India
While Indian universities have produced CEOs at top global companies like Microsoft and Alphabet, many of these institutions rank poorly internationally.
How James Marlow of Hong Kong’s Green Hour believes education is the core of sustainability
Hong Kong’s Green Hour may have never existed if it wasn’t for a random New Year’s challenge from a friend back in 2018. “I didn’t really plan on doing anything around environmentalism before setting this up. It wasn’t something that I ever intended to do,
How BSD Education is making digital skills more accessible
Wanting to make tech education more accessible for teachers and students, BSD Education (Build Something Different) offers a customizable curriculum for educators wanting to bring digital skills learning to the classroom. Chris Geary and Nickey Khemchandani founded the program in Hong Kong in 2013, and since then, it has made
US test scores indicate significant learning loss during COVID
You’ve heard it before – during the pandemic, everything was disrupted. And part of that everything was kids’ education, which took a hit when children had to stay home from school. Some places did remote learning; others did forms of homeschool (which parents were famously not the biggest fans of)
The US isn’t the top choice for Chinese students anymore
Chinese nationals have previously made up as much as 35% of the international students studying in the US. For a while, the US was the top place that Chinese students wanted to go if they were looking to study abroad.
Now, though, those numbers are going down. So far, the
Afghanistan’s female students set to return to school as Taliban reopen universities
The backstory:
* In August of last year, United States President Joe Biden led the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. And by the end of that month, the US had evacuated all American troops.
* Once the American military pulled out and the Taliban took over, billions in foreign aid, which