A U.S. billionaire’s giant gift to one of China’s top universities for a program echoing Oxford’s Rhodes Scholarships comes as the country seeks to boost its schools’ prestige even while tightening ideological control in classrooms. Tsinghua University in Beijing last weekend inaugurated its Schwarzman ...
The school year at Haileybury College’s campus near Beijing began with three People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching on a running track as the Chinese national anthem played over loudspeakers. Seven hundred students stood silently in single-file lines with their hands crossed, the international prep ...
Current and former international students in the capital share some of their experiences and offer advice that might help incoming students save some yen.
Tradition dies hard when it comes to promoting women to head universities.
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time Monday, but the University of Tokyo topped the Asia-Pacific and Harvard remained the global No. 1 for the 14th consecutive year. Todai stood at No. 20 ...
A perfect storm of demographics and economics has caused universities in both Japan and the U.S. to aggressively woo students from abroad.
Young people have their say on the "Brexit" referendum, in which a slim majority of British voters opted for the U.K. to leave the European Union.
Part of Hideyuki Morimoto’s internship at U.S. chemical giant DuPont’s branch in Tochigi Prefecture involved preparing an experiment on engineering plastic. Although his mentor was watching over him, he still felt pressure to perform. “Unlike studying, if I make a mistake, it would cause ...
The humanities and social sciences are vital to analyzing the complexities of economics, a fact the education ministry would be well-served to remember.
Google, All Nippon Airways and Toyota have emerged as the ideal workplaces for Japanese millennial talent, according to a survey.
The ruling and opposition parties must follow through on their promises to increase university scholarships and prevent more students from having to take out crippling loans.
A nun in India has received a PhD for her study of scramjet engines, devices that can be used in space craft, news reports said. Sister Benedicta of the Holy Face, 32, is a member of a Carmelite community in the city of Pune, ...
