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French universities to offer more courses in English to attract foreign students
France wants to boost the number of foreign students at its universities by more than half over the next decade and will offer more courses taught in English to attract them. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, announcing the plan on Monday, said increasing the number of ...
As foreign labor system evolves, education has to play catch-up
Japanese-language education is becoming more important for children of foreign residents in Japan at a time when the government is planning to introduce a new visa system to increase the number of foreign workers. Elementary and junior high schools accept children with almost no conditions ...
Chinese university students, alumni speak out over disappearance of young labor activists
Students and alumni of several Chinese universities are sounding the alarm over the apparent detention of more than a dozen young labor activists who have been missing since the weekend. Three recent graduates of the elite Peking University have been taken away by authorities, the ...
Labor activists in China go missing after suspected coordinated raids
At least 12 Chinese labor activists have gone missing in recent days, in what sources close to them believe was a coordinated effort by authorities to silence the vocal group, most of them university students or recent graduates. Authorities took away at least nine activists ...
Let Harvard be Harvard, only much bigger
Increasing class size is the best answer for Harvard and other top schools to be more inclusive.
Universities should compensate the medical school applicants they discriminated against.
Business lobby Keidanren's plan to nix hiring rules makes waves in Japan
Every spring, hordes of young people dressed in matching dark business suits descend on workplaces across the country. They have not yet joined the ranks of the country's ubiquitous salarymen and women but rather are university students beginning a monthslong job hunt. But as companies ...
Keidanren to scrap long-held Japan recruitment guidelines in 2021
Japan’s largest business lobby has decided to scrap its long-held guidelines for corporate hiring of university students to give flexibility in recruiting amid increasing competition for new talent.
Mizuho Financial Group looks to attract creative thinkers in new hiring strategy
One of Japan's biggest banks is throwing away the cookie cutter when it comes to hiring fresh graduates. Realizing it was recruiting "exactly the same" types of people each year, Mizuho Financial Group Inc. now wants to hire more creative thinkers who can help it ...
Load lifted from students' shoulders as ministry recommends letting them leave textbooks at school
In early September, the education ministry issued a notice to boards of education nationwide asking schools to let students leave their textbooks and other study materials at school — the practice known as okiben in Japanese — to reduce the weight of their school ...
Japan returns confiscated souvenirs from North Korea to Korean school students
The government has returned souvenirs from North Korea seized at an airport to the Korean school students in Japan to whom they belonged, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. The items were confiscated when the students returned from a trip to the country. In a ...
Academic acceleration systems, which enable students who excel in school to skip grades and study at a faster rate than others, have become increasingly commonplace globally. In the United States, around 180,000 students under 18 years old skip grades and enter universities early every ...
