Going South: Student #Scandal Subverts Taiwanese Overtures to #ASEAN!

#Taiwan's New Southbound Policy of strengthening political and economic ties with #ASEAN has suffered a setback owing to allegations of serious mistreatment of #students from #Indonesia #edu #NewSouthboundPolicy

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 20, 2019

Legislator Ko Chi-en of the opposition Nationalist Party of #China claims that six Taiwanese #universities permitted #Indonesian #students to be used as cheap labour for 10 hours/day in settings such as contact lens factories #edu #Taiwan

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 20, 2019

Analysis: similar to #Japan and South #Korea, #Taiwan is a highly-developed Asian economy which is confronting a declining birth rate, and needs international #students to plug the gaps in its #education system #Asia

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 20, 2019

To watch: an increasingly confident #Indonesia has suspended recruitment of its nationals by Taiwanese #universities pending 'better management' conditions; the #ASEAN giant is scheduled to be the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030 #edu https://t.co/SIvNWEk2kg

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 20, 2019

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America First, For Now: Emerging Markets Eroding US Scientific Dominance!

The United States is seeing its overwhelming dominance in producing world-class scientists eroded by #China and other emerging markets #science #edu #education

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 14, 2019

The proportion of the world's highly-cited researchers at US institutions slipped from 55% in 2014 to 43% in 2018, an incredible drop given the time interval of just four years; #China's share expanded from 5.9% to 7.9% in the same period #edu #education #science

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 14, 2019

Analysis: the picture of #China's ascendancy in scientific citations looks even more impressive when one realises that many of the best researchers in the US are ethnically Chinese – and sometimes even PRC nationals #edu #science

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 14, 2019

To watch: the performance of nations such as #India, #Turkey, #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #Iran and #Russia in producing scientists with serious citation levels can only improve in the coming years, making the world of #science genuinely multipolar #edu https://t.co/4gduiVc9C1

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) January 14, 2019

Vest Foot Forward: Police Reaction to High School Protests Gives #GiletsJaunes New Urgency!

Images showing dozens of teenagers in stress positions while being directed by heavily armed police have shocked #France, which is already reeling from the #GiletJaunes protests #MantesLaJolie

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

The images of the #teenagers from #MantesLaJolie – a fairly unremarkable suburb west of Paris proper – are incredibly disturbing and raise serious questions about policing policy #GiletsJeunes

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

Analysis (1): the alarming response by French police to a protest by high school students comes at a time when #France's commitment to #humanrights – both domestically and in terms of foreign policy – seems to be wavering #SaudiArabia #Africa

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

Analysis (2): that #MantesLaJolie has a relatively high proportion of its population who are either immigrants or descended from recent immigrants has been largely unreported by the international media, but this fact may also help explain the police actions against some #students

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

To watch: while the #GilesJaunes protests neatly fit into the voguish 'crisis of #capitalism' narrative, the reality is more complex and the problems much deeper than the undeniable economic ones; alienating the young will not dispel the #disenchantment https://t.co/dnBI52XX19

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) December 8, 2018

Heartbreak High: Australian Teachers on Poverty’s Front Line!

#Australia: a national survey has found that 93% of #teachers are using their own money to purchase supplies for their #school or #students, with 25% of this overwhelming majority forking out >A$1,000/year #inequality #poverty

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

The survey of 7,804 Australian #teachers revealed that 78% of staff purchase stationery, 76% buy classroom equipment and 44% acquire library resources and #textbooks on behalf of #students or their institutions #poverty #Australia

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

Analysis: like in many developed countries, the rich-poor gap in #Australia is reaching perturbing proportions, with all too many citizens content to watch the poor suffer needlessly – even if they are #children #poverty

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

To watch: critics contend that public schools in #Australia are being seriously underfunded to the detriment of independent and religious #educational entities; extreme hardship at the bottom of #society is only set to increase https://t.co/x2yuOLIIRM #edu #schools

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 12, 2018

Korean Wave Latest: International Students Flocking to Soft Power Player!

#Universities in South #Korea are targeting international students as a vital new source of revenue as the post-2013 government restructuring programme has eaten chunks out of their bottom line #hallyu #edu #collegelife

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

Republic of #Korea: the number of international students at local #universities has increased from just 32,557 in 2006 to 123,858 in 2017, a ▲280.4% change in just 11 years #edu #schools #highered #globalization

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

Analysis: South #Korea could reap giant dividends from an expanded pool of international #students, but its #university system must address certain qualitative issues which are holding it back #edchat

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

To watch: South #Korea's extraordinarily low birth rate is now filtering through into tertiary education, with the number of new #undergraduates enrolling in 2018 the lowest since 2010; international students will be in even greater future demand https://t.co/ziZq7ml17Z #highered

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) November 8, 2018

World War Trade Latest: American Business Schools Experience Declining Footfall!

Graduate Management Admission Council: applications to business #school programmes in the United States have fallen by 6.6% in 2018, the fourth straight year of decline #UnitedStates #education #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

The reasons for the contraction in business #school applications are numerous, but a ▼10.5% year-on-year change in the number of international applications stands out as a serious warning to the US #highered system #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

Analysts: the combination of atavistic nationalism and incredibly expensive degrees is working against American business #schools, with their high-quality and more welcoming European counterparts profiting from these weaknesses #edu #HigherEducation

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

To watch: the #Trump administration's 'nativist' rhetoric is having a tangible and direct impact on Brand USA and how its products and services are perceived globally; further applications slides are likely #edu https://t.co/kY0pAcgAKw

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) October 8, 2018

A Textbook Case of Censorship: Chinese Education Ministry Erasing Foreign Content!

#China's Ministry of Education ('MOE') is ordering inspections of all textbooks in elementary and middle schools in order to remove 'foreign content' as the
Xi Jinping era risks taking a wildly nationalist turn #schools #edu

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

The #Beijing-based Ministry of Education has set the extraordinarily exacting deadline of 15/10/2018 for the completion of investigations into teaching materials – investigations which have the explicit aim of erasing content that has 'replaced national curricula' #edu #China

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

Critically, international #schools – which exclusively enroll #students with non-Chinese passports – are subject to the MOE's notice, meaning that the increasingly popular bicultural and bilingual curricula are now a CCP target

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

To watch (1): while #humanrights are not a particularly strong suit of the PRC, moves such as textbook 'review procedures' are only going to erode #China's hard-won and richly-merited soft power credentials

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018

To watch (2): the PRC's lurch towards a less relaxed form of command-and-control society could ultimately freak out investors and imperil #China's global leadership ambitions at exactly the wrong time https://t.co/jq2oztRdFL

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) September 23, 2018