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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Parallel Universe: Kurdish Statelet Shutters Syriac Schools!

Kurdish-dominated authorities have shuttered 14 #schools
in the cities of Qamishli, Hasakeh and Al-Malikiyeh that favoured teaching the Syrian government's national curriculum #Syria

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During the war in #Syria, some of the border regions with #Turkey have effectively carved out a parallel state with its own Kurdish-medium educational curriculum, a programme which is not being accepted by the newly-closed #schools

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Analysis: the Kurdish-majority areas in #Syria face an uphill battle in persuading the #Syriac minority to forsake the state's national curriculum and qualifications, which are – crucially for #students – internationally recognised

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To watch: as the war in #Syria segues into what look like its final chapters, the guaranteeing of ethnic, religious and linguistic rights will be vital to the country's #future #edu #schools https://t.co/D8XVDiiohK

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Fifth-Largest Economy Latest: School Uniform Costs Driving Families into Debt!

Children’s Society: 1m #children in #England live in families that are falling into debt to meet rising school uniform costs #schools #debt #family

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#Children's Society report: the creeping indebtedness of many families is being caused by a combination of the erosion of the social security system and #schools' insistence on the wearing of branded uniforms

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The Wrong Blazer 2018 (#Children's Society report): the average cost of a single secondary school uniform is now £340.00/€377.32, while the equivalent figure for primary school garb is £255.00/€282.99 #schools

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Analysis: judging by the UK's results in international academic rankings, far too many British secondary #schools seemingly care more about dress code enforcement than preparing their charges for the challenges of a globalised knowledge economy #PISA #economics

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To watch: the percentage of UK parents going into #debt to fund #school uniform costs has increased from 7% in 2015 to 13% in 2018, a near-doubling in just three years; #charities and civil society need to prepare for a possible post-#Brexit mega-crisis https://t.co/2a9lKkC2lA

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FaceTime, 2.0: Exploring China’s Classroom Conundrum

As a positively sweltering September makes itself felt here in London, England, we have yet another top longer read to draw your attention to. China’s Classroom Conundrum: Are Facial Recognition Registration Systems Clever Or Creepy? addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary educational technology, and it’s exclusive to Mediolana.com. See you back at home!

Spy Versus Spy, 2.0: Elite Chinese #University in ‘Cyberwarfare’ Storm!

FT: #Tsinghua #University – China's top engineering #highered institution – is at the centre of claims that a number of cyber-espionage campaigns against various political and corporate targets emanate from one of its IP addresses

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FT: #Tsinghua-origin cyber attacks targeted the German automobile manufacturer #Daimler one day after it issued a profit warning which cited the deteriorating trade environment between the US and China

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Analysis: the truth about #Tsinghua's network infrastructure being used for purported cyber-espionage is less interesting than the fact that Eastern countries using standard Western IR tactics continues to surprise observers

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To watch: fears that #China is stealing US technology are being used to stoke a more troubling narrative which casts the PRC as an existential enemy, a trend which is not going to help the cause of world peace https://t.co/kJycRDQNhG #Tsinghua #highered #HigherEducation

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Arab Spring Latest: Tunisia Aims for Higher Education Export Boom! #highered

#Tunisia is opening a #university in cooperation with #France as it aims to become a #HigherEducation destination of choice in a rapidly globalising region #edu

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The Franco-Tunisian #University of Africa and the Mediterranean is scheduled to open its doors in 2019 and will offer a dual Tunisian-French certificate to its #graduates; #Tunisian #students will pay zero #tuition fees

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Analysis (1): the joint Franco-Tunisian #university represents a 'win-win' scenario as France gets to expand its already considerable influence in MENA #highered, while Tunisia gets access to meaningful #knowledge transfer

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Analysis (2): #Tunisia is now regarded as the Middle East's only fully-fledged #democracy and should make the most of its status by aiming to attract #highered #students from beyond its 'natural' markets #MENA

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To watch: the 6,500 #African students in Tunisian #universities currently comprise 75% of the entire overseas intake; while the first figure should increase, the second needs to go down if #Tunisia's #highered internationalisation is to be judged a success https://t.co/bk0sdWjL8V

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