Safety in Numbers: Japanese University Students Prefer Radical Conformism!

#University #students in #Japan are queuing up to work at major corporations in a trend largely at odds with the broader economic picture #edu #economics

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#Japan: 138,000 #undergraduate and #postgraduate #students who are due to graduate in H1/2019 want to work at companies which have at least 5,000 employees, but just 37 jobs are available for every 100 applicants

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By contrast, almost 90% of openings in #companies with ≤300 #employees are set to remain unfilled, with only 46,700 applicants for 462,900 vacancies #Japan

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Analysis: the crush to get into the bowels of large corporations can largely be explained by popular perceptions of how staff are treated in #Japanese SMEs #Japan #employment

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To watch: relatively high levels of employment in some economies are disguising the fact that even vaguely desirably #jobs are hugely oversubscribed; #students should expect intense competition for these positions #Japan https://t.co/nXMlhCGPLC

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Seeking Knowledge, Especially in China: PRC Tops New Asian #Education League Table!

Chinese Ministry of #Education ('MOE'): #China has become #Asia's biggest destination for overseas #students, and this trend is only accelerating #highered #CollegeAdmissions

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2017 figures indicate that there were 489,200 foreign nationals #studying in #China, including 75,800 postgraduates or post-doctoral researchers; overall year-on-year growth came in at a seismic 18.62% #internationalstudents

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Intriguingly, the number of #internationalstudents in #China hailing from Belt and Road Initiative ('BRI') countries – an enormously diverse group of states stretching from #Morocco to #Indonesia – grew 11.6% from 2016 to 2017, an expansion rate below the #global average #edchat

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Analysis: large and wealthy cities such as #Beijing and #Shanghai are absorbing many of the #internationalstudents heading to China to pursue #highered opportunities, but smaller cities are also hosting significant numbers of foreign knowledge-seekers + becoming more cosmopolitan

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To watch: the rapid development of #China's #highered sector is evidenced by #internationalstudents' course choices, which are switching from #Chinese to subjects such as law, engineering + #management https://t.co/ldYRmqZPdd

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The New #Educational Consensus: 100% of Singapore’s #Universities Increase Fees!

All six #universities in #Singapore are scheduled to raise their #tuition fees from the start of the new #academic year in 08/2018, raising questions about #highered policy #ASEAN

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) May 10, 2018

#Singapore's #tuition fee increases range from a nominal c.▲0.5% change for the majority of #undergraduate programmes to a rather steeper c.▲3.9% hike for enrollments at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music

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While #Singapore citizens automatically receive heavily subsidised fees via the #Tuition Grant offered by the Ministry of Education ('MOE'), the situation for international students is more complicated and not necessarily as attractive

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To watch: numerous territories around the world have largely or completely abolished #university #tuition fees in recent years; #Singapore may consider doing the same to lure the very best global talent https://t.co/5R97Vi65Bb

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Flunking the Test: India’s Education System ‘Under Societal Siege’!

A new mix of #technology and #corruption threatens to erode the credibility of #India's #education system, with #exam papers being leaked on popular chat apps and smartphone cameras being used for brazen in-test #cheating

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) April 22, 2018

Part of the reason behind the incredible levels of #academic dishonesty: the best #universities in #India have admission rates about one-tenth those of #Oxford and #Cambridge

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Analysts: political incompetence has seen #India embark on a spate of #school-building programmes without paying enough attention to the quality of #education these institutions provide #edu

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To watch: #India is punching dramatically below its weight in a number of key sectors, but if current corruption levels within the Indian #education system remain unchecked then any thoughts of true #superpower status will remain delusional https://t.co/alM6grsJX9 #edu #Asia

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School Board Election Scandal Analysis: How Asian-Americans Can Elevate the Fight Against Neo-Racism

As the fair spring winds blow around Mediolana’s home city of London, England, our article publication velocity shifts into a different and very timely gear with a trenchant analysis of the school board election scandal in Edison, a New Jersey municipality within the New York City metropolitan area. Teachable Moment: How Asian-Americans Can Combat Rising Racism is now live at Mediolana.com. See you after the click!

Urban Scrawl: Technology Overload ‘Killing Basic Classroom Skill’!

United Kingdom medical specialists: overuse of #touchscreen technology is rendering #children unable to hold a pen correctly owing to incomplete muscle development, with #smartphones and #tablets coming in for particular scrutiny

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Sally Payne, the head paediatric occupational therapist at the Heart of England foundation NHS Trust: '#Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago,' with the result that the simple act of holding a pencil is now beyond them #edu

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Analysis: many #parents risk unwittingly giving their young #children huge future #academic problems by the simple omission of failing to regulate their usage of high technology products

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To watch: the United Kingdom #educational sector's toxic combination of high per capita expenditure and decidedly average #academic outcomes could get much worse if the trend towards substituting #technology for human company continues unabated https://t.co/iSpoUI94yw

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) March 1, 2018

Korea Team Writing: Seoul’s Ministry of #Education Opens Up #Highered Access! #TuitionFees

Ministry of #Education, South #Korea: #universities and #colleges will abolish #tuition fees by 2022, with public and national universities to repeal them as soon as this year #edu #edchat @our_moe

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) February 24, 2018

92 #Korean #universities – whose admission fees are below the average of ₩773,000/€585 – will cut fees by 20%/year over the next four years, levying only a minimal change for administrative procedures

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) February 24, 2018

The remaining 61 #universities plan to reduce their #tuition fees by 16%/year over the next five years; 128 private colleges will cut their corresponding charges by 13.4%/year over the same time period

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) February 24, 2018

Analysis: the move by #highered institutions in South #Korea to do away with #tuition fees should serve as a wake-up call to ideological extremists in developed Anglosphere countries who advocate inflicting tens of thousands of dollars of #debt on their future tax base #edchat

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) February 24, 2018

To watch: #studentdebt in the United States is now nudging US$1.5tn, an economically and socially untenable situation which is poised to explode; @our_moe's move serves to further underline the sheer insanity of the status quo https://t.co/q1eJUCmzDQ #edu #edchat #tuitionfees

— ッ MEDIOLANA® EDU (@Mediolana) February 24, 2018