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Politics
Moon vows strong education, prosecution reform to promote fairness
Seoul: President Moon Jae-in pledged a strong push Tuesday for the far-reaching systemic reform of South Korea’s public sectors, including education and the prosecution. In his budget speech at the National Assembly, Moon stressed the importance of promoting fairness to achieve the key policy goals of innovative, inclusive and peace-based…
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East Asia
Belt and Road projects lead to massive growth in higher education for overseas students in China
As Belt and Road construction continues to bring tangible benefits to the countries involved, China’s higher education is also playing an increasingly important role in facilitating the development of these countries through training more and more overseas talents. Higher education in China for overseas students has seen remarkable growth in…
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Education
Teaching Cambridge Programs In Mongolia
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA– With four graduating classes, the New Era International School (NEIS) is proud of the academic achievements of its students: in fact, the 46% of them are studying in the world’s best universities in US, UK, Canada and many more. The school was established in 2011 by the Ministry…
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Education
Education ministry to use extra budget to increase air cleaners in classrooms
The government’s extra budget spending plan announced Wednesday will include increasing the number of air purifiers to be installed in elementary school classrooms to better protect young pupils against harmful fine dust pollution, officials said. Officials at the Ministry of Education said it will also expand financial support for part-time…
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East Asia
Free education
Success will depend on how to secure outlays The country can no longer delay providing free education for high school students. That is why the Moon Jae-in administration has decided to begin this program for seniors in the fall semester this year. The government and ruling party made the decision…
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East Asia
Unemployed moms seek jobs to cover living, educational outlays
More than half of unemployed moms in South Korea want to find work to better cover living and education-related expenses for family members, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 56.6 percent of the respondents said they want to…
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Central Asia
Preschool education in Kyrgyzstan
According to the official data of 2018, in Kyrgyzstan, preschools have reached an enrollment rate of 24% of children of pre-primary school age, an almost 2% increase from 2017. Latest official statistics for 2018 show that there are 620,000 children in the age range of 3 to 7 years old…
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Central Asia
Pre-school education in Uzbekistan
“In the next 4-5 years, we set a goal to cover all kindergarten-age children with the system of pre-school education. It is our duty to women, children of our country, moreover, our sacred task for the sake of the future, and we will definitely fulfill it” – this is what…
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Education
Kindergartens in Georgia
According to the official statistics provided by the National Statistics Office of Georgia for 2018-2019, there are 1574 public preschool education and care (PEC) institutions in the country. Among them, 180 are located in Tbilisi, the capital, while the rest are in the other 10 regions. The number of children…
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Education
Kindergartens in Vietnam
Children in Vietnam often go to kindergartens from 2 to 6, although many of them go to daycare centers under 12 months, if their mothers work. Kindergartens are divided into private and public ones. According to the statistics in 2018, there were 15,394 public kindergartens across Vietnam, increasing from…
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