This mission is organised by DIT Malaysia. It aims to showcase the UK’s excellence in all aspects of teacher training education and provide direct networking and collaboration opportunities with education institutions, buyers and investors, and policymakers.
You can express your interest to Gurpreet Kaur, DIT Malaysia.
Please note that dates are TBC but likely to be the week commencing 20th February 2023.
Our thanks to DIT Malaysia and UKABC for kindly sharing this content.
As China’s youth deals with growing unemployment and social pressure, how will China’s economy and society be affected?
This July, China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported that China’s youth unemployment had reached a record 19.9%. As China grapples with an economic slump from COVID-19 and the country’s strict lockdown measures, the impact is being felt hard across China’s intensely competitive job market.
As youth employment struggles to keep pace with record education rates, disillusioned young people are now turning their backs on the immense pressure in China to get ahead. This has led to idle-inspired cultural phenomena, such as the ‘lay flat’ and ‘let it rot’ trends, while the government looks to arrest the social malaise by instilling greater moral guidance through ‘core socialist values’.
As Australian universities welcome back Chinese students, this Asia Society Australia program asks what it is like to be a young person in China today. Join us for a discussion with On China’s emerging challenge within.
To register for this briefing please click the link here.
Our sincere thanks to the Asia Society Australia programme for kindly sharing this information.
As the education community moves beyond the immediate-term crisis response to ensure that learning never stops, it is vital to come back to the ‘why’ of education and recognize its importance as the solution and driver for society and the industry to thrive.
Bett Asia’s six themes will structure the content underneath the overarching theme of ‘Education as a catalyst for change,’ ensuring that education stakeholders can address their most pressing challenges and priorities.
This year's BETT Awards are sponsored by CBI member Pearson.
For more information about this important EdTech show please visit here.
Our thanks to UKABC for kindly sharing this information
It’s no secret - the UK’s education system is the envy of the world. Our higher education institutions are some of the most prestigious in the world. We’ve over 600,000 international students currently studying in the UK and 4.9m vocational skills qualifications being achieved globally through the UK’s further education providers.
Beyond the traditional classroom, innovative approaches to industry-based skills training recognises and accredits life-long learning, supporting sustainable long-term employment.
The UK’s world-renowned services such as future-facing Education Technology and English Language Teaching are in high demand.
Post-pandemic, the traditional nature of work and employment is changing dramatically. The UK’s approach to education, learning and skills development continue to be world-leading. Our experts are supporting systemic change in education systems across the globe, enabling countries to deliver high impact, inclusive skills and education programmes that are tailored for their economies, and which enable social mobility and engage the hard to reach.
Our events provide insight into the UK’s global, national, regional and local organisations that play their key part in developing the next generation every day. Meet research experts, policymakers, education providers, businesses and the students themselves. You’ll have the chance to learn about what they’re delivering now that is driving success - and what they are planning next.
With a focus on the sharing of best practices across a wide range of education and research initiatives, our events will foster mutually beneficial opportunities for collaboration and partnership with the UK.
1. Professional and Future Facing Global Skills Opportunities
Demand for highly professional and future proof skills is greater now than ever before.
Work-based training, continuous professional development, accreditation and professional regulation support the development of employable students and lifelong sustainable careers. Learn how the UK can help current and future professionals in countries throughout the world to maintain and develop transferable skills.
2. EdTech
In a post-COVID and post-COP26 world, education technology has suddenly gained a great deal of prominence. Its roles in home schooling, providing diverse content, capturing hard to reach students and targeting learning for special needs have suddenly led to huge numbers of case studies, but what does all this mean for the education sector as a whole?
The UK is a hub for Education Technology, so come and learn from industry leads and individual companies about how to deploy education technology effectively and what they think the next 5 years will hold.
3. The Association of Commonwealth Universities
International collaboration for global challenges - translating university expertise into action.
The climate crisis requires urgent and collaborative action to mitigate the drastic decline of our land, oceans and environment. Universities, through their research and expertise, play a vital role in addressing global challenges and can support governments and the industry to deliver climate action and resilience, and help manage sustainable use of scarce resources. University-led partnerships are key to translating research and expertise into action on the pressing global challenge of food security.
Join us to meet Commonwealth leaders, policy-makers and scholars and explore how their work supports the implementation of international frameworks such as the new Commonwealth Living Lands Charter.
4. International Education Strategy and Science, Business and Policy for Environmental Action hosted by the University of Birmingham
Universities are important convenors and collaborators in the drive towards environmental protection and climate action. As a sector our research shapes regional, national and international policies, and our teaching upskills the next generation to tackle the climate crisis. However, action is not instigated in silos. The transfer of knowledge between researchers, policy makers, industry and education is essential to make progress on environmental protection.
Meet the global, national and regional stakeholders that are working together to make important things happen, hear the latest environmental research, innovations and collaborations, and join an important conversation about turning knowledge into action.
Dear CBI Members and Partners,
Herewith some useful insights into new and burgeoning market opportunities for China's EdTech leaders:
The exodus of China's EdTech industry: where are they heading? (substack.com)
Our thanks to Pingwest for kindly sharing this article.
Introduction
The workshop on Project 89 will be virtually co-organise by the British Council in Viet Nam, Department of International Trade – UK Embassy and UK–Viet Nam Higher Education Network on 3 December 2021.
Ministry of Education and Training in Vietnam has launched a Scholarship Programme named as Project 89 – a Decision approval the proposal for enhancing competencies of lecturers and administrators of HEIs meeting requirements for radical changes in education and training until 2030.
Main objectives of Project 89 are:
Workshop aims
Targeted audience
Dear CBI Members and Partners,
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Our sincere thanks to Rebecca Li of DIT Shanghai for kindly sharing with the CBI's China team.
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Date for Diaries:
Topic: Education in Vietnam Webinar
Date/Time: 31.08.21 1030-1145 (UK) 1630-1745 (HANOI)
Format: ZOOM
Hosts: Britcham Vietnam
Status: Free of Charge
Registration Link: EducinVietWebinar
Our sincere thanks to BritchamVietnam for sharing this information. For queries or other details please contact Ms. Anh Vu via: [email protected]
Thank You
CBI member, Pearson has made dozens of online classes available to support the ‘No Suspension of Study’ initiative taking place across China in response to the coronavirus.
When the epidemic hit, schools across China postponed their term start dates after the Lunar Year period in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus. In response, Pearson took immediate action, mobilising staff to ensure that after just a few days dozens of free online courses were available to ensure that students could continue learning without suspension.
Pearson is offering a range of products from its various business lines, including:
Meanwhile in Hong Kong and Macao, Pearson has also opened all subjects from pre-primary to senior secondary, as well as major English Reading Series.
Pearson are happy to report, that within a few days of opening this service, more than 60,000 applicants have applied to access the International Connections Academy set up to facilitate these programmes.
Pearson has also opened free AI learning resources on its Longman English Plus WeChat Platform, known as “Longman Xiaoying” and provided free digital supplementary learning resources for end-users with a certified Pearson textbook. As of now, more than 100,000 copies of original readers and supplementary exercises have been released, across nearly 160 books, to the benefit of almost 200,000 users. In the near future, Pearson will open more high-quality English learning resources to full-time schools free of charge.
Joe Lam, Managing Director of Pearson Greater China and India Hub said, "The epidemic situation is still very challenging. We are here to go through the hard time together in China by offering whatever help we can to meet various learning needs from teachers and students and make school available at home.
CBI member, Lego announced on China’s ‘Children’s Day’ (last Friday) that it has partnered with the Jack Ma Foundation to launch a three-year partnership focussed on empowering rural education through play.
Lego will work with the Jack Ma Foundation to set up activity centres in rural schools across China to provide children with greater opportunity to study history, science and arts programmes. Lego will donate products and training at each of these centres. It is anticipated that the programme will reach ten provinces and autonomous regions over the next three years and will benefit over 30,000 students and 300 teachers.
Since 2018, Lego has donated more than 20,000 sets to various non-profits, NGOs and community action groups in China to provide learning through play opportunities for children in need. Katherine Kirk Muff, vice-president of social responsibility and engagement at Lego said: “[Lego’s] mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. In the coming years, we will focus on providing access to quality learning through play to children in need. [Lego’s] partnership with the Jack Ma Foundation will ground our committeemen to benefit rural children in need and empower them with lifelong skills for the future their development through high-quality learning experiences.”
Lego is establishing strong philanthropic credentials in China; the company has already helped some 300,000 children across the Mainland.
