Perhaps the most exciting opportunity for MBA programmes will be to craft a life-long experience for its students rather than one limited to one or two years Topics management education | Coronavirus | EdTech The MBA degree as we know it has been in the doldrums for a while. Increasingly, as jobs across both traditional and new-age industries place…Continue Reading
Topline Education Secretary Betsy DeVos handed in her resignation on Thursday, according to a Wall Street Journal report, making her the second Trump administration Cabinet member to quit over the Wednesday violence at the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos listens during a cabinet meeting in the East Room of the … [+]…Continue Reading
US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attends the “Getting America’s Children Safely Back to School” event in the State Room of the white House in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2020.NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty ImagesU.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced on Friday that the payment pause and interest waiver for student loan borrowers…Continue Reading
(Source: edtechreview) Leading K12 online education platform Zuoyebang was awarded by the World Economic Forum an Honorable Mention for Excellence in Digital Disruption for its first annual New Champion Awards 2020 at the World Economic Forum’s inaugural Pioneers of Change Summit. Held in an online-offline integrated format due to Covid-19, the summit brought together more…Continue Reading
With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage, and President Trump refusing to concede the election, the nation’s two Democratic leaders in Congress on Thursday scolded Republicans for their reluctance to pass a new COVID-19 relief bill and accept that Joe Biden is now president-elect. “Stop the circus and get to work on whatContinue Reading
(Source: CICC) Chinese private education giant New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU) officially started trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Nov. 10 and became the first stock to exceed HK$1,000 on the market. Credit Suisse, BofA Securities and UBS are the joint sponsors and global coordinators of the offering. New Oriental’s…Continue Reading
Navigation for News Categories The early education operator, Evolve, has been asked to explain a sharp rise in its shareprice by the NZX. File image. Photo: RNZ Insight/John Gerritsen The company’s shares jumped more than 28 percent last week, from 9 cents to 12 cents per share, ahead of a trading update issued this morning.…Continue Reading
A report from member organisation Jisc has found that a larger number of further education colleges have a skills shortage in IT teams By Clare McDonald, Business Editor Published: 29 Oct 2020 15:00 Many IT teams in further education colleges are lacking at least some facet of IT skills, according to member organisation Jisc. When…Continue Reading
(Source: Sohu) NYSE-listed Chinese education giant New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. on Oct. 28 announced to launch its public offering in Hong Kong and has launched its global public offering of 8.51 million new shares, starting to commerce at 9:00 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2020, Hong Kong local time. Credit Suisse, BofA Securities…Continue Reading
During a trip to East Africa in the early 2000s, Sonal Kadchha found a lack of secondary education and few teachers, which eventually led her to teach women in the region how to code By Clare McDonald, Business Editor Published: 24 Sep 2020 11:30 When Virgin Atlantic set up a new flight route from London…Continue Reading
The Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Anthony Boateng, has said authorities will deal with all students who rioted and vandalised school property to protest against the non-featuring of past questions procured for them by the government, in their final exam. The GES, in November last year, procured 400,000Continue Reading
