As the center of the world economy shifts east, so does excellence in education. The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday said the education systems in Shanghai, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have proved they are outstanding, and "American parents looking to send their children to the world's best schools might want to...

Following a nationwide trend, Iowa's universities have seen a rapid surge of enrollment by Chinese students in the past few years, according to officials.

At Iowa State University, Chinese undergraduate enrollment grew from 72 students in 2002 to 1,212 this year. At the University of Iowa, the enrollment of...

The University of Sydney in Australia has begun using scores from China's national college entrance exam during admissions in a bid to attract more Chinese students.

Under the new admissions policy, Chinese students who have sat China's national entrance exam, also known as gaokao, can go straight into...

BEIJING, February 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ChinaEdu Corporation (NASDAQ: CEDU) ("ChinaEdu" or the "Company"), a leading online educational services provider in China, today announced that the Company had been honored with five prestigious education industry awards for 2011.
ChinaEdu was honored with the...

• Record number of 221 organisations at Career Fair
• Some students land dream jobs months before the final exams
• More students get job offers from internship employers

How can the cities of Hong Kong and Shenzhen work collaboratively to address the vulnerability of their infrastructure to the effects of climate change? Counterpart Cities brings together researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and six design teams from both cities to research and propose collaborative...

Vital to understanding immunodeficiency, autoimmune diseases or cancer

Jerusalem, February 16th 2012. -- The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in association with the Israel Science Foundation and Bar-Ilan...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has launched the I‧CARE Programme to promote students' holistic development through social and civic engagements in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. The Programme has been well received by CUHK students and the community since its launch in September 2011. CUHK is...

A total of 339,700 Chinese left to study abroad in 2011, up 19.3 percent from the previous year, statistics released by the Ministry of Education Friday show.

According to the ministry, 314,800, or about 93 percent of them, were self-supported, while the rest were sponsored by the government or their...

Technion scientists have developed a biological computer, composed entirely of DNA molecules and enzymes constructed on a gold-coated chip. This new computer represents a significant improvement over the original computer reported three years ago in a joint paper by Prof. Ehud Keinan of the Technion and a group...

Singapore’s Minister for Education Mr Heng Swee Keat and US Secretary of Education Mr Arne Duncan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance collaboration in education between the two countries. This took place in Washington, DC on 7 February 2012.

Collaborations in education are a key aspect of...

Tainan, Taiwan 6 Feb 2012 - Distinguished Professor Huang Hao-Jen of life science at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, innovated the technology of molecular detection of genetic markers developed in heat-tolerant cauliflower for assisting the selection of breeding to ensure the year-round...

9 February 2012 – The 22nd edition of the HKTDC Education & Careers Expo opened today and continues through 12 February, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). This year, 720 exhibitors from 14 countries and regions are taking part in the event, which features the latest information on...

The number of children who skip breakfast has not dropped despite a campaign that has been going on for several years. According to an online poll on youth health in 2009 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 27.1 percent of middle and high school students skipped breakfast at least five times a week.

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Elementary schoolchildren in Korea are as busy as high school students, who are often regarded as the busiest as they prepare for university entrance exams. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey in the second semester of last year on 1,745 sixth graders in elementary school, second- and third-year...

With the support of all faculty and school members, students and alumni, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is organising the International Week for the second year from 6 to 11 February. This year’s event takes the theme of “Global Citizens” which is one of the distinctive features of PolyU’s four-year...

Tainan, Taiwan, 4 Feb 2012 - A Supercomputing Research Center will be established in collaboration with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in southern Taiwan as one of the four top transnational projects sponsored by National Science Council of Taiwan.

An annual report has revealed that papers on science and technology written by Chinese scientists were cited over 5 million times over the past 10 years, making China the seventh-largest source of such citations.

The report was published on ScienceWatch.com with the support of Thomson Reuters, with 20...