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Warning issued to Taiwan’s ministries over int’l student exploitation

The PIE News

Taiwan’s government watchdog has accused three ministries of failing to protect overseas students from exploitation as the island sets out plans to attract 10,000 more international students over the next four years. Instead, students were forced to work to pay off debts to the institution for tuition and accommodation.

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Chile launches higher ed mental health plan

The PIE News

Multiple government entities, including the ministry of education, the ministry of public health, and the University of Chile were involved in the launch. The university’s vice-rector of student affairs said that institutional-governmental collaboration was “fundamental” to the plan’s success.

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UAE seeks ‘global innovation centre’ status in strategy

The PIE News

The UAE’s ministry of education has released an innovation strategy in an attempt to promote “the development of creative ideas and capabilities”. How this will be achieved, or what will be included in the infrastructure, has yet to be announced. “We

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Vietnam: IELTS resumed after fraud concerns

The PIE News

Earlier this month, local education departments were reportedly ordered to review foreign language exams in their region by the Vietnam government, following suspicion of cheating and mismanagement. . The English language test remains suspended at many centres still awaiting government approval, delaying some students’ study plans. .

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Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

University Business

As China’s Ministry of Education’s Department of Science, Technology and Information began cracking down on the phenomenon, it has found there have been more than 17,000 retraction notices for papers published by Chinese co-authors since the beginning of 2021, Nature reports. The latter may be the worst culprit.

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Building Bridges to Beijing?

HEPI

Globally, nowhere else is the state so paramount, as illustrated by the range of programme approval procedures used by the Beijing Ministry of Education. We need more students in our language classes, not just in our Chinese Studies departments, and to make a greater effort to involve students in outward mobility.

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China bans students from enrolling in foreign online colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The action was necessary to “maintain educational equity,” according to the statement. State Department data portal. 28 statement from the Service Center for Scholarly Exchange in Beijing.