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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. The education ministry was subsequently asked to look into the issues but failed to carry out a full investigation.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada. Our experiences as educators in this context has shown us the value of encouraging PSTs to share their stories about what propelled them into the world of education while sharing our own stories.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada. Our experiences as educators in this context has shown us the value of encouraging PSTs to share their stories about what propelled them into the world of education while sharing our own stories.

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Russia: int’l student numbers ‘grow’ despite war

The PIE News

About 400,000 foreign students study at Russian universities currently attracted by among other things affordable fees, plus over 1,200 programs in Medicine, Engineering, Economics and Humanities taught in Russian, English or French, Asya Manvelyan, student services manager – department of Middle East and Southern Africa at Racus, said.

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Norway confirms end of free non-EU tuition to dismay of student groups

The PIE News

“When it really mattered, neither the Socialist Left Party , the Labour Party nor the Center Party was willing to stand up for free higher education,” she continued. Speaking to The PIE News , Godal Dam outlined several concerns about the long term effects the decision could have on the education system.

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Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education

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Let’s learn everything in detail about CAA in the UAE Ministry of education. CAA is UAE’s official higher education quality assurance organization. The CAA is responsible for accrediting both public and private higher education institutions in the UAE, and it operates under the authority of the Ministry of Education.

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Edtech: Estonia’s emerging USP

The PIE News

Aside from having a wonderfully strange logo, Tiigrihüpe – or Tiger Leap – started a snowball of development for software in the newly-independent country; and education was no exception. Its founders began the project in 2018 with support from the Estonian ministry of education, under the umbrella of Start-Up Estonia.