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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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Though the inclusion of social and emotional learning (SEL) in mathematics has gained traction via provincial curricula for elementary learners in Ontario (Ministry of Education, 2020) and most recently, grade 9 students (Ministry of Education, 2021), there are limited discussions on the impact of SEL in mathematics for adult learners.

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

Faculty Focus

Though the inclusion of social and emotional learning (SEL) in mathematics has gained traction via provincial curricula for elementary learners in Ontario (Ministry of Education, 2020) and most recently, grade 9 students (Ministry of Education, 2021), there are limited discussions on the impact of SEL in mathematics for adult learners.

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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. The continuing trend of abolishing free access to education in Europe is deeply concerning.

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Dubai ELT has real “growth potential”

The PIE News

From the waiter, to say, a street sweeper, every human being speaks to you in English. Dubai is rapidly becoming one of the main education hubs in the world. Whether this will be seen through the UAE ministry of education’s “innovation strategy”, which was announced in February, is another matter.

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Edtech: Estonia’s emerging USP

The PIE News

Its founders began the project in 2018 with support from the Estonian ministry of education, under the umbrella of Start-Up Estonia. For a normal human, it looks like there is a student and there’s a university and they kind of need to meet each other.