HONG KONG (Reuters) – Several of China’s top universities have announced plans to expand their undergraduate enrolment to prioritise what they called “national strategic needs” and develop talent in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI). The announcements come after Chinese universities launched artificial intelligence courses in February based on AI startup DeepSeek which has garnered…
Susan Alaimo | Special to MyCentralJersey.com Students can put their screen time to great use in the college application process by using mobile apps to garner a wealth of information. U.S. News & World Report has recently identified some of these particularly helpful apps. BigFuture School app by College Board, free on iPhone and Android…
Annual grants of HK$2,500 (US$321) for each of the nearly 800,000 students in Hong Kong will be cut, while spending on public universities will be slashed by HK$2.8 billion over the next three years, leaving parents unhappy about the way the government opted to tighten its belt. In an unprecedented move, the government also said…
China’s top universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese undergraduates abroad to skip traditional academic pathways and enrol directly into PhD programmes – as the US tightens funding for graduate studies and geopolitical tensions grow. It is a move that analysts have said reflects Beijing’s push to lure young academics from the United States. Fudan University, a…
A tech war is ultimately a talent war. By that metric, China may already have pulled ahead of the United States. Washington’s “small yard, high fence” strategy of restricting access to advanced semiconductors and other key technologies may have a short-term impact. However, it is really the brains, not the machines, who will in the…
A record number of college students will graduate in China next year as Beijing strives to put the world’s second-largest economy on firmer ground. The education ministry anticipates a record 12.22 million graduates, a figure larger than the population of Ohio and 430,000 more than the number of graduates this year, which also set a…
閱讀中文版本 The three measures include expanding the list of eligible universities under the TTPS, extending the validity period of the first visas of Category A applications under the TTPS, as well as enhancing the assessment criteria of the General Points Test under the QMAS. Following the announcement in this year’s Policy Address on the reforms in various aspects…
A major global university ranking company has said the city’s new “Study in Hong Kong” campaign launched at an opportune time given the fee rises, quotas and visa problems experienced at institutions in some traditionally popular destinations in the West. But Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British-based education information firm, said Hong Kong needed to put…
It is one of the world’s most prestigious universities, training the top engineers and scientists of the future. But a recent move by Switzerland’s ETH Zurich (Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) to restrict admission of students from countries including China has been heavily criticised, with one Chinese scientist who spent years working in the country…