Cheng Jei-cheng

The Moodle Education Association released a survey in May showing more than 90% of Taiwanese university presidents believe that students from the mainland should be allowed to study in Taiwan. About 200,000 Chinese students are studying abroad.

Taiwan has been trying to catch up with the global trend to attract students from the mainland. The government has decided to allow the students to gain admission to Taiwan universities and to recognize their education credentials from universities on the mainland starting next year.

Taiwan Minister of Education Cheng Jei-cheng said the number of students from the mainland will be capped at under 1% of university vacancies with no scholarships available.
More HERE.
Source: Taiwan News

    State Councilor
      Liu Yandong

Universities have conferred doctoral degrees on 240,000 people in China over the past 30 years according to the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

The Council told a conference that 1.87 million master’s degrees have been awarded, as well as 14.15 million bachelor’s degrees.

State Councilor Liu Yandong said the post-graduate students nurtured by China have become a leading force in different sectors. She urged the improvement of the academic degree system to improve the country’s base of human resources.
Source: China View

MBA AVIC job fair

China’s large state-owned enterprises have begun recruiting among graduate students. China Aviation Industrial Corporation took the lead by holding a job fair.

About 80 companies under the control of the China Aviation Industrial Corporation had more than 7,000 posts at the the job fair in Beijing. The group plans to provide 12,000 posts in total to graduate students.

About 2,000 students from Beihang University brought resumes to the job fair.

Yue Xiaodai, graduate student of Beihang University, said, ‘I didn’t consider the salary issue, it’s a good surprise.’

An employer said, ‘We have received 100 copies of resumes, graduate students take up 80 percent. We are satisfied with 70 to 80 students.’

In the coming months, 12,000 graduates will take up posts provided by the China Aviation Industrial Corporation in several cities.
Source: CCTV (and, appropriately, there is a video)

Chuah Chee Meng speaks about Malaysia's education scene

There will be more than 10,000 students from China in Malaysiathis year: a 30% rise in new arrivals.

Malaysian embassy education counselor Chuah Chee Meng said that about 4,000 new enrolments were estimated between January and October pushing the total to 9,081 compared to 5,962 last year.

Three quarters of the new students were registered with private institutions.

Chuah Chee Meng said, ‘The overall figure for the year will be higher because of one more intake in December and I predict the number
will go up to 10,300.’

The increase is attributed to the global financial crisis, stronger renminbi and the stronger promotion of Malaysia as a preferred destination for education both by the embassy’s education unit and the more than a dozen Malaysian private education institutions in China which offer twinning programs and foundation courses.
Source: Bernama.com

      Who wants to be a billionaire?

The China University Alumni Association (CUAA) released the list of the universities that taught billionaires.

Peking University topped the list of the richest Chinese college graduates with 35 billionaire alumni.

Zhejiang University and Tsinghua University ranked second and third, with 23 and 22 billionaire alumni respectively.

Zhao Deguo, director of the association, said, ‘These billionaire alumni serve to testify that knowledge creates fortune.’

Of the 1,500 billionaires on China’s four major rich lists over the past decade, 30% of them were university graduates, the association said.

The four lists are Hurun China Rich List; Forbes China Rich List; the Southern Weekend Newspaper’s List of New Rich in China (Mainland) and the New Fortune Magazine’s List of China’s 500 Richest.
Source: China Daily

    You do not need an iPod
    for an MBA. But it seems
     to know a lot about them.

There may be as many as 100,000 foreign students studying in China.  In 2002 the figure was 80,000 and it has increased more than somewhat since then.

Almost 500 Chinese universities, mainly in Shanghai and Bejing, accept foreign students. The top 5 universities with the largest foreign students are Beijing Language and Culture Center, Fudan, Peking, Tsinghua and Shanghai universities.

The University of Maryland`s Smith School of Business offers a degree, custom and certification programs at learning centers within Beijing and Shanghai. Smith`s first executive MBA program class started in January 2003 and graduated in spring 2004.
The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee`s School of Business Administration has recently launched an EMBA program in Beijing in partnership with Motorola for staff of Motorola`s China operations.
The University of British Columbia, working tTogether with the top-ranked Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, is also offering an International MBA in China. Besides having the same curriculuam as its Canadian MBA, professors from the University of British Columbia teach all of the courses.
The Cass EMBA 2-year part-time off-campus program by City University from Britian has been launched in collaboration with Bank of China and the Shanghai University of Finance & Economics.
Britain`s Nottingham University is the first foreign university to establish a physical campus in Ningbo in September 2004. Nottingham Ningbo`s degree is comparable with its degree from the British campus with all courses conducted in English.

The Chinese government is actively promoting more educational tie-ups in China to develop university graduates who will be better geared for the many multinational corporations operating in China and spearhead economic growth. Currently, there are about 700 such jointly managed educational programs in China. Please carefully note the source of this story. It does not in any way diminish its importance but it IS unusual.
Source: The iPod Best Deal Center

          Albert A. Angehrn

Change is in the air and Chinese businesses must respond to it. Yet, according to Albert A. Angehrn, INSEAD Professor of Information Technology and Director of the Center for Advanced Learning Technologies, the sad truth is that the vast majority of change projects in organizations fail, some miserably.

While there’s no lack of knowledge as to how to address change initiatives, Angehrn says we have not been successful in translating that knowledge into practice. That is moving from the comfortable area of ‘knowing’ to one of actually ‘doing.’

Enter the LingHe Simulation, a computer-based interactive multimedia simulation that models the dynamics of organizational change in a typical Chinese business environment. Its purpose: to simulate real-life scenarios faced by Chinese and foreign managers who want, or need, to implement organizational change.

Think of it as War of the Worlds with business inserted. Which is, of course, nonsense. It is much more serious, if less entertaining, than that splendid game.

LingHe Simulation is modeled after the Executive Information System (EIS) Simulation, which has already been used extensively as a learning tool in MBA and corporate management training programs in Western organizations, LingHe is unique in that it is tailor-made for the China market.

While the overall evaluation of the LingHe Simulation among groups of Chinese managers has consistently showed positive feedback regarding its realism, Angehrn says more substantive testing is required.
Much more HERE
Source: Insead Knowledge

            Looking for jobs;
             soon online

To help college graduates find employment, China’s Ministry of Education has planned 13 on-line job fairs in co-operation with 10 other ministries starting now and carrying on through June, 2009.

It will also recruit 30,000 college students as rural teachers next year, a figure that is nearly equal to 2006 and 2007 added together.

The move is part of the ministry’s drive to channel graduates into vacant jobs in the country’s remote, less-developed western regions.

Chinese college graduates face greater difficulty finding jobs these days due to the impact of the world financial crisis and to the returning graduates from overseas who have the added advantage of job experience and a fluent second language.

Graduates are also being encouraged to join the military where they would have the chance to study in army-affiliated institutes and get quick promotions.

Looking up information on the army on the Internet shows that it has changed amazingly and is still changing into a modern and well-educated operation. Although it still breeds pigs and grows vegetables.
Source: China.com

      University students

More than 93% of the 41 public universities and colleges in Shanghai have established central control rooms to safeguard student safety.

Officials from the Shanghai Education Commission said a total of RMB182 million ($26.59 million) has been spent on campus security since 2007 by those universities and colleges.

Altogether 12,784 camera monitoring devices, 7,986 intrusion detection devices and 2,438 access control systems had been installed by the end of October.

One wonders what all of these surveillance devices will have on traditional university pastimes which two students, one of each sex.

The installation of these devices is part of a three-year plan which began in 2007.

Yang Qiwei, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Education Commission, said, ‘With the expansion of universities and colleges in both recruitment and branch campuses, campus security is meeting new challenges.

‘The current students were mostly born during the 1980s and the 1990s and grew up in a relaxed living environment. They are in need of education and guidance to achieve a high level of knowledge of what to do in an emergency.’
Source: CRIEnglish.com

     Sheraton LaGuardia holds
     job fair to bring talent
      home to China

Nearly 1,000 would-be turtles packed the ballroom of the Sheraton LaGuardia East hotel in Flushing Queens recently, where they pitched themselves at a job fair for opportunities in Shanghai, China’s financial hub.

The worst financial crisis in decades has left the U.S. economy mired in a recession claiming more than 2 million jobs so far.

Some cities and firms in China are quick to exploit the opportunity to lure back native talent. The fair was led by the Shanghai municipal government and organized by about two dozen banks, insurers and securities firms from the city, including the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Earlier this month, Nanjing in Jiangsu province in eastern China held similar events in several major cities in the U.S., which attracted hundreds of people.

So many sea turtles (hai gui in Mandarin) have returned home that the people of Beijing, Shanghai and elsewhere have invented a new name for those returnees who cannot find a job: ’seaweed’ (hai dai).
Much more HERE.
Source: International Herald Tribune