2017/12/28 |
Young Chinese Students Start to Shun STEM Subjects
Liberal arts colleges are arguing for a comeback of so-called classical education and pivoting away from the current fixation on technical degrees. Chinese students have been paying attention.
2017/11/21 |
Has Taiwan’s ESL Market Hit a Tipping Point?
Taiwan's English industry is hitting a barrier — a lack of kids.
2017/11/14 |
Goodbye Confucius, Hello Matzu: Is Taiwan Becoming a Chinese-Language Education Hub?
Taiwan's political environment is making it more attractive for international students.
2017/10/09 |
Real Solutions for Plastic Problems
Plastic bags and bottles are a global menace, but the emergence of microplastics will test the policy courage of governments in new ways, write Asit K Biswas and Kris Hartley.
2017/10/03 |
Sugar, Spice, Flowerlike: Shanghai Girls Get Schooled in Gender
Girls’ textbooks raise questions about gender roles in contemporary China.
2017/10/02 |
A Pop-up Study on Sex Education in China
The majority of respondents for a survey agreed that sex education in China should have Chinese characteristics — not completely western models, such as Comprehensive Sex Education, instead selectively borrowing some western models without mentioning some controversies.
2017/10/01 |
Why a Western Education Remains Valuable in China
Chinese commentators who deride overseas study as too expensive know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
2017/09/26 |
Studying in the US Post-Cultural Revolution
Visiting Chinese scholar reflects on his experience at the dawn of a new age in Sino-US relations.
2017/09/25 |
The Banned 1910s Japanese Magazine that Started a Feminist Movement
'Bluestockings' was the pioneering feminist magazine for young women of Meiji-era Japan.
2017/09/18 |
Finding Middle Ground Between US and Chinese Classrooms
Journalist and author Lenora Chu on raising a ‘little soldier’ in the Chinese school system.
2017/09/11 |
Chinese Cities Should Open Their Gates to the Children of Migrants
It’s time we rewarded rural laborers’ contributions to their adopted cities by giving their children a proper education.
2017/09/01 |
The Scholar Spreading Vietnamese Culture Through Food
Linh Nguyen shares her insights on the Vietnamese cooking culture.
2017/08/26 |
ILLUSTRATION: The Art of Making of Incense Sticks in Taiwan
How are the religious incense sticks made?
2017/08/14 |
Bringing the World’s Great Museums to 200,000 Children in China
An entrepreneur hatches a plan to make 10 iconic museums accessible to China’s working-class families.
2017/08/08 |
The Dilemma of Vietnam's Foreign-Educated Grads
For those who have left and seen Vietnam through different eyes, the time will come when they must decide what they want: to stay abroad or return home.
2017/08/03 |
How China Manages Its Super-sized Classrooms
With over 5,000 students in a space meant for 640, teachers, administrators and parents at a Henan primary school are struggling to cope.
2017/08/02 |
Rohaya-Selamet Marriage Isn't Funny, but Disturbing and Unlawful
'If we continue misusing it for the sake of justifying child marriage or abusive polygamous relationship, then the joke is on us.'
2017/08/02 |
Education Charity in China Struggles to Soar Amid Rural Brain Drain
The Adream Foundation serves 3 million underprivileged students but is hampered by top teaching talent fleeing to cities.