China

More foreigners study in China

May 30th, 2006

International students in China exceeded 140,000 in 2005 and increased by 32% compared to the number in 1998, according to the press conference held by the Ministry of Education on Monday.
The reasons are that China is more and more influential internationally and the quality of Chinese higher education is improving.
During the last 10 years, the [...]

China to fund more scholars to study abroad

May 30th, 2006

The Chinese government is to fund more scholars to study abroad to help meet the demand for skills in its social and economic development, the Ministry of Education said in Beijng Monday.
Cao Guoxing, director-general with the Ministry’s International Cooperation and Exchanges Department, said the central budget allocated 2.2 billion yuan (275 million U.S. dollars) to [...]

University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) to deliver online courses to China

April 18th, 2006

Moving forward in its efforts to enhance educational opportunities and advance technology in higher education, the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) will design a model for delivering online courses to China via streaming audio and video, discussions, blogs, wikis and other creative educational techniques.
UMC was recently awarded a $10,000 Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) grant to [...]

China Education Alliance Announces Two of China’s Top Educational Experts Join the Company

March 22nd, 2006

China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCBB:CEDA – News; “CEDA”), one of the leading e-learning enterprises engaged in the online education business in China, today announced they have hired professor Liansheng Zhang as a consultant to Harbin Zhonghelida Education & Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of China Education Alliance, Inc., and Hongmei Wang as principal [...]

China Education Alliance Announces Release of Online Intelligence Learning Game in China

March 9th, 2006

China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCBB:CEDA – News), one of the leading e-learning enterprises engaged in the online education business in China, today announced that they have released the first online intelligence game in China, called “Wealth Island Trip.” The interactive game is designed to teach children from ages six to eighteen.
Game designers conducted their open [...]

China to increase education spending to 4 percent of GDP

March 1st, 2006

China plans to increase education spending to four percent of
GDP, from 2.79 percent, emphasizing that a well-educated population was “strategically important” to modernization.
The government also plans to complete the task of providing free nine-year compulsory education to all students in China in five years, Education Minister Zhou Ji told a news conference.
“Frankly speaking, the percentage [...]

China Education Alliance Reiterates 2005 Financial Guidance

February 22nd, 2006

China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCBB:CEDA), one of the leading e-learning enterprises engaged in the online education business in China, today reiterated existing guidance for 2005 and provided financial expectations for 2006.
For 2005, the Company expects revenue to be $3.0-$3.5 million and expects net income to be $1.6-$1.7 million.
For 2006, the Company expects revenue to increase [...]

Rising High School Seniors Offered Opportunity to Study in China

February 17th, 2006

Rising high school seniors from across the Southeast have a chance to study Chinese culture and language free of charge this summer as part of the University of Mississippi Summer Language Institute for American Youth.
This all-expenses-paid experience takes place over six weeks – June 10-July 30 – at Qingdao University in Qingdao, China. Up to [...]

Kornberg Associates Architects Opens Tokyo Office

November 19th, 2008

Kornberg Associates Architects has opened a Tokyo office. The company has also been retained by the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) to help design a new government funded scientific research campus and graduate university. Ken Kornberg, president and founder, made the announcement.
“Having a presence in Japan opens up many doors for us and [...]

Obama – The Postmodern Coup

November 7th, 2008

Barack Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won [...]