Bryant University is set to strengthen ties with China by signing new partnership agreements with two universities when a delegation led by a senior Chinese education official visits the private school in Smithfield over the weekend.
Deloitte estimó el año pasado que el sector de la enseñanza privada -que incluye tutorías después de clases, preparación para exámenes, universidades privadas, educación preescolar y la educación permanente- alcanzará un tamaño de mercado de 102,000 millones de dólares en 2015. La capacitación en idioma inglés por sí sola ha alcanzado un tamaño de mercado de 4,800 millones de dólares.
A Catholic group insisted it would press ahead with its bid to build a private university in Fanling as the government warned that basic infrastructure alone could cost HK$400 million.
Private educational institutions are reaching a new level of development, which requires a revised set of government policies and rules, national political advisers said.
The former Hang Seng School of Commerce, founded with initial funding from Hang Seng Bank that provided A-level courses and business education, changed its purpose and was renamed in 2010 as a provider of degree programmes in business, journalism, English and translation.
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business will move its Asia Executive M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong, making it the latest institution to move a program away from the city-state after setting down roots there. The Singapore campus, which opened in 2000, will stop accepting executive M.B.A. candidates, though the university said in its announcement that it was exploring space options for holding some activities in Singapore after the program moves.
Wellesley College will invite Xia Yeliang, a Chinese economics professor recently fired by Peking University and an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights in China, to be a visiting fellow.