(1 Apr 2021) Australia’s leading research universities have played down calls to ramp up their presence in the crowded field of online education, saying studying in Australia is the main drawcard for many international students. Group of Eight chief executive Vicki Thomson said the coronavirus pandemic had given universities a “proof of concept” that…
(26 Mar 2021) Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) just release the “2020 White Paper of ICT on Education in Korea”, which outlines the ICT on all levels of education in Korea. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: ICT in primary and secondary education Chapter 2: ICT in educational administrative and financial services Chapter…
(3 Apr 2021) Growing numbers of Chinese universities are dropping the requirement for PhD students to publish papers in journals in order to graduate. It has already been dropped from graduation requirements at the country’s pre-eminent institutions, Tsinghua and Peking universities, as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences. And now there is pressure for…
(1 Apr 2021) National Diet Library, Japan is announcing its new vision which will set the policy for the next five years, “National Diet Library Vision 2021–2025: The Digital Shift at the National Diet Library.” Seven initiatives that are intended over the next five years to better connect information resources with intellectual activities under the…
(24 Feb 2021) On February 16, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a sub-decree on the establishment of a national internet gateway which would create a single point of entry for internet traffic regulated by a government-appointed operator. While the specifics of its implementation remain unclear, the move exacerbates ongoing concerns about internet freedom in the country…
(25 Mar 2021) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the National University of Laos (NUOL) today signed a memorandum of agreement to expand access to ADB’s research and other publications to a wider audience in the country. The agreement was signed by ADB Country Director for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) Sonomi Tanaka…
(25 Mar 2021) Today is the first anniversary of the start of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Level 4 COVID-19 lockdown. At this time, one year ago today, one in five of the world’s population (around 1.7 billion people) were also experiencing some form of lockdown, including cancellations of public events and gatherings, stay-at-home recommendations and/or orders,…
(March 2021) Ten years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Japan, it caused widespread damage to the eastern coastal region, especially in the northeast. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami took a heavy toll of lives and caused massive damage to buildings and facilities, including…
(17 Mar 2021) The Tang Tho Chamber, a national library under the Nguyen Dynasty, the last Vietnamese kings, has begun welcoming visitors in central Hue town after being closed for 75 years. The chamber displays more than 70,000 documents in diverse genres, including books in the ancient Vietnamese script of Han Nom, ancient bibliographies,…
(18 Mar 2021) Digital library usage spiked amid the pandemic last year but closures during the circuit breaker meant overall loans fell from 40.5 million in 2019 to 29.2 million. The number of Singapore residents using the National Library Board’s (NLB) digital channels went up by 46.5 per cent from 2019, its year-in-review report noted…