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1520 600gm Mangos (what it means in China)

For governments worldwide, education is a major policy and spending area, so it’s inevitable they try to influence it as much as their remit allows. In most Western countries, scope is often limited by the structural and segmented nature of learning, e.g. Pre-school, K12, HE, FE, corporate learning, etc.  In China, however, the government (the […]

1 year ago Education More
 

An existential threat to Chinese edu companies?

The other 261 Chinese companies listed in the US (those on the NYSE alone have a market cap of about £1.1tn) are facing another existential threat – expulsion from US capital markets in 2024 unless they comply with the US Security and Exchange Commission’s new auditing standards. In May the SEC announced 80 NYSE-listed Chinese […]

1 year ago Education More
 

Ethics and edtech

Edtech and education are as full of hypocrisy, cant and mendacious action as any part of the economy. The sooner we accept this, the better we can, as individuals and as organisations,examine and calibrate our attitudes and ideas. The recent possible boycott BETT, is but one example. I had a minor role in raising the […]

1 year ago Education More
 

Edtech & ethics

People may make many incorrect assumptions – the existence of Big Foot, the infallibility of their lottery ‘system’, and always trust officials like police, politicians and priests. In my world you have to be a skeptical optimist, meaning that you should never assume that the words ethics and edtech should appear in the same sentence. […]

4 years ago Education More