A Common Anglophone Curriculum under the West African Examinations Council

By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews ACCESS ARCHIVED WEBINAR ON WAEC EXAMINATIONS Established in 1952, the West African Examinations Council, known commonly as WAEC, is a regional examination body headquartered in Accra, Ghana that conducts standardized school-level examinations in the five Anglophone…

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The Booming International Schools Sector

By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews The demand for an English-medium international school education has been growing at a steady clip over the last 20 years to the point that the sector brought in an estimated US$34.4 billion in 2013, up from…

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Secondary Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong Secondary Education

In this article, we offer an introduction to Hong Kong’s New Senior Secondary (NSS) academic structure and curriculum, in addition to the new credentials and transcripts from the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE), first issued in the fall of 2012. This profile builds on an earlier webinar by Yuki Inoue, WES’ Asia-Pacific Group Leader.

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Senior Secondary Mathematics Education in China

Zhenzhen Yang, Credential Evaluator (Asia and Middle East) and China Specialist, WES Chinese applications and enrollments at American universities and colleges have been skyrocketing over the last five years, and especially so at the undergraduate level. According to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) latest…

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Secondary Education in Vietnam

By WES Staff CLICK TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN VIETNAMVietnam is currently one of the fastest growing sources of international students for U.S. institutions of higher education. In academic year 2010/11, Vietnam sent the eighth largest cohort of tertiary students to the…

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