A total of 240 million Chinese people have received higher education as a result of the country's historic strides in tertiary education development over the past decade, a senior education official said on Tuesday.
Not long ago, the Legislative Yuan passed the initial review of draft regulations on innovation in industry-university cooperation and talent cultivation in national key areas, which has drawn considerable attention and concern from students and teachers.
The proposal aims to bring the resources and thinking of the corporate sector to universities to jointly establish independent research schools to serve as “innovation sandboxes” and develop talent in key areas. These areas might include artificial intelligence, semiconductors, the circular economy and smart manufacturing, as well as new agriculture and finance.
As the draft legislation is geared toward pursuing industry-university innovation, certain aspects might be
Universities called upon to assist in vaccine roll-out
India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in a letter to the Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education, has asked for support from universities and higher education institutions to ensure the right information is disseminated to the public, reports
The Indian Express.
In the letter, Rajesh Bhushan, secretary for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, asked higher education institutions to support the vaccine “campaign roll-out with support from university network and online talk platforms as well as leverage points of large footfalls”.
The government is in the process of rolling out the vaccine for COVID-19. In the initial phase, the vaccine is being made available to frontline workers, healthcare workers, persons aged 50 years and above, and those below 50 with co-morbid conditions.