ARTICLES

18 Oct 2022

Religious Dress in Schools Polemic and Indonesia’s Philosophical Vacuum

Max Lane

The popularity of a recent image lamenting the wearing of conservative dress, particularly headscarves, by girls in Indonesia’s state schools have highlighted philosophical tensions in society and politics, with no easy answers.

26 Apr 2022

ASEAN’s Consumers on the Move: Tertiary Education

Melinda Martinus

ASEAN’s growing consumer market for tertiary education is an encouraging trend that has potential upsides for future regional development. ASEAN’s demand for university qualifications will create opportunities for foreign and local institutions to set up more regional branches.

ASEAN Education

22 Mar 2022

China and Chinese Overseas: A Softer Soft Policy Needed?

Tan Chee-Beng

This Long Read describes China’s soft power in relation to Chinese overseas who as a whole constitute a potentially important resource for it.

ASEAN-China Relations China Education

11 Mar 2022

Cambodia’s Education System: Looking Back to Move Forward

Kimkong Heng

Cambodia has set ambitious goals to become an upper middle income country by 2030. To achieve this, it needs to rethink its education system to upgrade the skills of its workforce so the country can become a knowledge-intensive society.

Cambodia Education

11 Mar 2022

School Closures and Child Labour: The Pandemic’s Social Cost

Thai Long|Phi Minh Hong

The disruption of face-to-face education and internet inaccessibility may cause children to drop out of school permanently. Children who leave school and start working face greater difficulty resuming their education in the future.

ASEAN Child Labour COVID-19 Education

11 Feb 2022

Chinese Students in Thailand: Cash Cow, At a Cost

Aranya Siriphon|Fanzura Banu

Thailand is reaping the benefits of a steady stream of Chinese students being enrolled in its universities. The trend, however, is not cost-free.

China Education Thailand

A screenshot from an online meeting from the School of Chemical and Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia during the Plant Design Project Competition on 4 July, 2021. (Photo School of Chemical and Energy Engineering UTM/ Facebook)

15 Jul 2021

Policymakers' View

Malaysia’s Higher Education Sector: Time to Soar to a Higher Plane

Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin

The pandemic presents a plum opportunity for extensive reforms in Malaysia’s higher education sector.

Education Malaysia Policymakers’ View

16 Jun 2021

Post-Coup Myanmar: Alternative Education Models Urgently Needed

Courtney T. Wittekind

Myanmar’s educational sector is turning out to be a new front in an ensuing battle between the country’s Civil Disobedience Movement and the military junta. Outside of the state-run education system, however, the number of viable options for students are few and far between.

Aung San Suu Kyi Education Myanmar

22 Mar 2021

Pancasila and the “Missing Word”

Syafiq Hasyim

Islamic political voices, include Vice-President Ma’ruf, force the word religion into the draft 2035 national education roadmap.

Education Indonesia Pancasila Religion

4 Mar 2021

Cambodia Embraces China’s Controversial Confucius Institutes

Chheang Vannarith

China’s Confucius Institutes have been vilified in the West, but they have gained much traction in Cambodia. This is not surprising, given Cambodia is one of China's closest allies in Southeast Asia.

Cambodia Cambodia-China Relations China Education