Chinas elite kids learning class, minus struggle
Every weekday this summer, Rose Lei drove her daughter, Angelina, 5, to a golf complex at the edge of central Shanghai for a two-hour, $200 individual lesson with a teaching pro from Scotland.
But now that the school year has started, little Angelina will have to cut back on the golf, limiting herself to weekend sessions at a local driving range. In addition to her demanding school schedule, she will be attending private classes at FasTracKids, an after-school academy for children as young as 4 that bills itself as a junior M B A programme.
Lei, 35, a former information technology expert and the wife of a prosperous newspaper advertising executive, is part of a new generation of affluent parents here who are planning ways to cement their childrens place in a fast-emerging elite.
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Chinas demand for professionals will fill the business schools
As Chinas economy continues to grow even faster than predicted, so too does applicant demand for business education, and recruiter demand for a new wave of freshly minted MBA graduates.
GDP growth for the first quarter of the year may have hit 10.2 per cent, but the number of Chinese students applying to school looks set to rise even further.
International Graduate Management Admission Test volume reported by the Graduate Management Admissions Council shows an increase of 11 per cent, with Chinese registrations showing among the strongest growth. Clearly oil and steel are not
Chinas MBA monks mix business with prayer
The first group of monks in China to complete an MBA course have begun reflecting on their achievements, state media said on Wednesday.
Shanghais Jade Buddha Temple commissioned Jiaotong University to design a degree focusing on monastery management, to help its monks mix business with prayer.
The monks proved to be better students than their lay brethren, five of whom failed to get the degree due to excessive absence from class or failure to submit essays, the China Daily said.
Jade Buddha Monastery needs management just like a company, Chang Chun, the temples general manager and a
Letter: Youth sports should leave kids feeling better about selves
I had the opportunity to attend a lecture recently regarding how youth sports and its present structure and emphasis impact the children that participate (Too much pressure on youth sports, Easton Journal, April 7).
It was conducted here in Easton at the Richardson Olmsted School and the speaker was Bob Bigelow, an ex-MBA basketball player who has made a study of how youth sports programs can have an adverse effect on children participating, citing concerns regarding an over emphasis on winning, existence of elite teams predicated on perceived
Carnegie Mellon Universitys Civil and Environmental Engineering Department has received a $50,000 graduate fellowship from the Mao Yisheng Scientific and Technical Education Fund to honor the memory and technical excellence of Chinas pioneering bridge builder, Mao Yisheng.
Mao, who came to Pittsburgh to study steelmaking and bridge building, earned Carnegie Mellons first Ph.D. in 1919. The establishment of this fellowship was celebrated during a reception June 6, which was attended by Maos daughter, Madame Mao Yulin.
This fellowship is a wonderful way to assist future generations of engineering innovators to study at Carnegie Mellon and to contribute to its tradition
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The Return of the MBA Mom
Many women with degrees drop out of the workforce when they have kids. Now schools offer programs to ease them back into the corporate world
Mothers Day is a holiday that comes once a year for most people, but for B-schools looking to tap a growing market segment, offering programs for moms (and the occasional dad) returning to the workforce after raising kids is turning into a year-round business.
Nancy Hamilton is typical of the returnees these programs are trying to attact. After being out of the workforce for more than 20 years while she
Property administrators at two of the nations elite universities have learned to save time and money by replacing spread sheets and 12-hour workdays with Active real estate solutions from AMTdirect.
We were the first academic institution to sign-up with AMTdirect and weve been extremely pleased, said James Callahan, Senior Director for Johns Hopkins Real Estate in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University is in the fourth year of its working agreement with AMTdirect.
Property management and lease administration are big business for major schools like Johns Hopkins and Duke whose large campuses are also home to world-renowned teaching hospitals, clinics and related physician
Education Times brings you an array of interesting short-term training programmes. Take your pick.
With the schools closing down for summer holidays in the next few weeks, it’s that time of the year when students will have loads of leisure-time after a gruelling academic year. Here, a summer course could well be the hottest option available to you, to make the best use of your time as well as to come out much wiser after that. We present to you some of the popular choices to pursue summer courses.
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It's a Sunday afternoon and class time for 39-year-old IT worker Seema Shetty. Her feet curled under her in a swivel chair, she sits in front of a computer monitor, adjusts a set of headphones, and scribbles in a notebook. Shetty, who works for consulting firm Mastek in Mumbai, is in a virtual classroom in the Vile Parle suburb, where a dozen computers link students to some of India's elite management institutions. Today's class is a three-hour general management lecture, part of the online education course conducted by the Xavier Labor Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, in the remote northern Indian
Systems Evolution Executive Selected for Channel Elite MBA Program
Brad Wealand, VP of Consulting for Systems Evolution (OTCBB:SEVI) has been selected as a Channel Elite Member and is participating in an exclusive program created by CMP Technologys Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED) in association with the Babson College School of Executive Education.
Wealand is one of a select group of executives chosen for the 2006-2007 program offering information-technology (IT) solution providers the resources and expertise to strengthen all aspects of running and managing their businesses. The yearlong program will enhance members business practices, increase their visibility and foster
Harvard student Meghan Pasricha has been selected as one of the top 10 college women in the U.S. by Glamour magazine and LOréal Paris. Pasricha, 21, is the daughter of Sadhana and Ashok Pasricha of Hockessin. She received her award on Wednesday for excellence in academics and for her leadership to decrease tobacco use at Harvard, in Delaware and in India.
Pasricha started her anti-smoking crusade because of her asthma and because she finds it hard to breathe in a smoke-filled room. Because of her involvement, her mother started an anti-tobacco club at Goldey-Beacom College.
I fell in love with the tobacco
Four years into a job at a giant state-owned engineering firm in central China, Jennifer Liu asked her boss for permission to return to graduate school. She was refused.
Liu, a civil engineer with big ambitions, didnt give up. During a holiday in Beijing, she toured a handful of graduate schools and MBA programs. After returning, she persuaded her boss to allow her to apply to Tsinghua University, one of Chinas most prestigious universities.
I think some people thought I wouldnt pass the test, said the 30-year-old, sipping a cup of chicken soup at a swanky downtown Beijing restaurant.
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Four years into a job at a giant state-owned engineering firm in central China, Jennifer Liu asked her boss for permission to return to graduate school. She was refused.
Liu, a civil engineer with big ambitions, didnt give up. During a holiday in Beijing, she toured a handful of graduate schools and MBA programs. After returning, she persuaded her boss to allow her to apply to Tsinghua University, one of Chinas most prestigious universities.
I think some people thought I wouldnt pass the test, said the slender 30-year-old, sipping a cup of chicken soup at a swanky downtown Beijing restaurant.
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