Konnetwork

Konnetwork Konnetwork is a newly established company based in South Korea, which helps educators find the right agents for their schools’ international programmes.

Konnetwork stands for Korea, Connect and Network. Konnetwork is a newly established company based in Seoul, South Korea, which helps educators find the right agents for their schools’ international programmes. This new way of marketing was established by Mr. Kidong Kim, the secretary of KOSA, and Mr Geunsu Lee, the director of Top Class Study. Taylor made service

1. Airport transfer (arrival on S

unday)

2. Hotel (6 nights inc breakfast)

3. Between 15 and 20 meetings at the offices of the agents (Monday to Friday)

4. Use of the top quality office

5. Transportation

6. Interpreter

7. 24 hrs free Wi-Fi

8. Seoul sightseeing (Saturday)

9. Airport transfer (departure on Saturday)

* The schedule and the agents’ information will be provided two weeks prior to the meeting start date..

23/04/2015

Feedback from recent participant- Queen Margaret's School

in K

Employers Want To Hire College Graduates With These MajorsApril 21, 2015Peter JacobsEmployers are more interested in hir...
21/04/2015

Employers Want To Hire College Graduates With These Majors

April 21, 2015
Peter Jacobs

Employers are more interested in hiring college graduates with a business degree than any other major, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Almost 70% of the 161 companies that responded to NACE's survey said they target business majors. The questionnaire asked employers representing industries such as agriculture, energy, and retail "to rate the academic disciplines they target for their college hires," according to Forbes — where we first saw this report.

Forbes describes NACE as a non-profit group that "links college placement offices with employers."

By the final day of Konnetwork-QMS, we had 12 meetings with high quality agencies and 3 meetings with potential students...
02/04/2015

By the final day of Konnetwork-QMS, we had 12 meetings with high quality agencies and 3 meetings with potential students.

We really appreciate that Mr. Iqbal Parekh was with us with an active mind and we hope QMS will get good news from the Korean market soon!

After the first konnetwork day, we could even arrange meetings with potential students for QMS!Our main goal at Konnetwo...
02/04/2015

After the first konnetwork day, we could even arrange meetings with potential students for QMS!

Our main goal at Konnetwork is 'to pick the right agencies for educators' but we also provide B2C meetings if there are some students in our current database who are a good match with the institution.

Hope these 3 lovely young students will have great new life at QMS from next semester!

On the first day, we had 4 meetings with pre-selected agencies. As Konnetwork's key value, all the meetings were held in...
02/04/2015

On the first day, we had 4 meetings with pre-selected agencies. As Konnetwork's key value, all the meetings were held in the agent's office.

4th week of March, Konnetwork half week schedule candidate - Queen Margaret's School in Canada(QMS)Thank you for applica...
02/04/2015

4th week of March, Konnetwork half week schedule candidate - Queen Margaret's School in Canada(QMS)

Thank you for application.
Our team will do its best to support QMS's successful marketing in Korea!

Student visa system fraud uncovered by BBC Panorama.The Home Office has suspended English language tests run by a major ...
22/04/2014

Student visa system fraud uncovered by BBC Panorama.

The Home Office has suspended English language tests run by a major firm after BBC Panorama uncovered systematic fraud in the student visa system.

Secret filming of government-approved exams needed for a visa shows candidates having tests faked for them.

ETS, which sets the exams but does not appoint the invigilators, told Panorama it "does everything it can to detect and prevent" cheating.

Home Secretary Theresa May said the BBC's evidence was "very shocking".

Panorama saw candidates for tests set by ETS, one of the largest language testing firms in the world, being replaced by "fake sitters" and having answers read out to them.

For the last year, the programme has been filming undercover, following a network of agents helping people obtain student visa extensions through fraud.

The UK Home Office no longer accepts ETS testsThe UK Home Office has not extended the licence agreement with ETS (Educat...
22/04/2014

The UK Home Office no longer accepts ETS tests

The UK Home Office has not extended the licence agreement with ETS (Educational Testing Service) to provide Secure English Language Testing such as TOEFL and TOEIC, which were most widely used by visa applicants seeking to prove their English language level as part of the visa process.

The decision was made after BBC uncovered systematic fraud in February and the license ended on 5th April 2014.

While referencing the fact that only fraud in its TOEIC exam was ever uncovered – and the continued high security standards of its more popular TOEFL exam – the company said, “we’ve made this decision in response to the security challenges portrayed in the BBC program.

As a result, TOEIC® and TOEFL iBT® testing will no longer be offered for UK visa-granting purposes and the Home Office informed many stakeholders of the situation on 17 April.

Applicants wishing to make an application should take a test with an alternative provider and the details of these providers can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/304853/approved_english_language_tests.pdf

Stanford Research - Benefits for English-language learners of two-language instructional programs.A partnership between ...
22/04/2014

Stanford Research - Benefits for English-language learners of two-language instructional programs.

A partnership between the Stanford Graduate School of Education and San Francisco Unified School District examines the merits of four approaches to teaching English language learners.

The researchers identified a group of about 18,000 English-learner students in the San Francisco school system who entered kindergarten as early as the fall of 2001. They were enrolled in four distinct linguistic instructional environments, and the researchers followed their progress for 10 years.

The first focuses on how long it takes non-English-speaking students to reach English proficiency and be reclassified out of English learner (EL) status. The second looks at the same students' academic trajectories over time, comparing outcomes of four English-learner instructional program types.

The results show that while students in English immersion programs perform better in the short term, over the long term students in classrooms taught in two languages not only catch up to their English immersion counterparts, but they eventually surpass them, both academically and linguistically.

Ethnic Koreans at Osaka SchoolOSAKA – For decades, schools for ethnic Koreans living in Japan have been divided along pr...
17/04/2014

Ethnic Koreans at Osaka School

OSAKA – For decades, schools for ethnic Koreans living in Japan have been divided along pro-Pyongyang or pro-Seoul lines, with their curricula reflecting the differing political ideologies in North and South Korea.

In 2008, however, a new type of school opened in Osaka in response to Korean residents’ desire for an education that, while emphasizing their roots in the Korean Peninsula, is not restricted by differences across the 38th parallel.

Most of the 86 students from the seventh to 12th grades at Korea International School in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, are Koreans living in Japan. But there are also Japanese students and people who have returned after stints abroad.

Nowadays, 4 in every 5 Koreans in Japan are believed to have at least one parent with Japanese nationality, unlike previous decades. Many citizens of Korean descent also have assumed successful roles in academia, business and other circles in Japanese society.

As a result, there has been growing frustration and dissatisfaction that the education offered at Korean schools simply imitates that of the “home” country — that is, North or South Korea, depending on the school’s affiliation — according to Om Chang Joon, vice principal at Korea International School.

Established in response to such frustrations, the new school in Osaka has adopted a curriculum based on Japanese educational guidelines, with the majority of classes taught in Japanese. It also has classes on Korean language and history, and attempts to cover the peninsula as a whole.

In one recent eighth-grade history class, Om taught about agriculture during the Korean dynasties. He also teaches his students about post-Korean War issues on the peninsula and encourages them to discuss potential ways to resolve the conflicts in class.

The school also makes an effort to address issues involving diplomatic clashes or differences of opinion, instead of avoiding them. When taking up the territorial dispute over the tiny islets known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, Om and a Japanese teacher engaged in a three-hour debate in front of the students, defending both the Japanese and Korean sovereignty claims.

Foreign students face stricter UK visa regulationsSince April 2012, foreign students have faced stricter visa regulation...
17/04/2014

Foreign students face stricter UK visa regulations

Since April 2012, foreign students have faced stricter visa regulations, in an effort to cut down on bogus immigrants.

But the government stresses that there is no cap on the number of people legitimately coming to the UK to study.

The number of students studying science, technology and maths (Stem) subjects - including courses such as medicine, architecture and computer science - fell by more than 10% from 58,815 in 2010-11 to 52,905 in 2012-13.

The committee's report said: "It was put to us on numerous occasions that it was not the immigration rules as such that were deterring students, but their perception of the rules as a result of overblown rhetoric from ministers and sometimes inflammatory media coverage in the UK and in overseas countries."

It added: "The UK was seen as a destination that was unwelcoming to some international students."

But the report said the evidence "pointed to difficulties beyond simply those of perception", with the "complexity and instability" of the immigration rules also posing problems.

"The UK's offer to prospective international students remains a good one; it is founded on academic excellence, but it has been diminished by perceived and real barriers so that the overall offer is not as competitive as it needs to be," the peers said.

Ministers have set out plans to increase the number of international students by up to 20% over the next five years.

Banning the Sun on university campusesLeeds joined 29 other university campuses that have chosen to remove the Sun from ...
16/04/2014

Banning the Sun on university campuses

Leeds joined 29 other university campuses that have chosen to remove the Sun from sale (the most recent being Staffordshire), deeming it too offensive for the general consumption of its students.

Of course there may be a multitude of reasons why the broadly leftwing student body finds the Sun unacceptable, from its treatment of asylum seekers and its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, to its Page 3.As a commercial decision, its removal from sale makes sense for the students' unions.

Unlike the Guardian and the Times, which offer a subsidised price to students, the Sun knows its audience lies elsewhere and doesn't need to convert the student masses.

Out of a print run of 2m, the loss of seven copies sold each week on Leeds' campus to university staff members is not going to have any impact on David Dinsmore's editorial choices.

Online student tabloid The Tab dubbed 2013 The Year of the Ban, as campuses across the country eliminated various things that offended a vocal minority. Much as this sector of students might be giving itself a pat on the back for exercising their right to remove the Sun from sale, it is too easy a choice and demonstrates a refusal to engage with the world that lies beyond the bubble of a university campus.

Support the No More Page 3 campaign; lobby and educate the misogynistic masses; don't buy the Sun in solidarity with the people of Liverpool or because you empathise with the plight of asylum seekers.

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