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Globalization has effected tremendous change to the character and
functions of education worldwide. This unique book focuses on its
impact upon Hong Kong and Singapore, and how these two East Asian
Tigers have responded to the strong global tide of marketization in
shaping and developing their education policies. The authors
discuss the way in which increasingly prominent tides of
marketization, privatization, corporatization and decentralization
have influenced the governance and management of education in these
two Asian economies. They aim to identify and examine the crucial
socio-historical, socio-economic and socio-political factors for
education reforms initiated in the two societies in recent years.
Ka-Ho Mok and Jason Tan examine the education policy developments
of these two cities, to draw wider conclusions as to how
nation-states and/or local governments react and respond to the
growing impact of globalization. Globalization and Marketization in
Education will draw an interested readership from education policy
researchers, policymakers and administrators. Scholars of public
policy, and Asian, development and education studies will also find
the book of special interest and value.
This book presents an improved design for service provisioning and
allocation models that are validated through running genome
sequence assembly tasks in a hybrid cloud environment. It proposes
approaches for addressing scheduling and performance issues in big
data analytics and showcases new algorithms for hybrid cloud
scheduling. Scientific sectors such as bioinformatics, astronomy,
high-energy physics, and Earth science are generating a tremendous
flow of data, commonly known as big data. In the context of growing
demand for big data analytics, cloud computing offers an ideal
platform for processing big data tasks due to its flexible
scalability and adaptability. However, there are numerous problems
associated with the current service provisioning and allocation
models, such as inefficient scheduling algorithms, overloaded
memory overheads, excessive node delays and improper error handling
of tasks, all of which need to be addressed to enhance the
performance of big data analytics.
Over the last two decades, the range of curricular offerings in
Singapore has diversified almost beyond the ability of teacher
preparation systems to cope. Teacher training has evolved from
informal to formal, and from multiple 'providers' to a single
institution responsible for pre-service teacher education. Teacher
Preparation in Singapore is a non-celebratory and
non-institution-based account of teacher preparation written with a
critical academic lens. Contributing to the historiography of
Singapore, as well as to the general history of teacher education,
this book discusses the history of teacher preparation in Singapore
from the colonial era, when Singapore was the centre of British
Malaya, to the present day. It includes the pre-professional era of
an informal approach to teacher education before the establishment
of formal teacher training, the role of the colonial state and
post-colonial state in the provision of teacher education, and
issues such as policy borrowing, diffusion of educational
philosophies, and developments paralleling those in the United
Kingdom and elsewhere. This is a relevant and important book for
researchers of education history, comparative and international
education, and teacher education in Singapore.
This edited volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of primary
science education across six East-Asian regions; namely, the
People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Republic of China,
Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore. While news of educational
policies, classroom teaching, assessment, and other educational
innovations here often surface in the international media, this
book brings together for the first time relevant information
regarding educational systems and strategies in primary science in
East Asia. Above all, it is a readable yet comprehensive
survey-readers would have an accurate sense of what has been
accomplished, what has not worked so well, and what remains to be
done. Invited experts in comparative education research and/or
science education also provide commentary by discussing common
themes across the six regions. These types of critical synoptic
reviews add much value by enabling readers to understand broad
commonalities and help synthesize what must surely be a bewildering
amount of very interesting albeit confusing body of facts, issues,
and policies. Education in East Asia holds many lessons (both
positive and negative) to offer to the rest of the world to which
this volume is a timely contribution to the literature.
This edited volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of primary
science education across six East-Asian regions; namely, the
People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Republic of China,
Hong Kong SAR, Japan, and Singapore. While news of educational
policies, classroom teaching, assessment, and other educational
innovations here often surface in the international media, this
book brings together for the first time relevant information
regarding educational systems and strategies in primary science in
East Asia. Above all, it is a readable yet comprehensive
survey-readers would have an accurate sense of what has been
accomplished, what has not worked so well, and what remains to be
done. Invited experts in comparative education research and/or
science education also provide commentary by discussing common
themes across the six regions. These types of critical synoptic
reviews add much value by enabling readers to understand broad
commonalities and help synthesize what must surely be a bewildering
amount of very interesting albeit confusing body of facts, issues,
and policies. Education in East Asia holds many lessons (both
positive and negative) to offer to the rest of the world to which
this volume is a timely contribution to the literature.
This book presents an improved design for service provisioning and
allocation models that are validated through running genome
sequence assembly tasks in a hybrid cloud environment. It proposes
approaches for addressing scheduling and performance issues in big
data analytics and showcases new algorithms for hybrid cloud
scheduling. Scientific sectors such as bioinformatics, astronomy,
high-energy physics, and Earth science are generating a tremendous
flow of data, commonly known as big data. In the context of growing
demand for big data analytics, cloud computing offers an ideal
platform for processing big data tasks due to its flexible
scalability and adaptability. However, there are numerous problems
associated with the current service provisioning and allocation
models, such as inefficient scheduling algorithms, overloaded
memory overheads, excessive node delays and improper error handling
of tasks, all of which need to be addressed to enhance the
performance of big data analytics.
This book presents a language integrated query framework for big
data. The continuous, rapid growth of data information to volumes
of up to terabytes (1,024 gigabytes) or petabytes (1,048,576
gigabytes) means that the need for a system to manage and query
information from large scale data sources is becoming more urgent.
Currently available frameworks and methodologies are limited in
terms of efficiency and querying compatibility between data sources
due to the differences in information storage structures. For this
research, the authors designed and programmed a framework based on
the fundamentals of language integrated query to query existing
data sources without the process of data restructuring. A web
portal for the framework was also built to enable users to query
protein data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and implement it on
Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing environment known for its
reliability, vast computing resources and cost-effectiveness.
Education in east Asia varies widely, due to the cultural and
political histories of each country. The communist governments of
China, North Korea, and Vietnam mandate schooling differently from
the limited democracy of Hong Kong and the parliamentary government
of Japan. The history of the educational philosophies, systems, and
curricula of seventeen East Asian countries are described here,
with a timeline highlighting educational developments, and a
special "day in the life" feature, a personal account of what it is
like for a student to attend school in that country. -Brunei
-Cambodia -China -Hong Kong -Indonesia -Japan -Laos -Malaysia
-Mongolia -North Korea -Philippines -Singapore -South Korea -Taiwan
-Thailand -Timor Leste -Vietnam -Philippines -Singapore -Taiwan
-Vietnam
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