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Only 6.3 pct of Japanese universities use the results of third-party English proficiency tests, such as TOEFL, as part of their regular entrance examinations, an education ministry survey showed.The ministry has been urging universities to measure applicants' English skills in the four categories of reading, writing, speaking and listening through entrance exams, including by using third-party tests such as TOEFL, or the Test of English as a Foreign Language, and Eiken, or the Test in Practical English Proficiency.

The number of students from Asian countries and regions studying Western confectionery making in Japan is rapidly increasing. It is likely that foreign students are attracted by Japan's advanced confectionery production techniques, which are not inferior to the original Western techniques, and the Japanese style of detailed and careful teaching.At the Patissier Department of Tokyo Belle epoque College of Confectionery and Culinary in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, 12 out of 40 students are foreign. In this two-year course that focuses on practical training, students learn about 270 kinds of confectionery recipes and bread-making techniques in a year.

The number of Taiwanese people with a college, university or other type of higher education degree has increased to five million in 2015, reports The China Post.According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior on 12 March, as of the end of 2015, 42.68% of Taiwanese people are college or university degree holders, while 30.92% are high school or vocational high school graduates.The percentage means some 5.06 million Taiwanese people have a college, university or other type of higher education degree, meaning a quarter of the country's population has received higher education.

China has been building the equivalent of almost one university per week – part of a silent revolution that is causing a huge shift in the composition of the world's population of graduates, writes Andreas Schleicher for BBC News.In terms of producing graduates, China has overtaken the United States and the combined university systems of European Union countries, and the gap is going to become even wider. Even modest predictions see the number of 25 to 34 year-old graduates in China rising by a further 300% by 2030, compared with an increase of around 30% expected in Europe and the United States.