Computational Thinking Education in the Asian Pacific Region

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

Computational Thinking in Life Science Education

We join the increasing call to take computational education of life science students a step further, beyond teaching mere programming and employing existing software tools. We describe a new course, focusing on enriching the curriculum of life science students with abstract, algorithmic, and logical thinking, and exposing them to the computational "culture." The design, structure, and content o...

Determinants Of Financial Integration In The East Asia- Pacific Region

A Personal Dosimetry Intercomparison Study in Asian and Pacific Region

The IAEA/RCA (Regional Cooperative Agreement) project to strengthen and harmonize radiation protection infrastructures in Asian and Pacific region started in 1988. The number of the RCA member countries is 17 at present. In the early stages of the project, there was little information on the status of radiation protection and their technical abilities of radiation protection measurements in RCA...

Secondary Education Reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region

In recent years, most countries in the Asia-Pacific region have made substantial progress toward the goal of universalizing primary education. Accordingly, more and more countries are now paying greater attention to the reorientation and expansion of their secondary education system. However, secondary education is a weak link in the education chain in many countries, even though an increasing ...