Iran Study: Iran Has the World’s Fastest Growing Research Output Simon Marginson writes about the globalization of research science in Times Higher Education, highlighting trends underlined in a recent report from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators 2014. According to the report, expenditure has…
Iran U.S. Government Opens Door to Academic Exchanges With Iran The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in March issued a general license authorizing academic exchanges between the United States and Iran, and allowing Iranian students to participate in U.S.-based massive…
Regional International School Students Concentrated in the Middle East Almost a third of the world’s international school students attend schools in the Middle East, according to recent figures from the International Schools Consultancy (ISC) Group. The region is home to 1,213 of the world’s 7,016…
Regional MOOC Provider Blocks Students from Iran, Cuba, Syria and Sudan Federal regulations prohibit U.S. businesses from offering services to countries subject to economic sanctions – a list that includes Cuba, Iran, Syria and Sudan – but as recently as January, students in those countries…
Regional Persian Gulf Countries to Lead Increases in International School Enrollments New statistics from the International School Consultancy Group (ISC) show that the market is predicted to continue to see significant growth in 2014 with numbers reaching 7,200 international schools teaching over 3.7 million students…