Israel Tel Aviv U Signs Cooperation Agreement with China’s Tsinghua U As a first step towards establishing a joint research center, Tel Aviv University has signed a memorandum of understanding with Beijing’s Tsinghua University reports the Jerusalem Post. The new research center is to serve…
Israel Israeli Higher Education Deteriorates and Brain Drain Worsens, Report Says A report published by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel says that nationwide spending on higher education has plunged over the last 40 years and universities are increasingly replacing senior faculty…
Regional Middle East and Asia Prove Popular as Transnational Education Locations A new report from the British Council ranks countries according to how favorable their climates are for transnational higher education and evaluates the impact of cross-border education on host countries. Overall, the report finds that transnational education…
Iran 14,000 International Students in Iranian Universities According to Iran’s minister of science, research, and technology, Kamran Daneshjoo, there are 14,000 international students currently studying at Iran’s universities, and efforts are underway to attract as many as 25,000 by 2015. “The improvement of the quality…
Regional Combating Brain Drain in Arab Countries An extraordinary 80 percent of Arab postgraduate students currently carry out their study abroad. Just over half of them – especially from the North Africa region – do not return home after graduating, which results in annual losses…