Iran Collapse of Rial Renders A Foreign Education Unaffordable Iranian students looking to study abroad, or already doing so, are watching helplessly as Western sanctions and the abolition of a government policy that helped students meet their costs, have made a foreign degree so expensive…
Regional African Students See China as a Path to a Prosperous Future A growing number of African students are pursuing degrees in China, a country trying to establish itself as a major destination for international students. Currently there are some 293,000 international students in China,…
Regional OECD: Global International Mobility Continues to Grow The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released its annual Education at a Glance report in September, and data on international mobility trends reveal that the number of students traveling internationally for educational purposes continues to grow…
Regional International Brain Circulation Positive for Research At the recent 2012 Global University Summit held in Chicago this spring, Nick Fowler, managing director of A&G Institutions at Elsevier, presented the preliminary findings of “Global Brain Migration,” a report that tracks the movement of scientific talent…
Regional Universities Internationalize Through Consortia The consortia model of internationalization allows universities to combine their strengths in setting up new centers of learning abroad, reports International Focus, drawing on a number of examples to highlight the model. In Shanghai, students at the Sino-British College (SBC),…