Regional Big Increase in Number of Chinese Scholarships By the end of 2013, there were more than 35,000 African students in China and most of them were beneficiaries of Chinese government scholarships. Overall Chinese government scholarships increased from about 10,000 in 2007 to about 33,000…
Yoko Kono While Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar are very different countries, they share recent histories of civil war that has led to the exodus of significant numbers of tertiary-level students. In Nepal, a 2007 peace deal ended 10 years of Maoist insurrection against the…
Nick Clark, Editor, WENR Worldwide, there are in excess of 9,000 schools teaching a curriculum different from that of the host nation; commonly referred to as international schools. According to data maintained by the International Schools Consultancy Group, 6,734 of these schools were teaching fully…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews The demand for an English-medium international school education has been growing at a steady clip over the last 20 years to the point that the sector brought in an estimated US$34.4 billion in 2013, up from…
Regional Chilean University Unseats Brazilian Incumbent at the Top of Regional Rankings Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), has overtaken Brazil’s Universidade de São Paulo to top this year’s QS University Rankings: Latin America. São Paulo drops to second after three years at the top. In this,…