By Megha Roy, Research & Advisory Services, WES From 2008 to 2012, the number of Nigerian students studying overseas at the tertiary level grew 98 percent (UIS 2012), with 14 percent of the total overseas body attending a U.S. institution of higher education. Enrollments have…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews ACCESS ARCHIVED WEBINAR ON WAEC EXAMINATIONS Established in 1952, the West African Examinations Council, known commonly as WAEC, is a regional examination body headquartered in Accra, Ghana that conducts standardized school-level examinations in the five Anglophone…
Regional Internationally Mobile Students from the Region Increasingly Likely to Choose the U.S. Since 2000, the number of students from the Middle East and North Africa has more than tripled, according to data from the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors report. Much of the growth…
Brazil For-Profit Universities Fight Financial Aid Rule Changes Higher education companies in Brazil are lobbying the government to rescind new rules on financial aid that they fear will stop students enrolling in private programs. A federal decree that was quietly published during the Christmas period…
France French Universities Perform Well in New Internationalization Ranking French institutions have performed particularly well in the second annual internationalization rankings from user-driven global higher education U-Multirank rankings, while all of the 27 of 237 institutions analyzed and achieving top scores are in Europe. This is the first year U-Multirank…