By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews In 1974, in its first year of operations, a fledgling World Education Services (WES) completed credential evaluations for 20 foreign-educated individuals. Fast forward 40 years to 2014 and the now-largest foreign credential evaluation organization in North…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews CLICK TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA In the January 2012 issue of WENR we offered a guide to obtaining and evaluating authentic secondary credentials from Saudi Arabia, focusing specifically on the…
Zhengrong Lu, Research & Advisory Services, WES The World Bank projects that regional GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa will grow more than 5% annually between 2014 and 2016, ensuring that it remains among the fastest growing regions in the world. While students from Sub-Saharan Africa in…
Bahrain International Scholarship Program Celebrates 15th Year Bahrain’s Crown Prince International Scholarship Program celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. The program has sent 146 students overseas to date, funding all costs incurred during study abroad and paying out up to US$500,000 per student. Founded in 1999 by…
Regional Google Releases Data on Most-Googled Institutions of Higher Education Google has revealed the most popular searches for people around the world looking for universities, and the ranking is significantly different from the traditional map of the global powerhouses of higher education. There is a…