Iran Six US University Presidents Visit Iran The presidents of six leading research universities in the United States toured Iran and met with top officials from Iranian universities in November as a delegation organized by the Association of American Universities. According to an AAU news…
Kazakhstan US Academic Held on Money Smuggling Charges Victor A. Skormin, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton, was held in detention at an airport and waited weeks for a court hearing on charges that he attempted to…
By Dr. Vijaya Khandavilli, former Country Coordinator for Advising Services, US Educational Foundation in India Introduction Indian university graduates looking to stand out in an increasingly competitive and globalized job market have turned to vocationally and professionally oriented add-on programs in recent years to give…
Regional US Donors Reaffirm Commitment to African Higher Education Seven large U.S. donors formed a partnership in 2000 to support universities, institutions and programs in nine countries across the African continent with a 10-year, $350 million commitment, and they announced recently that they will continue…
Canada Universities Drive Nation’s Research and Development In the developed world, no other nation’s universities does a larger share of overall research than in Canada, according to a report released in October by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada at its annual meeting…