Regional Euro Parliament Gives Nod to Continental Institute of Technology The European Parliament has given its official support to the creation of the European Institute of Technology (EIT), while criticism of an unrealistic budget and fears that the institute could become “yet another EU agency”,…
Iran University Extends Invitation to Bush An Iranian university invited US President George W. Bush to talk on campus, a week after his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was given a frosty reception at New York’s Columbia University. The head of Ferdowsi University in Iran’s second…
By Sue Le-Ba, Research and Policy Analyst, WES Canada Introduction According to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), there were 2.7 million international students worldwide in 2004 compared to 1.75 million just five years earlier – a 41% increase since 1999 (OECD, Education…
By Line Verbik, Research Manager, Hobsons and Veronica Lasanowski, Research Officer, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Over the past 10-15 years international student mobility has become an increasingly important part of the global higher education landscape. The total number of mobile tertiary education students…
Kazakhstan Results of Higher Education Quality Audit Announced The Kazakh Ministry of Education and Science has completed a quality audit of the nation’s institutions of higher education in collaboration with representatives of the National Security Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office, according to a June…