Brazil 9 New Universities Planned Brazil plans to establish nine new universities and expand dozens of other campuses as a way to improve access to higher education in poor, underserved regions of the country. Most of the new colleges will be former isolated colleges that…
By Nick Clark and Robert Sedgwick International Students: It’s a Buyer’s Market Globalization and the challenge of competing in today’s knowledge-based economy has, in recent years, sparked a race to recruit the world’s best brains. The United States has long been the number one destination…
Austria Top Court Overturns Austrian University Admissions Rules The admissions process for Austrian universities is in breach of European Union (EU) rules, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in July. Students who have gained a high school diploma in a member state other than…
By the Bologna Coordination Committee of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) Legislative Framework The implementation of the Bologna process at Swiss institutions should be seen in the wider context of the far-reaching reforms currently under way for the entire higher education sector…
Belarus Shuttered University Reopens in Lithuania European Humanities University (EHU), which was shut down by the Belarusian authorities in July 2004 (see September/October 2004 issue of WENR), soon will reopen in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. Already, EHU has approximately 600 students enrolled. It reportedly will…