Russia U.S., Russia Streamline Visa Fees, Process The visa fee for Russian students wishing to study in the United States has been reduced from $500 – an average month’s salary for some in Russia – to $65. Not only have visa fees been slashed both…
Regional UNESCO Council Tackles Digital Divide In 2000, only 0.4 percent of people living in sub-Saharan Africa were Internet users, compared to 54.3 percent of U.S. residents. Seeking ways to redress the imbalance, experts from 26 countries recently gathered in Paris for the first meeting…
Robert Sedgwick, Editor, WENR Land Area: 194,913 square miles Capital: Madrid Administrative Divisions: 17 autonomous communities: Andalusia, Aragón, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Valencia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and País Vasco (Basque Country). Official Languages:…
Regional Virtual library To Host World’s Oldest Texts Online A handful of historians are using the Internet to assemble a virtual library of thousands of clay tablets inscribed with the world’s oldest written language, cuneiform. Started in 1998, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative has recently…
Regional Three Universities Team Up for European MBA Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom, the University of Mannheim in Germany and ESSEC in France are set to launch the first master’s in business administration program tailored specifically for the European market in September. The…