Brazil For-Profit Colleges Find Warm Welcome The New York Times reports that for-profit colleges are finding a warm welcome in Brazil as the government tries to meet the demand for affordable higher education. From 2002 to 2012, the number of students attending college in Brazil…
Regional ASEAN Nations Collaborate with Australia on Study Abroad Plan All 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed to participate in Australia’s New Colombo Plan, which encourages and helps finance Australian students to study at universities in Southeast Asia. Foreign…
Regional Report: Universities Should Use Transnational Education Strategically A recent report argues that Western universities should take a more strategic approach to using transnational, or cross-border, higher education as a way to hedge against anticipated declines in international students that may result from the continuing…
Oman Government Offers International Study Scholarships The Omani government is offering 1,746 places in the current academic year to students wishing to study abroad. In addition, the government is offering 9,785 places at private educational institutions throughout the sultanate. All students were invited to submit…
Yoko Kono While Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar are very different countries, they share recent histories of civil war that has led to the exodus of significant numbers of tertiary-level students. In Nepal, a 2007 peace deal ended 10 years of Maoist insurrection against the…