By Carlos Monroy, Area Specialist, WES, and Nick Clark, Editor, WENR CLICK TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN BRAZILIntroduction In academic year 2010/11 there were 8,777 Brazilian students at U.S. colleges and universities. While this was a very slight decrease from the prior…
Regional Even More Branch Campuses The Observatory on International Education, a U.K.-based research organization, released an addendum to its annual report from January, ‘International Branch Campuses: Data and Developments,’ adding to a list of 37 planned campuses that it had identified. Most of these campuses…
Algeria Reforms Aim at Raising University Standards The Algerian government is planning on spending US$1.48 billion on higher education and science over the next five years and to double research spending to 1 percent of gross domestic product as it seeks to raise university standards….
Brazil U.S. For-Profit Acquires Fourth Brazil Campus DeVry Inc., a global provider of educational services, announced in February that it had entered into a binding agreement to acquire Faculdade Boa Viagem (FBV), a three-campus private institution in the northeastern city of Recife. The acquisition is…
Regional Asian Investment in Science & Technology Continues to Outpace Rest of World The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology (S&T), but only by a small margin versus the 10 biggest spenders in Asia, according to indicators recently released in…