Regional Business Professors Head East The Financial Times reports that internationally mobile business professors are heading to Asia in increasing numbers, reversing a trend that has traditionally seen professors heading to the United States to teach. China and Singapore have become particularly attractive destinations for…
Regional Power of Social Media in Recruiting Overestimated Only 4 percent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates by research firm i-Graduate. The poll of 150,000 international students suggested that the importance of communicating…
Regional Europe Expands Regional Mobility Program to Include Students from Middle East The European Commission announced in September that it will allocate 66 million euro (US$90 million) to extending its Erasmus Mundus higher education mobility and collaboration program to support European Neighbourhood countries, in response…
Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews Indian students in the United States have historically had a strong preference for graduate-level study, with masters and doctoral students typically outnumbering their undergraduate peers by roughly five to one. In 2009/10, undergraduate students constituted just 14.5…
Kazakhstan Duke University to Partner with Nazarbayev University Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business announced recently that it will partner with the business school at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, with classes for the MBA program slated to begin in September. Under the agreement, the…