Veronica Lasanowski, Research Officer, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Vietnam Re-confirms its Long-term Strategic Higher Education Ambitions Earlier this month, Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training sponsored the country’s first major education event of the year, the National Conference on Improving Higher Education Quality….
By Bie Dunrong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Asian region is now going through a period of rapid and far-reaching economic and social changes, driven particularly by the impact of accelerating globalization, increased economic modernization, and transition toward a knowledge-based society. Higher education…
By Lubna Shah Anwar, Educational Consultant at the US Embassy in Lahore, and Nick Clark, WENR Editor Over the past four years, Pakistan has increased its spending on higher education by more than 700 percent and the government appears determined to reverse years of underinvestment…
By Robert Sedgwick CLICK HERE TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Originally published in the January/February 2005 issue of WENR Pakistan currently suffers from large fiscal and trade deficits, the absence of a strong middle class and weak foreign investment. Economic growth…
By Line Verbik, Research Manager, Hobsons and Veronica Lasanowski, Research Officer, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Over the past 10-15 years international student mobility has become an increasingly important part of the global higher education landscape. The total number of mobile tertiary education students…