Bhushan Patwardhan, Ph.D. Manipal Education, Bangalore, India [email protected] and Anitha Kurup, Ph.D. National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India [email protected] Summary India’s higher education sector is today, and has been for quite some time, at the proverbial crossroads where opportunities and challenges abound. Despite the…
By Sophia J. Lowe, Research and Policy Analyst, WES Canada Introduction Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley announced changes to the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (PGWP) on April 21, 2008 that are designed to help Canada compete more effectively in the recruitment and settlement of…
By Mariam Assefa, Executive Director, WES and Robert Sedgwick, WENR Editor 1999-2005 The first Bologna bachelor’s degrees were awarded in 2003, which means that European students have already begun using the new qualifications to gain entry to graduate-level programs in the United States. The Bologna…
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 Sue Le-Ba, Research and Policy Analyst, WES Canada Introduction According to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), there were 2.7 million international students worldwide in 2004 compared to 1.75 million just five years earlier – a 41% increase since 1999 (OECD, Education…