By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews According to recently released figures from the OECD, the number of students enrolled outside their country of citizenship more than doubled in the period between 2000 and 2012, to a total of approximately 4.5 million. Of…
By Zhengrong Lu, Research & Advisory Services, WES The number of students from Kuwait in the United States has been increasing at a double-digit growth rate each year since 2007. According to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) latest Open Doors report, Kuwait became a…
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…
By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews The demand for an English-medium international school education has been growing at a steady clip over the last 20 years to the point that the sector brought in an estimated US$34.4 billion in 2013, up from…
Paul Schulmann, Research & Advisory Services, WES Vietnam’s higher education sector faces significant challenges. These are related to quality standards, a low post-graduation employment rate, and widespread corruption. Between 1999/2000 and 2012, the number of higher education institutions (HEIs) in Vietnam grew from 153 to 419;…