Brazil 18 U.S. Colleges and Universities Selected for Brazil Partnership Program The Institute of International Education announced recently the 18 U.S. colleges and universities selected for the 2012 Brazil initiative of IIE’s International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP). Over the next year, IIE will lead a…
Regional Joint Degrees Gain Traction as a Means of Internationalizing the Campus According to a report from the Institute of International Education, joint- and dual-degree programs are an increasingly popular way for universities to increase the internationalization of their campuses and raise their global profile….
Regional Latin American Countries Send Their Students Overseas The Brazilian government announced this year that it plans to award 75,000 scholarships by 2014 to students wishing to study abroad. The program, Science Without Borders, is the grandest so far of a series of scholarship initiatives…
Brazil British Universities Look to Brazil for Students The British government and its universities are looking to recruit thousands of fee-paying students from Brazil. British universities minister, David Willetts, and more than a dozen university vice chancellors met with Brazilian officials in June to discuss…
Regional European Universities and Latin American Universities to Cooperate Under New Program A consortium of 24 national and international university associations launched a project to boost regional and cross-continental cooperation in higher education in May. The three-year $3.5 million project, Alfa Puentes, is funded by…