Canada EU & Canada Launch 11 Cooperation Projects The European Commission and Canadian authorities launched 11 three-year cooperation projects in October under a new eight-year EU-Canada agreement in higher education, vocational training and youth. The programs are designed as a means of developing joint study…
Regional International Stakeholders in Higher Education Pen Global Principles for Graduate Education Leaders from higher education institutions and organizations around the world who participated in what they termed as the first global meeting on graduate education have produced a statement outlining nine guiding principles for…
Regional United States to Latin America: “Send Us Your Students” U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, and seven university leaders traveled to Chile and Brazil this month, meeting with reporters and education officials. Seemingly, another key element of the trip was to assure the continent’s…
Regional Caribbean: Ambitious Growth Plans Launched for Regional University Within five years, the University of the West Indies plans to boost enrollments, overhaul programs to deliver ‘work-ready graduates,’ inaugurate a new campus in western Jamaica, and launch an online platform, or ‘open campus,’ that would…
Regional Science Degree Spans the Globe Despite being thousand of miles apart, students in Ireland, the US and Australia will tackle the world’s most pressing problems together and in the same classroom. Students at the universities of Dublin City, Colorado and Wollongong are the first…