Brazil Angola – Brazil Expand Relations on Higher Education The Brazilian embassy in Angola recently announced that scholarships for local students to study in Brazilian universities for the 2008 academic year are now available. The Students’ Program-Graduation Pact provides scholarships worth US$4,000 to Angolan students…
Argentina Expatriate Researchers Offered Enticements to Return Officials in Argentina have decided to broaden policies directed at encouraging overseas Argentine researchers to return home and to allow the country to take advantage of the expertise of those who remain abroad. Most scholars abroad are resident…
Canada Private Colleges in Ontario Seek to Salvage Battered Image with the Chinese A new Ontario law aims to repair the damage caused to the reputation of the province’s colleges after a warning on a Chinese government website about unscrupulous operators and substandard programs at…
Regional Spanish Language Distance Learning, an Established and Growing Model The Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER) is a Barcelona-based international alliance of approximately 50 universities that has been offering tertiary distance-education programs in Spanish for over a decade. The alliance is made up of universities from…
Regional Mercosur Countries Consider the Formation of a Regional University The South American regional organization Mercosur — a customs union between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru — is considering a proposal to form a regional university that would consist…