Chile A prolonged student strike at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences was partly responsible for the government’s recent decision to merge that school with the University of Chile, resulting in the resignation of Metropolitan’s rector. The Chilean education minister warned the students, who have…
Canada Ontario recently became the largest province to legalize private higher education moving Canada one step closer to establishing a competing system for the country’s public universities. The decision comes shortly after New Brunswick province set the wheels in motion to allow private universities to…
Brazil The Sandwich Undergraduate Program in Technology, Engineering and Agronomy is currently being implemented as part of a cooperative agreement on education between Brazil and the United States. The program is designed for third-year undergraduate Brazilian students in the fields of agriculture and engineering. Its…
Jamaica In an effort to attract more international students, the University of the West Indies (UWI) has signed agreements with several institutions of higher education in Colombia. The agreements seek to facilitate student and teacher exchanges, joint research, the transfer of credits and the reciprocal…
Canada According to a study released late in 1999, there are fewer international students in Canada today then there were at the beginning of the decade while only 3percent of all Canadians are studying abroad — most of them in the United States. The National…