Kazakhstan US Academic Held on Money Smuggling Charges Victor A. Skormin, a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton, was held in detention at an airport and waited weeks for a court hearing on charges that he attempted to…
Regional US Donors Reaffirm Commitment to African Higher Education Seven large U.S. donors formed a partnership in 2000 to support universities, institutions and programs in nine countries across the African continent with a 10-year, $350 million commitment, and they announced recently that they will continue…
Canada Universities Drive Nation’s Research and Development In the developed world, no other nation’s universities does a larger share of overall research than in Canada, according to a report released in October by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada at its annual meeting…
Australia Vocational Sector Sees Big Growth in International Enrollments Australia’s international education market has been buoyed by recent data showing that vocational education and training programs enjoyed growth of 44 percent over the previous year, according to July 2008 statistics released by the government in…
Editorial Note: Web links have been removed from this page due to outdated third-party web content. Regional Erasmus Mundus Budget Quadruples The European Parliament in October agreed to boost four-fold the budget for one of the European Union’s flagship academic mobility programs, which aims to attract…