Regional EU May Offer Citizenship to Attract Top Talent International doctoral students in Europe may be offered citizenship upon completion of their degree programs in an effort by the European Union (EU) to attract the world’s best brains. The idea was first circulated at the…
Regional Report Reveals Scope of ‘Brain Drain’ A staggering percentage of college-educated workers from poor countries across Africa, Central America and the Caribbean are living in wealthy, industrialized nations, according to a World Bank study released at the end of October. The findings are based…
Belarus State Ideology Textbooks Distributed to Schools First-grade students were given state-ideology textbooks titled ”My Motherland Belarus” in September as a present from the president, according to Education Minister Alyaksandr Radzkou. Radzkou described the textbook as “an easy-to-read, quality product” created at President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s…
Australia Australian Universities Plan India Test Australia’s largest online learning platform, Open Universities Australia (OUA), is getting ready to make its offerings available overseas for the first time, with plans for a trial to run in India in 2006. OUA’s internationalization plans come on top…
Bahrain New University for Women Opens A new university for women has opened in Bahrain. Classes at Bahrain’s Royal University for Women (RUW) began Oct. 15. The programs that RUW is offering include: foundation in art design, bachelor of education, bachelor of commerce and bachelor…