Regional Big Increase in Number of Chinese Scholarships By the end of 2013, there were more than 35,000 African students in China and most of them were beneficiaries of Chinese government scholarships. Overall Chinese government scholarships increased from about 10,000 in 2007 to about 33,000…
Regional Chilean University Unseats Brazilian Incumbent at the Top of Regional Rankings Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), has overtaken Brazil’s Universidade de São Paulo to top this year’s QS University Rankings: Latin America. São Paulo drops to second after three years at the top. In this,…
Regional UNESCO Report Advises More R&D Output A report by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) has found that global higher education enrollments increased from 32.6 million in 1970 to 182.2 million in 2011, with 46 percent of that growth occurring in East and Southeast…
Regional Study: 183 Publically Funded International Scholarship Programs There are some 183 nationally funded scholarship programs for outbound academic mobility around the globe, with just over half of the world’s countries – 102 in all – offering at least one. Yet measuring the impacts and…
Regional Regional Harmonization Project Launched in Middle East, North Africa A three-year higher education project to align subject-learning objectives in the Middle East and North Africa (MEDA) was launched in May in the fields of law and good governance including human rights, healthcare and nursing,…