Regional Power of Social Media in Recruiting Overestimated Only 4 percent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates by research firm i-Graduate. The poll of 150,000 international students suggested that the importance of communicating…
Regional Europe Expands Regional Mobility Program to Include Students from Middle East The European Commission announced in September that it will allocate 66 million euro (US$90 million) to extending its Erasmus Mundus higher education mobility and collaboration program to support European Neighbourhood countries, in response…
Kazakhstan Duke University to Partner with Nazarbayev University Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business announced recently that it will partner with the business school at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, with classes for the MBA program slated to begin in September. Under the agreement, the…
Ethiopia Addis Ababa University to Spearhead Faculty Training In a bid to address low tertiary enrollment rates (less than 2 percent), the Ethiopian government is developing plans to increase student numbers and, perhaps more importantly, qualified academic staff. Enrollment capacity is being increased by creating…
Regional Latin American Countries Send Their Students Overseas The Brazilian government announced this year that it plans to award 75,000 scholarships by 2014 to students wishing to study abroad. The program, Science Without Borders, is the grandest so far of a series of scholarship initiatives…