Iran Medical School Faces Closure Iranian students and politicians are protesting a decision to shutter one of the country’s largest medical and educational centers. Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi announced on October 30 that Tehran’s Iranian University of Medical Sciences was to be dissolved. According to…
Kazakhstan Government Looking to Lure Home Expatriate Kazakh Scientists In a speech to the Senate in November, Kazakh Education and Science Minister Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov said that the Kazakh government plans to start repatriating Kazakh scientists and researchers who are working abroad. The minister said that…
Regional Paper: University Internationalization Plans Need to Focus More on Cooperation with the Developing World Universities in richer nations that could play crucial roles in the developing world have been too focused on self-interested internationalization agendas, a recent White Paper warns. Presented by the European…
Regional Wide Gap Exists Between Perceptions of Quality in Education and the Reality There is a widespread belief in Latin America that the region has some of the best public universities and scientific research centers in the world, according to a region-wide 2008 Gallup/Inter-American Development…
Regional Internationalization a Major Force of Change for Universities Around the World A report released in September by the International Association of Universities (IAU) suggests that colleges and universities are increasingly focusing on the international experience for students, despite an overall drop in funding for…