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ARE STUDENTS THE NEW ‘REVOLUTIONARY TOURISTS’?
February 8th, 2011 posted by Jasmine Jaume
Students on study abroad programmes in Egypt may have mostly fled the country amidst the ongoing political crisis, but there have been suggestions that perhaps this wasn’t entirely through their choice. There have been reports that many wanted to stay, but worried parents and education providers meant most were persuaded to leave at the first sign of unrest.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATES INCREASE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE
September 15th, 2010 posted by Paul McWilliams
Those countries that have a higher proportion of young people in higher education will have a global competitive advantage in future years according to the latest report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Education at a Glance 2010.
NEW STUDENT EXCHANGE SCHEME PROPOSED BY SPANISH-SPEAKING UNIVERSITIES
June 15th, 2010 posted by Paul McWilliams
Over 1,000 university presidents from twenty-four Ibero-American countries have released a declaration calling for the creation of exchange programmes similar to the European Erasmus scheme, after a two-day meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico.
AHELO PROJECT AIMS TO ASSESS GLOBAL LEARNING
February 2nd, 2010 posted by Ian Maull
The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) has been announced with the goal of determining whether it is possible to develop “reliable and useful comparisons of learning outcomes” across a range of cultures and languages.
HOW WILL SWINE FLU AFFECT EDUCATION?
April 29th, 2009 posted by Nikki Tarjanyi
NAFSA Association of International Educators this week launched an emergency resource page for international education professionals to track the impact of the Swine Flu outbreak on the education sector.
