Thursday, March 24, 2005

US no longer hot for higher education

The Economic Times, India (3/22/05)
...bubble has finally burst on foreign student enrollments in the US...international students are foregoing the US...

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Sharing Quality Higher Education Across Borders:

"Higher education’s tradition of exchanging ideas and people across borders has long served to advance its contribution to society’s cultural, social and economic goals. In recent years, there has been an impressive expansion of cross-border higher education initiatives."

Friday, March 18, 2005

A Diminishing Competitive Edge

By Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed
Many a Congressional hearing is nominally about one thing but actually about another. Thursday's session on the U.S. government's tracking of foreign students for national security purposes did explore that topic, as advertised, but it became first and foremost a venue for bemoaning the United States's diminishing competitive edge in international higher education. At the sparsely attended hearing ... three federal officials painted a mostly positive picture of the government's efforts to monitor the presence of foreign students in the U.S. since the September 11 attacks.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

American Council on Education