By Richard Morris. US students get jobs to help pay for college. It has me missing Britain – and wondering if this trend will come to the UK. Upon my arrival in the states from Britain, one of the first conversations I had with my roommate was about sleep. I stated that I tend to go to bed around midnight no matter what, even if I don't have classes the next day until the afternoon.
"You'll soon learn to live without sleep, being an American college student," my roommate said. I thought he was joking. My roommate often talks about how exhausted he is. He isn't alone. Each year, thousands of American college students report to health centres because of exhaustion, yet only recently have the true effects of poor sleep on young adults been documented. The health centre nurses at my US university look at you sympathetically, then prescribe sleeping pills. These, of course, don't actually solve the problem, they just make it worse. Read more...

Alors que le gouvernement canadien entend modifier et améliorer encore les modalités d'obtention des visas étudiants, le pays vient d'enregistrer un nouveau record au niveau des effectifs d'élèves étrangers. La barre des 100 000 vient en effet d'être dépassée, et ce chiffre devrait continuer d'augmenter… 
Contrairement à certains pays comme le Royaume-Uni, le Canada a fait le pari d'augmenter son "immigration" étudiante. Un pari gagnant puisque le pays a accueilli plus de 100 000 étudiants étrangers en 2012, constituant non seulement une augmentation de 60% par rapport à 2004, mais également un nouveau record! Suite de l'article...

The Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), a leading private university in Peru, will receive a $23.5 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to double its capacity and expand access to affordable education programs for low-income students.
IDB financing will allow USIL to double its capacity from approximately 12,000 to 25,000 students over the next ten years.
Moreover, the loan will help USIL establish a new student guarantee fund, support a new technical training institute, and increase its participation in Beca 18, a Peruvian government flagship scholarship program targeting economically disadvantaged youth.
It will also help expand and upgrade USIL’s infrastructure using green technology that permits the reduction of water and energy consumption.
The project, which is also being financed by Banco de Crédito del Peru and the Canadian Climate Change Fund, comes as years of sustained economic growth in Peru has fueled growth of an emerging middle class eager to improve its living standards through high-quality college education. Currently only three out of ten Peruvian high school students have access to higher education. Read more..