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25 avril 2017

More college graduates are coming home, figures show

Chinese college students studying in the United States are finding it just as interesting these days to return home to the world's number two economy rather than staying a few years in the world's number one, with some 82.23% of students who studied abroad returning to China last year, up from 72.38% in 2012, writes Kenneth Rapoza for Forbes. More...

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25 avril 2017

Visa change could hit recruitment of foreign students

By Karin Fischer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Yet again a Trump administration executive order has the potential to roil American campuses and their recruitment of international students. More...

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21 avril 2017

Houston school allows students to make rules

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Houston school allows students to make rules
Tera Roberson, Click2Houston, 2017/03/17
I'm not sure whether this is an experiment that will spread (because its successes won't be measured in any traditional metric) but I'm still happy to see it taking place. More...

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18 avril 2017

NAFSA CEO calls for bridge building in ‘worst of times’

By Sara Custer. International educators must “build bridges across professional and political lines to keep the United States an open and welcoming society”, Esther Brimmer, executive director of NAFSA, urged in a keynote address to the Association of International Education Administrators conference this week. More...

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18 avril 2017

US educators reevaluate global education in Trump era

By Sara Custer. International educators in the US are taking another look at how they promote and prioritise a global education in an ever more nationalistic political environment. At the 35th annual Association of International Education Administrators conference in Washington DC this week, concerns were high as stakeholders reevaluated student mobility and international partnerships. More...

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18 avril 2017

Interest in US ELT expected to stagnate in Latin America, agents say

By Natalie Marsh. Latin American agents report they are beginning to see repercussions of the US’s change in politics, predicting interest among students to study in the country will stagnate with students seeking alternative English language destinations. More...

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18 avril 2017

Relying on women, not rewarding them

Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportionate service loads? A new study says yes and adds to a growing body of research suggesting the same, writes Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed. More...

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18 avril 2017

Where every tertiary student is a potential data point

By Sarah Brown, The Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s a little strange to hear students being referred to as "potential test subjects" by a college president. But when the college in question is online-only and enrols 80,000 students worldwide, it makes more sense: The possibilities for institutional researchers are just about endless. More...

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18 avril 2017

Trump’s denial triggers 500 marches for science globally

By Brendan O’Malley. The world’s first March for Science will be held on Saturday 22 April, led by a flagship event in Washington DC in the United States, and satellite events in 514 locations across the world. More...

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16 avril 2017

Bravo, New Brunswick

By Alex Usher. Readers may remember that about this time last year, I was giving the Government of New Brunswick a bit of stick for a botched student aid roll-out. Today I am pleased to give credit where it is due, and congratulate the folks in Fredericton for fixing the problem and developing a much better student aid system. More...

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