The Yekaterinburg EducationUSA Advising Center partnered with the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg to produce a new promotional video advertising the ...
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The Yekaterinburg EducationUSA Advising Center partnered with the U.S. Consulate General in Yekaterinburg to produce a new promotional video advertising the center’s services. The video, which talks about the benefits of higher education in the United States and about how EducationUSA can help, is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlg1xz41ri&feature=player_embedded
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EducationUSA Ambassadors support outreach in Russia
As part of an innovative new approach to advising, this month EducationUSA in Russia launched a program of sustained outreach. Interns located in different cities ...
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As part of an innovative new approach to advising, this month EducationUSA in Russia launched a program of sustained outreach. Interns located in different cities throughout the country will take groups of students through a program of lectures that will help them to prepare successful applications to U.S. universities. Many of the EducationUSA Ambassadors are alumni of U.S. Government exchange program and/or U.S. colleges and universities.
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Where there’s volatility, says Susan Gillespie, there’s also opportunity.
Gillespie is vice president of special global initiatives and director of the Institute ...
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Where there’s volatility, says Susan Gillespie, there’s also opportunity.
Gillespie is vice president of special global initiatives and director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Whereas other U.S. universities have established overseas branch campuses bankrolled by oil-rich nations -- initiatives inspired in part by promises of profit -- Bard has gone to places where resources are scarce but problems are plentiful. Bard’s signature international initiative has been to establish dual degree programs in countries that are post-Communist, post-conflict or -- as in the case of its partnership with Al-Quds University, a Palestinian institution in East Jerusalem -- at the crossroads of continuing conflict.
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Facebook has powered past Orkut to become the number-one social networking site in India, according to comScore. The Palo-Alto based company recorded 20.87 million unique ...
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Facebook has powered past Orkut to become the number-one social networking site in India, according to comScore. The Palo-Alto based company recorded 20.87 million unique visitors in July 2010, a massive leap from 7.47 million in July 2009.
Orkut was close behind with 19.87 million unique visitors last month but growth has stalled - this is only a modest increase from the 17.07 million recorded last year. Twitter also saw strong growth off a lower base, rising from 987,000 unique visitors in July 2009 to 3.34 million a year later.
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On August 24, Ms. Doreen John, Education USA Coordinator at the Malaysian American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE), engaged 16 students and 4 school counselors ...
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On August 24, Ms. Doreen John, Education USA Coordinator at the Malaysian American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE), engaged 16 students and 4 school counselors at Catholic High School in Petaling Jaya, on the many reasons why Malaysian students should seriously consider the U.S.A. when planning their path to higher education.
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Governments and philanthropists behind the programs don’t just do it for charity or stealing the best brains, as some may think. “In any single exchange, we expect it ...
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Governments and philanthropists behind the programs don’t just do it for charity or stealing the best brains, as some may think. “In any single exchange, we expect it to be a two-way street of learning,” said James Wolfe, press attache at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv. Shortly after World War II, when Senator J. William Fulbright began the American flagship academic exchange, the Fulbright program, “he stated that it might actually be a way to prevent a nuclear war,” said Wolfe.
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Admissions offers by American graduate schools to international applicants increased by 3 percent from 2009 to 2010, reversing a 1 percent decline the previous year, ...
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Admissions offers by American graduate schools to international applicants increased by 3 percent from 2009 to 2010, reversing a 1 percent decline the previous year, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools. Offers to Americans, meanwhile, fell by 1 percent in the last year, although that figure may not be final.
The figures are from the latest surveys conducted by the council, which closely tracks trends in the fluid and increasingly competitive world of attracting top graduate students.
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The two longtime leaders in the field, the Toefl and the International English Language Testing System, better known by its acronym, Ielts, have each sought to broaden ...
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The two longtime leaders in the field, the Toefl and the International English Language Testing System, better known by its acronym, Ielts, have each sought to broaden their reach in countries where the other has been dominant, and to enter new markets. They continually revise and improve their tests, and highlight their differences in their sales pitches to students and colleges.
There is also a new entrant in the market. Last year Pearson, the media conglomerate that publishes the Financial Times, joined the field, billing its new Pearson Test of English, or PTE Academic exam, as a response to a need for a test "that will more accurately measure the communication skills of international students in an academic environment."
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Ms. Fathi is part of a wave of Iranians studying in the United States in numbers not seen in more than a decade. Since 1979, when tens of thousands of Iranians studied in ...
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Ms. Fathi is part of a wave of Iranians studying in the United States in numbers not seen in more than a decade. Since 1979, when tens of thousands of Iranians studied in the United States, the number of Iranian students in the United States has taken an almost uninterrupted nosedive, bottoming out at fewer than 1,700 students in 1999. Since then, the number of students has begun a slow but steady rise, with more Iranians in the country now than at any other point since 1994, says the Institute of International Education in New York.
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EducationUSA, the official US government source of information on study in the United States, started operations in Ho Chi Minh City in early August.
The EducationUSA ...
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EducationUSA, the official US government source of information on study in the United States, started operations in Ho Chi Minh City in early August.
The EducationUSA office is on the 8th floor of Diamond Plaza, 34 Le Duan Street, District 1, at the Public Affairs Section of the US Consulate General in the city.
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The EducationUSA Advising Center and U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica hosted their annual Pre-departure Orientation for Jamaican students going to study in the U.S. on ...
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The EducationUSA Advising Center and U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica hosted their annual Pre-departure Orientation for Jamaican students going to study in the U.S. on June 21, 2010. Coverage of the event was published in a leading Jamaican newspaper, the Jamaica Observer.
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“As you go the U.S., let the institution and students know that you are a good Nigerian. Let them know that Nigerians are brilliant…Nigerians show resilience and ...
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“As you go the U.S., let the institution and students know that you are a good Nigerian. Let them know that Nigerians are brilliant…Nigerians show resilience and often times, excel in difficult situations,” said Antonia Anamege, a post graduate returnee student from Radford University, Virginia.
Ms Anamege, a former EducationUSA student member and the only “black” student in her class of 20 students in the U.S., spoke as a guest to more than 80 departing Nigerian students who are proceeding to the United States in pursuit of their academic studies. The event was the pre-departure program organized by the U.S. Mission EducationUSA center in Abuja.
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HARARE- The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray said his country would continue to provide resources to assist in the revival of the country’s education ...
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HARARE- The United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray said his country would continue to provide resources to assist in the revival of the country’s education sector.
Ray said last Friday that his government would continue to assist the education sector that had collapsed due to political instability.
He was speaking at the occasion to give scholarships worth US$4.5 million to 20 Zimbabweans who will be going to study in different universities in America.
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The Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake says it is important to liaise with major universities overseas to set up private universities in Sri Lanka to retain ...
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The Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake says it is important to liaise with major universities overseas to set up private universities in Sri Lanka to retain those students and curb the foreign exchange outflow, the Minister points out.
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At our inaugural EducationUSA Forum over 200 U.S. College & University representatives gathered with 14 REACs and 15 advisers to discuss how we can collaborate on our ...
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At our inaugural EducationUSA Forum over 200 U.S. College & University representatives gathered with 14 REACs and 15 advisers to discuss how we can collaborate on our shared goals of bringing international students to the U.S. Several high ranking State Department officials including Ambassador Hormats.
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