On Monday, June 14, nine former Youth Ambassadors from around the country came to the U.S. Consulate for a pre-departure orientation and visa interviews in preparation ...
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On Monday, June 14, nine former Youth Ambassadors from around the country came to the U.S. Consulate for a pre-departure orientation and visa interviews in preparation for their participation in intensive English summer programs at prestigious institutions in the United States.
The students all received full scholarships for their participation through support from the Fulbright Education USA Office, local private sponsors, and partial tuition waivers from the institutions.
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Universities in the US can give British graduates better resources and more choice (see article for full ...
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Universities in the US can give British graduates better resources and more choice (see article for full details).
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Next week will be a banner time for EducationUSA. After years of being confined by a 10 x 10 booth in a sea of exhibitors at the annual NAFSA conference Expo Hall, ...
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Next week will be a banner time for EducationUSA. After years of being confined by a 10 x 10 booth in a sea of exhibitors at the annual NAFSA conference Expo Hall, EducationUSA will now have its own pavilion and room to breath.
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Accredited U.S. institutions may now apply to participate in three different U.S. Department of State-funded delegations to Cyprus/Turkey (up to 5 slots), Nigeria/South ...
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Accredited U.S. institutions may now apply to participate in three different U.S. Department of State-funded delegations to Cyprus/Turkey (up to 5 slots), Nigeria/South Africa (3 slots) or Ecuador/Peru (up to 5 slots) in September-October 2010. Participants will deliver information sessions and workshops for students, families and educators across the selected countries to explain the U.S. higher education admission process, academic programs and exchange initiatives. They will visit EducationUSA advising centers and local secondary schools and universities.
Applicants must be aware of the role of EducationUSA advising; representatives of campuses that have hosted an EducationUSA adviser are especially welcome.
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Several veterans of international education have started a new membership organization that will seek to help community colleges become more globally focused.
The ...
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Several veterans of international education have started a new membership organization that will seek to help community colleges become more globally focused.
The Center for Global Advancement of Community Colleges will work with two-year institutions to recruit more students from overseas and to build greater recognition of the American community-college system abroad.
Judith Irwin, the group's executive vice president for global and college alliances and a former director of international programs at the American Association of Community Colleges, said the membership organization would focus on helping institutions make use of limited resources to raise their profile abroad and to ensure that students graduate with skills needed to work in a global marketplace.
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Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such ...
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Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and YouTube, according to a new survey scheduled to be released today.
The data suggest that 80 percent of professors, with little variance by age, have at least one account with either Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Slideshare, or Google Wave. Nearly 60 percent kept accounts with more than one, and a quarter used at least four.
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The delegation and roundtable event are part of the Hong Kong SAR Education Bureau's initiative to strengthen ties with secondary and tertiary educational institutions ...
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The delegation and roundtable event are part of the Hong Kong SAR Education Bureau's initiative to strengthen ties with secondary and tertiary educational institutions in the United States. Hong Kong has recently introduced a New Academic Structure (NAS), which aims to prepare Hong Kong (HK) students better for the globalized world. The new structures include a broader and more balanced 3-year curriculum in new senior secondary (NSS) education, which has been in place since September 2009, a new public examination, the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Examination, and an expanded 4-year undergraduate program. More details about the new secondary school completion certificate will be available in the Resources section of our website later this month for US institutions who have requested login access to our site.
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As the numbers of Turkish students interested in a European or North American education continue to rise, a correspondingly high number of commercial recruitment agents ...
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As the numbers of Turkish students interested in a European or North American education continue to rise, a correspondingly high number of commercial recruitment agents have emerged to meet their consulting needs. Parents of college-bound students are paying extravagant fees, upwards of $750-$2,000 per hour, for what agencies claim to be top-notch, one-stop consulting services, “guaranteed” to land their students a spot in one of the best universities in the United States. But college-bound students and parents beware! Unfortunately, many of these commercial recruitment agencies do not act in the best interest of the student, but rather are out to make a quick buck.
Problems arise when advising students on such an important decision as which university to choose becomes a business. Many companies claiming to provide the best educational consulting services to students, in fact, only recruit for a handful of strategically chosen universities. “These agents … do not represent U.S. universities equitably,” Regional Educational Advising Coordinator for the U.S. State Department-supported EducationUSA network, Amy McGoldrick, said. “They will send a student to whichever university pays them a commission… restricting the options available to Turkish students.”
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EducationUSA abre nuevo centro de asesoria educativa en Mexico con la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga en Morelia, ...
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EducationUSA abre nuevo centro de asesoria educativa en Mexico con la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga en Morelia, Michoacan.
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EducationUSA abre nuevo centro de asesoria educativa en Mexico con la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga en Morelia, ...
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EducationUSA abre nuevo centro de asesoria educativa en Mexico con la Universidad Vasco de Quiroga en Morelia, Michoacan.
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I would like to congratulate the recipients of NAFSA’s prestigious annual awards and those honored with life membership. They will be recognized at the 2010 NAFSA ...
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I would like to congratulate the recipients of NAFSA’s prestigious annual awards and those honored with life membership. They will be recognized at the 2010 NAFSA Annual Conference and Expo in Kansas City during the Wednesday Plenary with Nicholas Kristof and on the Circle of Excellence at Kansas City Convention Center
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SEATTLE – Educators gathered here for this week's meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges are encouraging more two-year institutions to ...
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SEATTLE – Educators gathered here for this week's meeting of the American Association of Community Colleges are encouraging more two-year institutions to internationalize their curriculums and expand their reach around the world, arguing that there is no better time to make such changes than during a global economic downturn.
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“There is a paradigm shift as traditionally, we have been looking at Britain for higher education but I find there are now more and better choices in the United ...
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“There is a paradigm shift as traditionally, we have been looking at Britain for higher education but I find there are now more and better choices in the United States,” he told a forum on US-Malaysia Relations: Looking Ahead at Key Pillars of Cooperation at the Centre for Strategic International Studies here on Wednesday.
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Most cooperate with EducationUSA. Students are still best served by knowing all the possibilities rather than being sold on a school.
Applications from outside the United States are up 7 percent in 2010 at American graduate schools, a healthy increase that will please many universities, according to a ...
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Applications from outside the United States are up 7 percent in 2010 at American graduate schools, a healthy increase that will please many universities, according to a new survey released by the Council of Graduate Schools.
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