In a historic move to support the international education of America’s college students, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 1469, the Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act.
The legislation, introduced by Reps. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record) (D - Calif.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (news, bio, voting record) (R - Fla.), calls [...]
The Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act, a bill that would increase and diversify student participation in study abroad programs, is expected to reach the floor of the United States House of Representatives within the next few weeks.
The bill would appropriate $80 million for grants used to provide opportunities to students for study abroad [...]
As many as 7,000 Indonesian vocational school students who successfully passed English test will go to Unites States to learn more about cooperatives, an official said.
“We have given international-standard vocational school students across the country a chance of taking part in English test and found that 7,000 of them passed the test,” National Education Ministry`s [...]
Balochistan Government has awarded scholarship to 15 officials who will go for higher education in outstanding universities in America, UK and Canada, an official handout issued here Sunday said.
The selection of the officials has been finalized on merit who will go for higher education for a period of two years, besides they will also receive [...]
Drexel University became the first doctoral nursing program in the country to require a study abroad experience April 14.
Students will travel to London for two weeks with Dr. Heyward Michael Dreher, director of the program. While abroad, students will be taking courses such as Clinical and Applied Ethics in Nursing Practice and Legal Issues Confronting [...]
As the diversity of the world’s cultures continues to influence our generation, Baylor has recognized the advantages of expanding students’ horizons on an international level.
Imperative XI of Baylor 2012 stresses the importance of emphasizing global education.
One goal under this imperative is to increase participation in study abroad programs so 30 percent of each graduating class [...]
Rotary Club members of District 6600 are seeking four professionals to visit India in January 2008 as part of the Group Study program of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International.
Through the program, teams of young professionals from two different countries exchange all practices of another country, while sharing information about their homeland.
The purpose of the [...]
Summer school may not sound appealing at first, but what if it included traveling to a foreign country and learning about life in another culture? UTC makes that experience possible through a variety of study abroad opportunities.
Micah Gentry, a graduate student from Oliver, Ga., studied at the Sevilla Spanish School in Antigua, Guatemala for five [...]
The Finlandia University College of Arts and Sciences is accepting applications for an academic scholarship. The four-year (eight semesters) scholarship will be awarded this fall to a new incoming student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies or the liberal studies ACE! honors program in arts, culture and the environment.
The scholarship covers full tuition while [...]
The largest-ever study abroad scholarship donation could help drastically increase the number of graduates who studied abroad at the University of Kansas.
The donation could potentially raise the number of students who have studied abroad from one-in-four to one-in-two within the next five years.
Larry D. Horner and his wife, Donna Manning Horner, endowed half a million [...]