Goal to Increase Participation to 1 Million Students Studying Abroad Per Year
America’s public universities applaud yesterday’s introduction of legislation to establish a national study abroad fellowship program. The Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Act of 2006 (S. 3744) would create a national fellowship program, increasing the numbers of students studying abroad to 1 million per year [...]

Oklahoma City University School of Law launched a study-abroad program this month with one of China’s most prestigious law schools. An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, culminated one year of negotiations for a “Summer Institute for International Law,” which focuses on international and comparative law.
Four OCU law students [...]

Indonesia may become one of the preferred destinations for Malaysian students to pursue higher education abroad, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
He said Malaysian students, who could not get places in the local institutions of higher learning, could opt to study in the republic.
Indonesia could become a good choice not only for medicine [...]

Continuing a decades-old tradition at Colgate, six more graduates have been awarded grants to study or teach abroad during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Five alumni were tapped for French Government Teaching Assistantships in English, which are administered by the country’s Ministry of Education, while the sixth received a Fulbright award to study in Egypt.
The French Government [...]

Turkish Minister of Education Huseyin Celik said the Turkish government will send 1,000 students abroad in 2006 for Master’s and Ph.D programs.
Celik, at his press conference held in Van, declared that the government would send students abroad this year as required by the Law for Students to Be Sent Abroad for Education No: 1416.
The [...]

Oklahoma City University School of Law launched a study-abroad program this month with one of China’s most prestigious law schools.
An agreement between OCU and Nankai University School of Law in Tianjin, China, culminated one year of negotiations for a “Summer Institute for International Law,” which focuses on international and comparative law.
Four OCU law students are [...]

Recognizing the importance of a global education in today’s world, Baylor has made significant progress in strengthening the university’s efforts in international education. Keeping in line with Imperative XI of Baylor 2012, the university’s 10-year vision, Baylor will send 400 students overseas this summer in study abroad programs to 20 countries.
As part of Baylor 2012 [...]

Michigan State University officials decided Sunday to bring students studying abroad in Israel back early.
Eight students and one faculty member will return Thursday, one week ahead of schedule, because of the escalating violence in the Middle East. One student has already returned.
This was the first trip to Israel sponsored by MSU since it suspended study [...]

The intervention initiative to attract brilliant secondary school students to pursue teaching a career in the nation’s primary education system got a boost when 83 primary education studies (PES) students of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) receiv-ed an GO’s scholarship award for the three-year NCE programme.
The five-year intervention programme is floated by the [...]

Sierra College is accepting applications for the Intercession 2006-07 study abroad program in Peru with award-winning photography instructor, Rebecca Gregg.
Gregg has led several educational programs abroad to China, Russia, Italy, Austria, and Peru for the Intercession 2005-06.
This trip’s duration is from Dec. 27, 2006, to Jan. 12, 2007. The group will depart from San Francisco [...]

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The Center awards approximately 20-25 academic year residential fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural [...]

Darton College is a two-year college of the University System of Georgia offering Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, and Associate of Applied Science degrees, and one-year certificate programs.
The Darton College International Student Fellowship Program waives the out-of-state cost of tuition for eligible students. This will be a savings of approximately $7,200 per year. The [...]