Last year, nearly 600 University of Tennessee students earned credit studying in at least 40 nations scattered from Sweden to Saint Kitts and Nevis to India.
Toss in the ports of call for those students studying at sea, and the total number of nations probably climbs even higher.
“In addition to that, people went overseas [...]
While Yale promotes international experience as a key part of undergraduate education, students continue to identify bureaucratic challenges to term-time study abroad.
Students preparing to go abroad next fall — who had to confirm their plans with University study abroad administrators last Friday — cited difficulties in securing the transfer of academic credit and finding housing [...]
Springfield businessman Joe Jenkins has traveled the world. Now, he wants to give students a chance to do the same.
Jenkins, owner of Jenkins Diesel Power, has committed to a $25,000 gift to Missouri State University, to be used to establish the Grace Gardner Endowed Scholarship for Study Away.
An anonymous donor has pledged another $25,000 to [...]
China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCBB:CEDA - News; “CEDA”), one of the leading e-learning enterprises engaged in the online education business in China, today announced they have hired professor Liansheng Zhang as a consultant to Harbin Zhonghelida Education & Technology Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of China Education Alliance, Inc., and Hongmei Wang as principal [...]
Illinois-based veterans and active-duty service members may qualify for scholarships valued at $74,000 that allow them to earn a masters degree in business from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Up to 110 new academic scholarships will be awarded to veterans or active-duty personnel whose legal residence is Illinois.
The program is funded by the Illinois Student [...]
China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCBB:CEDA - News), one of the leading e-learning enterprises engaged in the online education business in China, today announced that they have released the first online intelligence game in China, called “Wealth Island Trip.” The interactive game is designed to teach children from ages six to eighteen.
Game designers conducted their open [...]
City officials hold hopes the opening of a higher education campus in Peoria will jump-start more academic growth.
Western International University in January opened its fifth campus in the state aimed at working adults at 83rd Avenue and Thunderbird Boulevard.
The City Council, which hopes to bring in high-paying, white-collar jobs, has identified post-secondary education as a [...]
As some students labor to increase awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with such events as AIDS Walk New Haven, and as scientists at the Yale School of Medicine study treatments for the disease, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Nursing studying how to prevent the spread of HIV are [...]
Australia is becoming a popular place for local Shanghai students to continue their studies, a trend that was obvious at the 11th China International Education Expo Tour, which was held in Shanghai over the weekend.
Nearly 40,000 students and parents crowded the annual international education tour organized by the Ministry of Education.
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China plans to increase education spending to four percent of
GDP, from 2.79 percent, emphasizing that a well-educated population was “strategically important” to modernization.
The government also plans to complete the task of providing free nine-year compulsory education to all students in China in five years, Education Minister Zhou Ji told a news conference.
“Frankly speaking, the percentage [...]