Feb 8th, 2010
Only 5% Chinese students pick Taiwan: poll
One in five Taiwanese students picked China as the number one choice for studying-abroad, yet only five in every 100 Chinese students chose Taiwan as the top destination, according to a recent survey. The Reader’s Digest revealed its 2009 survey on the top ten study-abroad countries for cross-strait students — 5 percent of the Chinese [...]
May 7th, 2009
Higher Education on the Move
An estimated 2.9 million students worldwide are pursuing their educations outside their home countries, a 57 percent increase since 1999. At a round table discussion at the Institute of International’s Education’s Washington offices Tuesday, coinciding with the release of the institute’s new book, Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility, participants discussed [...]
Apr 28th, 2009
GLOBAL: End of the education gold rush?
Up until the onset of the world financial crisis, selling higher education to foreign students had become the new global gold rush for universities across the developed countries. Whereas 600,000 students went abroad to study for their degrees in 1975, by 2000 the number had hit 1.8 million, five years later it reached 2.7 million. [...]
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