Articles
CONTINENTAL COMPETITION
Looking to increase enrollments, European universities are challenging America's dominance in the foreign-student market.
Students listen to a pitch by a representative from the U. of Nottingham, in England, during a European higher-education fair in Kuala Lumpur. Universities in Europe are becoming more interested in, and more aggressive in pursuing, foreign students. (Photograph from Agence France-Presse)
World Notes
ONE SIZE FITS ALL? An international effort to develop comparable assessment standards of student learning at universities is provoking concern among some education groups.
PARTICULARLY IN THE SCIENCES: Other countries are overtaking the United States by turning out young college graduates at a faster rate, says a report.
HIS FATHER'S DREAM: A faculty couple at Drury University have spent $1.5-million of their own money to build schools in India.
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Articles of Note
Islamic Universities Spread Through Africa (7/6/2007)
A Pandora's Box in Singapore (6/22/2007)
Iraq's Universities Near Collapse (5/18/2007)
Facts & Figures
Data on students & scholars abroad
Holdings of university research libraries in U.S. and Canada
Foreign students' countries of origin (8/31/2007)
Institutions enrolling the most foreign students (8/31/2007)
Issues in Depth
Global Campus
The Chronicle's 2007-8 Almanac of Higher Education
For-Profit Higher Education
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