Social media has been flooded recently with uplifting messages of support for international students from universities and colleges across the United States. The #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign, spearheaded by Temple University , was devised to address concerns of the international student community following anti-migrant themes in some of the US presidential election campaigns. Staff and students at 20 US schools have recorded
What projects is IIE involved with at the moment to support refugees? In 2012, IIE launched the Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis to provide Syrian students whose education was disrupted by crisis with an opportunity to begin or continue their studies in a safe environment and provide them with the skills needed to rebuild their country in the future. The Consortium has provided more than 150 scholarships to Syrians
International superstar Rihanna has launched a scholarship programme for foreign students seeking a higher education in the United States. To apply for the funding you'll need to be a resident of either Brazil, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana or Jamaica. Additionally you'll have already been accepted into an accredited US college or university for 2016/17. Successful students will have access to grants from
US universities hold eight of the top 10 positions in a list of institutions that have produced the most Nobel Prize Laureates since the year 2000, according to a recent analysis by Times Higher Education . Stanford University is number one, producing an impressive seven Nobel Laureates this century and Harvard University comes just outside the top 10. The remaining two institutions to make up the world’s top ten are Israel’s Technion and
America’s cornerstone college admissions test the SAT will undergo a series of changes to better measure students’ ‘real-world’ college and career capabilities. The changes seek to better measure how students are likely to perform in realistic college and employment situations, with a vocabulary shift towards words more commonly used in real-world contexts. Students will be required to more heavily draw on evidence to support their
The FBI has issued a warning to US students looking to study abroad to watch out for foreign intelligence and espionage recruitment schemes. The warning, accompanied by a 30 minute video ‘Game of Pawns’ comes in response to the case of Glenn Duffie Shriver, a former US student studying in China found guilty of attempting to provide US defence information to the PRC government after being recruited by Chinese intelligence agents. The video
Image Source: NY Daily News Online US First Lady Michelle Obama has stressed the importance of global education by encouraging more students to study abroad. In a speech delivered at Peking University’s Stanford Centre on Saturday, Mrs. Obama described the study abroad experience as key means of strengthening global ties and promoting cultural tolerance. ‘By learning each other’s languages and by showing such
Syracuse University has momentarily ditched its bright, iconic orange for fresh, powder white. A list published by The Weather Channel last Wednesday has officially named Syracuse as the ‘snowiest college in America’. Whilst the college has recently lost the top spot on the US college basketball ranking to Florida, it definitely pulls rank when it comes to snow. The central New York campus was reported to see an average of more than 126
