Links of Interest for the Week of Sept. 26th to Oct. 2nd
The following are links of interest that I pulled from my Twitter posts and retweeted Twitter posts. I hope you find them of interest:
The ICC Network highlights IHEC Blog & IEB&N Blog on their network page
Sizing up the competition: the future of international postsecondary student enrollment in the US (via @IDPDRIE)
The following are links of interest that I pulled from my Twitter posts and retweeted Twitter posts. I hope you find them of interest:
The ICC Network highlights IHEC Blog & IEB&N Blog on their network page
Sizing up the competition: the future of international postsecondary student enrollment in the US (via @IDPDRIE)
Internationalization Monitor of Education in the Netherlands 2008 (via @IDPDRIE)
I added more to IHEC Blog post "Is International Education an Agent of Democratization?"
List of Faith Based Exchange Programs (courtesy of The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, @CitizenDiplomat)
Glamour, not strategy, drives students abroad (UK)
New, stricter rules for student visas in UK (via @IIEglobal)
More Diversity Sought Among U.S. Participants in Study Abroad Programs
"End the Travel Ban on Cuba" a campaign by the LAWG
UC Berkeley researchers say US needs "national strategy" to recruit foreign students up to 1.25 million (via @IIEglobal)
NAFSA.news: Promoting Education Abroad at Community Colleges (via @NAFSA)
American Diplomacy's Latest Issue (via @pdworldwide)
International students: a $100 billion business? (via @WESFans)
Monday Morning blog post now up on US Center for Citizen Diplomacy's site (via @CitizenDiplomat)
Earlier this week on was going through research notes and non-published manuscripts and went on a Twitter fest and sent several tweets relating to the history of international education. Following are a few of my Twitter posts:
- The United Kingdom reported that the number of non-European Union international students rose 23% during 2002-2003 over the previous year
- Enrollment figures for international students in the U.S. dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004
- By September 11, 2002 the US had a web based student data collection system known as the Interim Student & Exchange Authentication System
- On June 18 1999, British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a new international education policy for the United Kingdom
- The National Security Education Act of 1991 established the Boren National Security Education Program Trust Fund
- The International Student Exchange Program was initially funded by a grant from the United States Information Agency (USIA) until 1996
- The National Defense Education Act of 1958 highlighted the critical importance of education to national defense
- It's estimated that approx. 350K German POWs participated in re-education programs & took what they learned back to Germany
- In 1948 the United States Congress passed The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act (also known as The Smith-Mundt Act)
- In 1947 the US Office of Military Government w/ US DoS initiated program to bring almost 10K Germans to U.S. to learn democratic principles
- The Fulbright Act of 1946 set in motion a great history of int'l education exchange between the United States and the rest of the world
- 1936 Buenos Aires Convention called for exchanges to strengthen intellectual cooperation & cultural relations between US & Latin America
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