For the first time in more than a decade, applications and enrollments by international graduate students at American colleges and universities declined in 2016-17, a new study has found. The study, conducted by the Council of Graduate Schools, suggests a continued softening of interest in American institutions among foreign grad students, an ebbing that was noted a year ago.
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Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
Le mercredi 29 novembre 2017 à 9h30, au campus du Collège Mathieu à Regina, les deux établissements ont signé un protocole d’entente permettant au Collège Mathieu d’offrir un programme bilingue de sciences infirmières auxiliaires et ce, en traduisant et en adaptant en français le programme de Saskatchewan Polytechnic.
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
Collège Mathieu, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, and the University of Regina today signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) committing the parties to work together in mutual support of nursing/health related French-language educational programs.
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
International student enrollment in graduate science and engineering programs in the US dropped in 2017 after several years of increases.
Science and engineering fields saw a 6% decrease in international graduate students from the fall of 2016 to the fall of 2017, and almost all of that decrease was concentrated in two fields: computer science and engineering.
Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
Congress failed to reach a last-minute agreement Friday night to avoid a government shutdown. That won't mean immediate consequences for federal student aid recipients or institutional funding. But institutions and students depending on Education Department programs could see an impact if the shutdown drags on.
Friday, Jan. 19, 2018
Maybe, if Michael Kehler has his way, there will be a new generation of detoxified masculinity. Kehler hopes to use his platform as the newly appointed research chair of North America's first masculine studies program at the University of Calgary, to start a conversation about how to be boy and a man in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp.
From the sounds of it, that means out with mansplaining and in with careful listening.
Friday, Jan. 19, 2018
The University of Toronto announced that starting this fall it is reducing its tuition rate for most international Ph.D. students to the lower rate paid by domestic students. Because Ph.D. students typically get four- to five-year funding packages covering the cost of their tuition and fees, the practical effect for students will be felt when those funding packages run out.
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018
I suspect that many readers of this article will either dismiss the premise that colleges and universities in the United States will continue to lose international student market share or dispute the facts I list.
Some may hope that the decline in international student enrolments in the United States for the autumn 2017 semester was just a blip; a one-off. Still others will blame the decline on the outcome of the 2016 election.
Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
Higher education and research is under threat not just from nationalism under Donald Trump’s presidency but also from the character of the man in office and long-held conservative ideology, speakers concluded at the New Nationalism and Universities conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley, in the United States last month.
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017
The House version of the Republicans’ tax reform legislation would cause financial hardship for colleges and the students who attend them, while the Senate’s plan would be only slightly less damaging, higher-education officials and advocates said as lawmakers moved toward drafting a final bill.