from the Hindu “In spite of scoring 93 per cent in core subjects, it is difficult to pursue my dream career in medicine in India, considering the intense competition. But Russia will provide me the opportunity. On completion of the course, I can return and practise medicine,” said S. Priyadarshi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Foreign Universities’
April 20th, 2011 - 7:43 am § in Schools & Colleges
College Tutition in UK: $10,000
Leaks say Conservative Government is raising numbers to $10,000, The Guardian estimates the real number as $14,000! from the Guardian UK (excerpted) Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government’s access watchdog revealed that all universities intend [...]
Why American Education Outclasses the World.
Recently I had the “fun” of being invited to evaluate the world’s elite universities. I had read these ratings before but had not thought much about the process. One thing I REALLY tried to do was to be fair when it came to world class universities outside the US. I was especially [...]
April 8th, 2011 - 8:01 am § in Misc.
UPDATE: How to Donate for Japan Relief
From our American School in Japan alumnus, a complete listing of reputable charities engaged in relief work following the Tohoku Earthquake of March 11, tailored for donors outside Japan. Contact poster for complete info on donating from within Japan.[...]
China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years
David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 – far earlier than expected. That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy. The country [...]
March 31st, 2011 - 11:35 pm § in Politics
Presidential Perks: The President’s New Yacht
Ed. Imagine the Husky Lady in the Montlake Cut on game days! Well, not really for the the new Udub Prexy … but maybe a good idea? How about Paul Allen giving one of his yachts to the new Prexy? Here is a precedent we could follow: by Evgeniya Chaykovskaya Moscow News The boat […][...]
March 30th, 2011 - 1:18 am § in China
Scams: Invite to China
Received in my email. Note, no plans to pay my way! I go, pay them to talk! Someone must bite, I get a couple of these every week! Please feel free to respond for yourself, just don;t use my name! BIT’s 9th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology (IDDST) Theme:[...]
March 24th, 2011 - 4:15 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
University Senate Vote Boycotts Ties to Israel
What happens if you have two ideas a strange as Zionism and Faculty Governance? Some call it democracy. Ed. I am a Zionist & a firm believer in faculty governance. I believe that Israel has as much right to exist as France or Egypt and a lot more right to exist than such post colonial [&hellip[...]
March 18th, 2011 - 10:18 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
WERITAS: In 2008, before the cuts, did the UW receive the second highest appropriation per student in the country?
Ed. The issue of privatizing the “public ivies” .. flagship state universities that rank with the Ivy League … is VERY real. Berkeley and the Univ. of Wisconsin are already well along that path. The debate places the commitment of faculty and, often the business community, agai[...]
March 11th, 2011 - 9:59 am § in America
While the tea spills, know-nothings are expelling essential foreigners from the USA.
A third of America’s entrepreneurs come from the “other world.” The US University system is a magnet for two reasons … our great universities and our entrepreneurial economy. Now we are weakening our universities, ignoring the international education market and joining Ar[...]