(From ACE web site, 10.16.06)
Washington, DC (October 16, 2006)—Trends in international student enrollment reveal a shifting market that could dramatically impact the United States’ position as the destination of choice for the largest group of international students, a new issue brief released by the American Council on Education (ACE) finds (read more here).
Among the Key Highlights:
- In 2004, there were 2.5 million international students worldwide, a 56 percent increase from 1999 when there were 1.68 million international students. By 2025, it is projected that there will be 7.2 million international students.
- Declines in the U.S. market share of international students in the past five years have been accompanied by steady increases in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.
- International student enrollment in the United States peaked in 2002-03 and then declined in the following two years by 2.4 percent and 1.3 percent, falling from 586,323 in 2002-03 to 565,039 in 2004-05.
- Among the top six host countries, the United States had the weakest growth in international enrollment from 1999-2000 to 2004-05. While international student enrollment grew by nearly 17 percent in the United States, it grew by 29 percent in the United Kingdom, 46 percent in Germany, 81 percent in France, 42 percent in Australia, and 108 percent in Japan.
Document:
- Students on the Move: The Future of International Students in the United States is available as a PDF document on the ACE web site. (read ACE Issue brief here)
(From The Union-Tribune by Eleanor Yang Su, 10.26.2006)
College tuition and fees continued to rise across the country this year, outpacing grant aid for students and leading to an unprecedented reliance on private and unsubsidized federal loans, according to a report released yesterday by the College Board.
Tuition and fees at public and private universities rose an average of 6 percent this year, a rate that continues to slow from the double-digit increases of a few years ago. Adjusted for inflation, tuition and fees have jumped 35 percent for public university students in the past five years – the largest jump for any five-year period in 30 years(…)Reasons cited for the increases are rises in utility prices and fringe benefits, along with a dip in state and local appropriations. (read more here)
(From: Interpress Service New Agency by Daniela Estrada,10.27.06)
[Daniela Estrada writes]Latin America is the developing region that has made the most progress in early childhood education, although improvement has been uneven, says the new global monitoring report on Education for All (EFA) 2007 (read more here).
(From UNESCO Education Portal, 10.26.06)
Latin America and the Caribbean leads the developing world in the provision of pre-school education, according to the annual Education for All Global Monitoring Report, published by UNESCO today. However, despite well-documented benefits for child development and well-being, the Report finds that this area remains the forgotten link in the education chain in many regions, and that half the world’s countries have no early childhood care and education policy for children under age three.
Early childhood care and education, the first of six Education for All goals the world is committed to achieving by 2015, is the theme of this edition of the Report. The study also includes an assessment of progress towards the other five objectives, showing a marked acceleration in primary school enrolments, for both boys and girls, and an increase in aid to education, offset in several countries by a decline in national education spending. (read more here)
This website, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, contains resources for support K-12 teachers. The Inside Teaching website has:
The site indicates is intention to become “an environment of learning, a ‘living archive’ that relies upon the contributions of visitors in order to grow and to thrive.” (read more here)
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Inside Teaching Website
(From: The Guardian by Jonathan Watts, 10.26.06)
[Jonathan Watts writes] Riot police have been sent to a college campus in China after a protest by students led to looting and vandalism. The violence at the Clothing Vocational College in Jiangxi province was the second case of serious campus unrest in less than six months to be sparked by accusations that profit-orientated education authorities had deceived students about the value of their diplomas.( ….)Such problems are increasingly common in the market-driven education system, where many prestigious state-run institutions have established subsidiary – and often legally murky – private schools to generate more income. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, education, formerly free, is now the biggest expense for the average household.One report by the academy noted that the commercialisation of education had led to “a serious collapse of its public reputation” (read more here).
(From The Washingtonpost by Reuters, 10.25.06)
[ Reuter writes] China’s state television aired a lengthy investigative report on Monday on how the privately run college had recruited about 20,000 students, well above approved quotas, in the past three years by promising them diplomas it was not qualified to award.Private colleges have boomed in China in the past decade, accommodating those who fail to be admitted into prestigious state universities in fiercely competitive entrance exams. But private schools are badly regulated (read more here).
(From RWLO Resource Library)
The Real World Learning Objects (RWLO) Resource Library is an online repository of Internet-based learning objects designed so that community college faculty can easily access and adapt for use in their classes (read more here).
(From EduResources Weblog, by JH, 10.25.06)
[JH write] The library is searchable and browsable, with resources categorized into four broad subject areas: Mathematics, Science, Teacher Education and Educational Technology, and Language Arts. This resource should be useful for both teachers and students. The RWLO site includes a Technical FAQ and links to other online repositories for instructional resources (read more here).
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RWLO Resource Library
The 2006 UNIVERSITY TWINNING and networking scheme “UNITWIN” directory is now available online. It is an important networking tool for one of UNESCO’s major education networks.UNESCO launched the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme in 1991 as an international action plan for academic solidarity to strengthen inter-university co-operation with particular emphasis on support to higher education in the developing countries.
(From UNESCO in the spotlight, by Corinne Ilgun, 10.22.06)
The 2006 UNIVERSITY TWINNING and networking scheme “UNITWIN” directory is now available online. It is an important networking tool for one of UNESCO’s major education networks. Over the last fourteen years the UNITWIN Program has developed into a truly worldwide, inter-university co-operation scheme based on interdisciplinarity, intersectoriality and networking. It has since become one of the major intersectorial Programs and an integral part of activities developed by UNESCO various Sectors, services and Field Offices.Today 584 UNESCO Chairs and 66 UNITWIN Networks have been in the Program involving over 700 institutions in 124 countries. It contains full information on each of reporting Chairs and Networks covering 70 disciplines and identifies the contact persons, partners, events and publications for each one.
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A new article about the reactions of students about the plans by the Department of Education, revealed by the Guardian last week (The Guardian: Universities urged to spy on Muslims, 10.16.06), for the British government to ask lecturers and university staff across Britain to spy on “Asian-looking” and Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism and supporting terrorist violence
(From The Guardian by Helen Pidd, 10.24.06)
It could have leapt straight out of the pages of a Cold War novel. But the document leaked to the Guardian last week, revealing that the government is drawing up plans to ask dons to spy on their students, wasn’t a John Le Carré exclusive. It was drafted by the Department for Education and Skills, and was, before its interception at least, heading for universities and other higher education institutions across Britain. The 18-page tome asks lecturers and other university staff to pass on to the special branch any Muslim and “Asian-looking” students they suspect of involvement in Islamic fundamentalism or supporting terrorism. One example cited in the document involves a librarian reporting that two “Asian males” have been seen in a university IT room looking at bomb-making websites. The government, which believes universities are “fertile recruiting grounds” for extremism, calls it “monitoring”. The National Union of Students thinks it borders on McCarthyism. (read more here)
