Global Education

Tulane University officials signed an agreement Wednesday to help leaders at an Iraqi university develop what will be that country's only school of public health. There is no schedule yet for completing the school at the University of Wasit in Al Kut City, said Dr. Pierre Buekens, dean of Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Sallie Mae, the nation’s No. 1 financial services company specializing in education, today announced the availability of a new solution for schools to process international wire payments more efficiently.

Officials who work with international students at universities in the Grand Forks region say several safeguards, well-known in the industry, would have prevented the scandal that rocked Dickinson (N.D.) State University earlier this month.

Rising above the dingy back streets of the Albanian capital, the silhouette, instantly recognizable, shines out like a promise: the Statue of Liberty, symbol of America, land of opportunity — and also the logo of the University of New York, Tirana (U.N.Y.T.), where students pay more than $32,500 for what a sign in the lobby describes as “the only real European and American education” in the country.

Green River Community College, 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition — but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by overseas agents who get 15 percent of the $9,732 first-year tuition.

This is the University of Washington’s new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians — more than a quarter of the class — get a free ride.

Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment.

Hendrix College was selected to receive the Institute of International Education (IIE)’s 2012 Andrew Heiskell Award for International Partnerships for its leadership role in the development of the Rwanda Presidential Scholars Program.

More than two dozen students and professors from Bethel University were able to escape a fire Thursday at a hostel in Brussels, Belgium.

After a decade of rapid growth, universities have slowed their pace of opening branch campuses abroad, and much of the activity has moved from the Middle East to the Far East, according to a survey by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, a private British research group, scheduled for release Thursday.