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Scholarships attracting African students to Turkey

The PIE News

The numbers have grown to over 60,000 up from around 40,000 since 2019, thanks largely to scholarships by the Turkish government, and are bound to grow even higher in the future as the country intensifies its engagement with Africa. The scholarships could be part of the reason for the growth in enrolment.

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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The fanfare surrounding the decline in enrollments among students of color at elite schools partly reflects the medias preoccupation with elite education in the US. The availability and size of so-called merit scholarships is primarily determined by LSAT scores , a measure which consistently disadvantages Black and Hispanic students.

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Taiwan launches new scholarships in bid to keep international graduates

The PIE News

The education ministry will set up overseas offices in countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines to help meet its new target of attracting 320,000 international students by 2030. Yang said the new scholarships will mean students won’t face these issues.

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Africa-China HE engagement: a one-way road?

LSE Higher Education Blog

While China is proactive in recruiting African students, Africa seems to play a relatively passive role does this stark imbalance in student mobility pose future risks to Africas higher education?

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Is international student recruitment really worth It?

The PIE News

In 2012, I wrote in a PIE Blog that if we continued on this trajectory,international office directors would do themselves out of jobsas recruitment costs ate into margins. Despite the huge increase in international students enrolling in UK universities since 2012, the net financial benefit is diminishing.If The bottom line?

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A Scholarship in Telling Stories in the African Diaspora

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brooks met Naomi Hodge-Muse, co-author of Tales of Koehler Hollow , in 2012. Well, to my amazement, there was and is a very long-standing and pronounced African American presence throughout the history of Appalachia.”

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Searching for the Optimal Class Design to Maximize Learning

Faculty Focus

Simply, it is the way it combines cognitive and educational psychologyhow people learnwith the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), which focuses on how educators study and improve their teaching to increase student learning (McKinney, 2007). Educational Psychology Review 31, (2): 261-292. References McKinney, K.