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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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Taiwan launches new scholarships in bid to keep international graduates

The PIE News

Approximately $162 million will be invested in the plan, with eligible international students able to apply for government scholarships and living stipends from sponsoring companies. Yang said the new scholarships will mean students won’t face these issues. “The level of pay is one third of Korea or Japan.

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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

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

LSE Higher Education Blog

The Chinese government has been providing an increasing number of scholarships to African students as incentives to study in China However, the implications of this stark difference between the low number of Chinese students in Africa compared to the high number of African students in China is worthy of further investigation and research.

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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). References McKinney, K. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Sweller, J., Van Merrinboer, J.

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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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Law School's Enrollment Crisis? Looking Past the Headlines

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Tuition dependence increases as law school selectivity (and resulting salaries and job opportunities) decrease: private schools with the lowest selectivity (those with a median LSAT score of 152 or less) received an average of 95% of their revenue from tuition in 2012-13. This puts law schools in a bind.