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German language barrier stalls African nurse recruitment

The PIE News

The partnership between Koblenz University of Applied Sciences and Kenya’s Mount Kenya University , whichpiloted over 2023 and 2024, has slowed because few candidates meet the required language skills. Language training and test facilities in Kenya both remain the key constraints for scaling up, he explained.

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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

The PIE News

The program, coordinated by Finlands ministry of economic affairs and employment, and ministry of education and culture, encourages education-based and work-based immigration. I am glad that Finnish educational institutes are interested in setting up cooperation and research programs here to facilitate educational collaboration.

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Campus sustainability: Where the U.S. lands in the world rankings

University Business

Each school was graded on attention to climate change, clean energy, water conservation, waste recycling, green transportation and sustainability education and research. The University of Connecticut excelled at recycling and sustainability education and research. The highest-ranked U.S. The University of Connecticut placed 10th.

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Pell Grant Expansion Extends Educational Opportunities to Thousands of Incarcerated Students

Insight Into Diversity

Data supports the positive impact of PEPs, revealing a 43% lower likelihood of recidivism and a 13% higher employment rate for participants, according to the Vera Institute and the RAND Corporation — a nonprofit policy think tank that conducts research on numerous public sectors, including education.

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NL: sector anticipates legislation to limit int’l recruitment

The PIE News

During a parliamentary debate on January 31, minister of education, culture and science Robbert Dijkgraaf said he will propose a new plan in March to lower the number of international students enrolling at Dutch universities. “As “By now, the Netherlands is well known for quality education at an affordable price.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. In other words, I should be the last person to call for an education that is more prescriptive or practical.

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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

” Princeton’s defense: “Operating expenses don’t include hundreds of millions in capital expenditures the endowment provides every year to fund things like research equipment and facilities.” Nor does it have a major nanoscience facility. Inequities pervade American higher education.

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