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International universities eye Nepal’s high student mobility

The PIE News

Emphasising how Nepali students are now investing in quality education, Dwiraj Sharma, CEO, Alfa Beta explained how they are venturing into non-traditional courses. Students are also looking beyond traditional fields like business and IT, exploring options in healthcare, engineering, and applied sciences, stated Sharma.

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Netherlands: a third of international grads stay to work

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Lucette Roovers, director of global engagement at Breda University of Applied Sciences , told The PIE the “stay rate” of international students has been a focal point of the ongoing international student debate in the Netherlands. Previously, only around 20% of international students did so.

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

The PIE News

Of course the companies do a lot for their own workforces, I hope that Finnish vocational training institutes and universities of applied sciences develop more contacts with their Indian counterparts.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU. Take a stroll through campus and you’ll find visible markers of how the minoritized community shaped the institution dating back decades.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

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There is plenty of uncertainty to factor in, though, as Nick Hillman (Director, The Higher Education Policy Institute ) put it in a 5 July 2016 speech to the University of Nottingham’s executive board: No one knows what is going to happen for certain, so we can argue and act in favour of the future we desire.