International Education in the News

WES Bid to Help Refugees Lacking Academic Records – The PIE News
World Education Services has begun a pilot program in Canada that will provide Syrian refugees with recognition of their academic credentials. The initiative will also be rolled out in the U.S. and eventually be made available to refugees from any country.  

Why I Started my Faculty Career in the Middle East – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Author James Hodapp makes the case for why new Ph.D.s in the humanities should consider working overseas. 

Can Individual Outcomes Lead to Communal Impacts? – The Association of Commonwealth Universities
IIE’s Mirka Martel discusses the methodology behind tracking the institutional and societal outcomes of individual scholarship programs, including that of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP).

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