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Essential Tips for Designing Successful Entrepreneurship Education Programs
IIE staff member Emil Levy recently returned from the British Council sponsored conference on Entrepreneurship in Higher Education in Boston. The conference, which featured a variety of speakers from both the U.S. and from across the pond, not only explored the role of Entrepreneurship in higher education, but also juxtaposed the British and U.S. approach to teaching entrepreneurship.
Alumni Tracking: Challenges and Considerations of Designing an Innovative Study
When it comes to develping an Alumni Tracking system, IIE recommends using an innovative approach in tracking study design and collecting data on alumni. A tracking study intends to systematically analyze the lasting or significant changes – positive or negative, significant or not – in people’s lives brought about by a given action or series of actions.
Education and the Workforce: Matching Skills and Needs
The annual World Innovation Summit on Education is a unique, multi-sectoral education conference. One of the aims of the Qatar Foundation, which convenes the Summit in Doha, is to elevate education to the ranks of other urgent global challenges.
An Education Crisis in Syria: How You Can Help
In March, IIE’s ESF gave over $90,000 to Syrian students in the U.S. who could not access resources to continue funding their own education through the Syria Emergency Student Fund. These grants enabled 46 students across the country to continue their degree programs in fields instrumental to Syria’s future, such as engineering, surgery, journalism, business administration and education.
Investing in the U.S. – Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership: Current Government Efforts and What YOU Can Do To Help
There are inexhaustible opportunities for U.S. – Indonesia academic collaboration, the majority of which remain untapped by U.S. and Indonesian educators. Through continued efforts from both countries to increase awareness, we will see a day when there is a strong and steady flow of Americans and Indonesians traveling to each other’s country for educational opportunities.
The GE Scholar-Leaders Program: 10 Years Young
When IIE began administering the GE Scholar-Leaders Program, we had a basic model. The GE Foundation had been supporting underrepresented students in other areas of the world for many years, but we wanted to take the program to a new level.
When Will You Find Us an American School That Wants to Build a Branch Campus Here?
Over the past twelve months, IIE has been visited by education officials from nearly all of the countries undergoing transformation because of the so-called Arab/Asian Spring. Each has asked similar questions about access to U.S. higher education. There is an urgent need to provide education for an entire generation (or two) that has been largely isolated.
The Role of the University in World Society
Universities have a duty to save knowledge when it is threatened. Around the world, scholars have long suffered harassment, torture and persecution as a result of their work. In the worst cases, scholars pay with their lives for their dedication to scholarship and freedom of thought. Participating in IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund is one way that universities have played a role in preserving knowledge.