The following came today (November 2, 2006) from the Institute of International Education in New York: The Council of Graduate Schools has just released the findings of its Fall 2006 enrollment survey, and we wanted to put it into context with the upcoming (November 13) release of Institute of International Education's Open Doors report on 2005/06 enrollments and our Fall 2006 enrollment survey to be released on November 13 as well. The CGS survey shows that total foreign student enrol...

For the last several weeks, I have been traveling in the Middle East on journalistic assignments. I thought I should alert G2K members to one of the most remarkable people I've encountered in my very long journalistic career -- His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, the UAE's Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Almost single handedly he created he created the country's Higher Colleges of Technology 20 years ago, and it now has 16 campuses around the UAE, and some 20...