Briefly: Education: Student Exchanges Between U.S. and Other Countries Rise to Record

U.S.-foreign exchanges of students rise to record

Student exchanges between the United States and other nations carry on to increase, in accordance to the Open Doors Report on Worldwide Educational Exchange. The report, published last week, mentioned the numbers of foreigners attending postsecondary institutions in the United States and Americans learning abroad have been at record highs.

Released by the Institute of Worldwide Education, a nonprofit organization, the report mentioned the amount of foreign college students at American universities and schools in the 2012-2013 academic 12 months rose fifty five,000 from the previous year to nearly 820,000.

Undergraduate college students from China accounted for the greatest enhance, 26 %, raising the variety of Chinese college students of all levels at postsecondary institutions to 235,000.

The amount of Americans going abroad for credit score university programs rose to just in excess of 283,000 in the 2011-twelve academic 12 months, the most recent yr for which people figures are available, a record, but even now meaning that fewer than ten % of American college students will have studied abroad in the course of their undergraduate degree.

“We need to have to enhance considerably the quantity of U.S. college students who go abroad,” mentioned Allan E. Goodman, the institute’s president. — CHRISTOPHER SCHUETZE

Australia-Indonesia Center aims to bolster bilateral ties

Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, and the Indonesian vice president, Boediono, officially unveiled the Australia-Indonesia Center final week in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

The center “will strengthen business, schooling and study links in between the two countries,” Mr. Abbott mentioned Wednesday. Canberra will give 15 million Australian dollars, or $ 14 million, in funding for the center in excess of four many years.

The Australia-Indonesia Center will be primarily based at Monash University in Melbourne, with branches at the Australian Nationwide University, in Canberra the University of Sydney the University of Melbourne and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Study Organization, in Australia. — YENNI KWOK

Movie institute’s scholarships to focus on Chinese culture

The American Movie Institute has commenced a scholarship system for college students to build screenplays that could foster a greater knowing of Chinese culture, background and literature.

The program, the AFI/IDG China Story Fellowship, funded by Hugo Shong, chairman of the publishing firm IDG Greater China, will pay out for nine 1st-12 months college students from the institute’s conservatory in Los Angeles to pay a visit to China for cultural study and to compose a characteristic-length screenplay although finishing their second 12 months scientific studies.

“Too numerous Americans only know Chinese culture by way of animated movies like ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and ‘Mulan,”’ Mr. Shong mentioned in a statement released on Wednesday. “By initiating this undertaking with AFI, I am hoping that together we can jointly encourage a new generation of American screenwriters to create far more and diverse sorts of screenplays about China.” — YENNI KWOK

Briefly: Education: Student Exchanges Between U.S. and Other Countries Rise to Record