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Bologna Country Updates: Southeastern Europe

By Nick Clark

In an attempt to benchmark progress that has been made towards the goal of establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010, WENR will, over the next three issues, be providing updates on the structural, legislative and institutional changes that have been implemented by each of the signatory countries in its efforts to comply with the reforms called for in the Bologna Declaration. [Continued]

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China: Number of Students Taking TOEFL Exam Drops The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam appears to be losing its attraction in China, with a sharp drop in the number of Chinese taking the test. China Daily reports its sources from the National Examination Center under the Ministry of Education said it is still hard to say whether the number of TOEFL participants this year hit a record low. In Beijing, TOEFL takers totaled approximately 10,000 this year, a sharp decline from more than 30,000 in previous years, and 100,000 in peak years, Beijing-based China Youth Daily reports. Many attribute the decline to the increased complication of securing U.S. study visas, the increasing popularity of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the concerted efforts by the United Kingdom and Australia to attract more overseas students. [Continued ... Read Full Story in the Asia-Pacific Section]

FEATURE

Iraq's students say, 'Welcome back, professor'

By Christina Asquith

After a decade of sanctions had left his physics lab a crumbling shell, Raad Mohammed decided it was time to go. In 1999, following a route trodden by thousands of the best and brightest of Iraq's academics, Dr. Mohammed escaped to Jordan without a goodbye to his lifelong colleagues. [Continued]

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