Study Abroad News from Russia / 05.10.2006
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We invite senior pupils and their parents to the free seminar devoted
to the hotel management in Switzerland! Switzerland is famous for
quality of its educational programs in this field.
A big advantage of the education is training with salary - average
salary of $2,000 a month is guaranteed! The seminar is due to take
place to the address: 14, Kalashnyy pereulok (Arbatskaya metro,
Filevskaya line), Moscow. To participate in the seminar turn to
Educational Group "Otkrytyy Mir": tel.(495) 290-0540, 290-1951,
792-5125, in...@open-world.ru, www.open-world.ru .
NEWS
--- Discounts for study in Margate Language Centre in England
Company "Global Dialog" informs that British language school Margate
Language Centre offers to all students who booked intensive language
courses in October-November and who live in school apartments of Culver
House the free studies after the second week. Details by tel.:
231-7048.
http://www.globaldialog.ru/news/fantasticheskoe-predlozhenie-po-obucheniju-na
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/26.09.2006/4/comments
--- Russian vs Foreign education
What are advantages and disadvantages of studying abroad and whether
Russian should adopt a Western system of education - on air of "Radio
of Russia" in the program "Minor report" president of Russian Academy
of education, doctor of educational science, professor Nikolay D.
Nikandrov talks. Only part of the interview is available on the site.
To listen to the whole talk including questions of listeners, one can
load an audio file.
http://www.radiorus.ru/news.html?id=175406
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/28.09.2006/1/comments
--- Business schools ranking from Wall Street Journal
It's the sixth time Wall Street Journal has published [1] an annual
ranking of business schools put together with Harris Interactive based
on questioning of 4,125 recruit who hire MBA graduates. 85
business-schools are presented in three lists: national ranking
includes 19 USA educational institutions; regional - 51 USA business
schools; international - 9 business schools from USA, 9 - from Europe,
3 - from Canada, 3 - from Central America.
Top five is as follows:
National business-schools:
1. (2*) University of Michigan (Ross)
2. (1) Dartmouth College (Tuck)
3. (3) Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
4. (8) Columbia University
5. (7) University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
Regional business-schools:
1. (4) Thunderbird (Garvin)
2. (3) Ohio State University (Fisher)
3. (6) Brigham Young University (Marriott)
4. (1) Purdue University (Krannert)
5. (2) Michigan State University (Broad)
International business-schools:
1. ESADE (Spain)
2. IMD, International Institute for Management Development
(Switzerland)
3. IPADE (Mexico)
4. London Business School (THE UK)
5. Thunderbird (Garvin, USA)
*In brackets there are the positions the schools had in 2005 ranking.
About method of ranking and peculiarities of schools you can read in
Russian on the site [2] "Е-xecutive".
http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/index.html
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/30.09.2006/1/comments
Links:
[1] - http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/
[2] -
http://www.e-xecutive.ru/education/ratingedu/newfolder6819/article_4597/
--- About Ford Fund scholarship program one can learn through Skype
Since September 19 there is interactive connection with Moscow office
of International Ford Fund scholarship program (IFP). Now every day
from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. (in Moscow time) office employees will answer
to those who desire all questions about the next competition of
scholarship program with the help of Skype users of which can call to
each other free of charge through Internet. Skype-name of Russian IFP
representative office is ifp-russia. To learn about all possibilities
of Skype and to download it is possible from its official site [1].
http://www.iie.ru/pgms/IFP/index.htm
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/01.10.2006/1/comments
Links:
[1] - http://www.skype.com/intl/ru/
--- The number of foreign students in New Zealand reduced in 2005 by
10%
Data Management and Analysis Division of the Ministry of Education
published recent data of students' number in 2005. At July 2005 in NZ
there were 48,071 international students in secondary schools and
educational institutions of post-school education (universities,
polytechnics). It's by 10.2% less than in July of 2004. In particular,
there were 11,984 international students in secondary schools. During a
year since July of 2004 еhe number of foreign students reduced by 22%
and was about 1.6% from the total number of schoolchildren in the
country. In the sector of post-school education the percentage of
international students is far higher - approximately one tenth part,
however they are getting less too. A six-year period of international
students' number growth gave place to drop by 7.5% a year - from 38,994
in July of 2004 to 36,087 in July of 2005. Complete statistics data for
2005 can be found on the site [1] Education Statistics of New Zealand.
(Based on the materials of newsletter "eduABROAD - education in
Australia and NZ")
http://www.content.mail.ru/pages/p_18976.html
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/01.10.2006/2/comments
--- Advertising "Kariera" magazine in October
There is a new portion of materials on foreign education in October
issue of "Kariera". As a continuation of review of European scholarship
programs for Russians it tells [1] about possibilities of financial
help in the Netherlands and Ireland. Earlier "Kariera" studied
scholarships for studies in Germany [2], as well as in Austria, Belgium
and France [3]. Another materials from the new issue is dedicated to
[4] programs "Language + training" within the framework of which a
student study in a language school and then has a professional training
in an organization, often without getting salary for it. The article is
rich in data from the leading world magazine for educational agencies
Language Travel Magazine. It's rarely that the "Kariera" issue does not
contain a material about business education, and October issue is no
exception. The report [5] "Students on trust" is written by a student
of MBA program of Lomonosov MSU Higher Business School who in May-June
studied in Summer school of business in Beijing University. Apart from
describing peculiarities of studying process, the author shares his
thoughts about national mentality and specificity of making business in
Chinese way.
http://kariera.idr.ru/?idcat=4&number=38
Comments:
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/01.10.2006/3/comments
Links:
[1] - http://kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1203
[2] - http://eduabroad.ru/journal/journal/05.09.2006/1
[3] - http://eduabroad.ru/journal/journal/05.07.2006/2
[4] - http://kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1204
[5] - http://kariera.idr.ru/items/?item=1206
VACANCIES
--- Head of Department of education abroad ("EDUMARKET")
We invite Head of department of education abroad (consultations and
placement). Working experience in educational agency should be around
three years. Salary is fixed plus percentage.
Please send your resumes to the address: mai...@edumarket.ru .
EVENTS
October 1-5: exhibition on education abroad in the Far East (Students
International)
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/26.09.2006/2
October 5: Hotel Institute Montreux presentation ("Petrolingua")
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/02.09.2006/3
October 10: meetings with IMI representative ("Magistr")
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/28.09.2006/2
October 12: talk "On study in USA university" (American center, SPb)
http://eduabroad.ru/journal/26.09.2006/1
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