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The article focuses on the developments in the higher education of the indigenous populations of Bolivia. The government of President Evo Morales began adopting policies that will make universities offer better services for the country's large indigenous underclass. The country joined several other Latin American countries in introducing changes in higher education designed to promote social and political agendas. Based on estimates, almost half of the students enrolled in Bolivia's 11 public universities are of indigenous origin.

Considers the European Community's document `Memorandum on Higher Education,' which is intended to be a basis for discussion on national difference, academic exchanges and student mobility, and instead has provoked considerable debate. Concerns the EC will exert too much control over higher education; Strong economic reasons for expanding postsecondary enrollments; Higher stipends offered to students in technical fields; The EC's ERASMUS program to promote mobility.

The article reports that the U.S. State Department invited 120 college leaders to talk about how to make American higher education more engaged with the world and counter the perception that the U.S. no longer welcomes foreign students. President George W. Bush announced a $114-million proposal to increase the teaching of critical foreign languages, including Arabic, Chinese and Farsi. This year 536 low-income undergraduates will each receive a $5,000 Gilman scholarship to study abroad for at least four weeks.

This article presents two cases that discusses the reputation of the U.S. as a global educational destination in the year of 2015. According to an analysis that discusses the best scenario, Over the last decade, China, India, South Korea, and other countries made great strides in developing their own graduate schools. But by maintaining its investments in research and higher education, the United States continues to attract some of the best students from those countries. According to an analysis that discusses the worst scenario, a report on the most popular destinations for study abroad in 2015 marks a grim milestone for American higher education. After having been the undisputed first choice for many decades, the United States, with just under 300,000 foreign students enrolled last academic year, slipped to second place behind Great Britain.

This article presents information related to the six major foundations in the U.S. which are providing $200 million to strengthen African universities over the next five years, the expansion of an effort begun in 2000. The foundations were set to announce the decision in New York at a ceremony in which United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and the presidents of Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique were scheduled to participate. The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa was started in 2000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which pledged $100-million for five years but ended up investing $150-million.

The article focuses on university students' criticism about the inflexibility of the educational system in Czechoslovakia. They have complained about the old model of university education, the obligatory ideological courses being monitored by the Communist Party, and the virtually identical curricula set by the Ministry of Education in all universities. A new higher education law and some educational reforms being adopted in the country are also discussed.