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Namiko Bagirimvano, Mindy Hunthrop and Jeff Miller were honored with the Hoyt Purvis Award for their outstanding service to the field of international education at the U of A.

Balfour Beatty Living Places has partnered with Groundwork Northamptonshire, a charity working to transform lives in some of the countys most disadvantaged communities, to provide...

Lindsey Aloia, associate professor of communication and previously director of honor studies in Fulbright College, has been appointed associate dean in the Graduate School and International Education.

Through this program, students engage in academic coursework, cultural activities, and professional development opportunities while developing leadership and community service skills.

The authorities of Baze University, Abuja, have ordered the suspension of about 185 students of the institution due to outstanding fees. The affected students are under the Nigerian Government-sponsored Presidential Amnesty Programme’s scholarship. The undergraduates were said to have been asked to leave when they were about to sit their Digital Entrepreneurship examination.

BANGI: The review of the allowance rate provided to Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) scholars who are studying abroad is being made based on the tuition fees, study location and utility payment rate, said Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.

Letter to the Editor: Privatizing the bookstore would be disastrous The university is looking to sell the University of Calgary bookstore to Follett, an American corporation worth $2.7 billion. Bringing in a private corporation to sell textbooks to students would be kneecapping the student body at its most vulnerable during a pandemic, a recession and yearly tuition hikes.  Currently, textbooks are sold to students as close to at-cost as possible, keeping prices affordable. However, we all kno...

Despite challenging conditions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, eight international exchange students joined the UA community this semester. Some of the students were planning to study abroad at the UofA in Fall 2020 when the pandemic broke out last March. Since then, they have battled visa appointment cancellations, rescheduled flights, delayed program starts and uncertain circumstances at the UofA before arriving in January. The pandemic forced the closure of U.S. embassies worldwide, leaving...