More international students in America than ever
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that the large number of students attending post-secondary education in the United States are international students.
“The number of foreign students attending American colleges hit an all-time high in 2008, capping three consecutive years of vigorous growth, according to new data from the Institute of International Education,” reported the Chronicle.
The Chronicle also reported, “Some 671,616 international students attended U.S. institutions in 2008-09, an increase of almost eight per cent from a year earlier. First-time-student enrollments grew even more robustly, by nearly 16 per cent.”
According to the Atlas of Student Mobility there are roughly 123,901 international students attending a post-secondary institution in Canada as of 2008.
The most dominant international students in Canada were Chinese students, making up 33.2 per cent of the population while the smallest percentage was made up of German students at 2.4 per cent.
English public poll indicates people feel nurses don’t need a degree to be a nurse
According to a recent article in the Guardian, by the year 2013, all nurses in England have to obtain a degree in order to be a nurse.
The Guardian reported, “The government has announced that from 2013, all new nurses in England will have to spend at least three years being trained to degree level.”
In a poll the Guardian opened up to its readers, roughly 68.5 per cent said they feel there is no need for a nurse to have a degree, while 31.5 per cent said they should.
University hit hard by faculty criticism for storing books off campus
According to Insider Higher Ed Magazine (IHE), a university in the U.S. has recently faced some serious protests from staff for taking books off the shelf.
“The Syracuse University Library system is facing the classic book-lover’s dilemma: too many volumes, not enough shelves,” reported IHE.
“The stacks in the flagship Ernest S. Bird Library are at 98 per cent capacity, the on-campus archives are totally full and dozens — if not hundreds — of new volumes flood in each day,” IHE
continued.
Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries, told IHE that she thought she had the solution.
“Her plan was to ship rarely-used or redundant texts 250 miles southeast of campus, to a storage facility in Patterson, N.Y.. Readers and researchers would’ve been able to request books before 2 p.m. one business day and receive them the next. Space in Bird would be freed up
