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Tag Archives: america
U.S. universities with most international students
Guess which US universities host the most international students? Here’s the list of the 25 US universities which had the largest number of international students in 2010-2011. These 25 universities had a total of 144,359 international students – or 20 … Continue reading
What international students students in America
The number of international students in the United States rose from 690,923 in 2009-2010 to 723,277 in 2010-2011, a 4.7 per cent increase, according to the Open Doors Data from the Institute of International Education. But what are the subjects … Continue reading
Asian students in America
The number of students from Singapore went up from 4,051 in 2009-2010 to 4,356 in 2010-2011, but Singapore is not on the list of 25 countries that send the most number of students to the United States, as we saw … Continue reading
Top 25 countries sending students to USA
The largest number of international students in the United States is from China, and they are a growing band. Their number went up from over 127,800 in 2009-2010 to more than 157,500 in 2010-2011, an increase of more than 23 … Continue reading
How Mrs Lee’s early illness sparked a diplomatic row
Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s autobiography bears witness to how he felt about his wife, Madam Kwa Geok Choo, who died yesterday at the age of 89. He recalled his angry outburst when the Americans could not send a … Continue reading
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Times on the Net: You can’t beat the traffic
The New York Times is the newspaper with the best website and gets around four million daily unique visitors (estimated cookies) – way above the other newspapers I checked on Google Trends and Double Click Ad Planner. (See the charts … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Singapore Tagged abroad, america, britain, cookies, daily mail, double click, google, google trends, guardian, local, new york times, straits times, telegraph, times of india, traffic, usa today, users, visitor, wall street journal, washington post, website Comments Off
NUS 34th, NTU 174th in Times university rankings
The National University of Singapore is 34th and Nanyang Technological University 174th in the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings powered by Thomson Reuters, released today. American universities swept the board. Here’s the list of the world’s top 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Singapore Tagged america, american, asia, boston, chicago, education, higher education, hong kong, london, nanyang technological university, national university of singapore, new york, nus, pohang, rankings, thomson reuters, times, tokyo, united kingdom, united states, university, world Comments Off
Global rankings and how they are done
A country's ranking in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report depends largely on an executive opinion survey. If the business executives in one country rate its infrastructure, government institutions or education system highly, its score goes up in those … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Singapore Tagged america, economic development board, economy, education, executive opinion survey, gdp, global competitiveness report, judicial independence, life expectancy, per capita, purchasing power parity, rankings, sweden, switzerland, united states, world economic forum Comments Off
How the Global Competitiveness Report is prepared
There were more respondents from Singapore than from many bigger economies to the World Economic Forum's executive opinion survey this year. The survey is used to prepare the annual Global Competitiveness Report. Singapore was ranked the world's third most competitive … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Singapore Tagged america, britain, china, education, executive, executive opinion survey, global competitiveness report, india, japan, judicial independence, politician, sweden, switzerland, trust, world economic forum Comments Off
Public trust of politicians highest in Singapore
Singapore is first in the world for quality of higher education, first in math and science and Singapore's politicians enjoy the highest public trust in the world. That's according to the Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, released by the World Economic … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Tagged america, competition, corruption, economy, education, global competitiveness, government, inflation, innovation, judicial independence, labour, market, math, pay, politician, productivity, public trust, rankings, research, science, sweden, switzerland, technology, world economic forum Comments Off
