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IIE PEER PREP Scholarship Award Ceremony in Mae Sot, Thailand

2 Jul, 2019

On June 24, IIE PEER PREP held a Bridge Scholarship award ceremony in Mae Sot, Thailand. The awards were given to displaced students who will be studying in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Thailand. Every year some displaced students are selected to study

Open Learning Initiative Plus Program (OLIve-Plus) - Academic Year 2019-2020, Bard College Berlin

24 Jun, 2019

Higher Education Opportunity for Refugees Living in Germany Bard College Berlin is Hosting a Full-Time, 5-Month Preparatory Program for Refugee Students Wishing to Apply for a MA at Central European University, Vienna. If you have an upper- intermediate (B2)

Amjad's Journey: Displaced Students and the Question of Mobility

7 May, 2019

- Written by Nele Feldmann, Head of IIE Student Emergency Initiatives I remember my first summer camp and the excitement of spending two weeks without my parents. I remember my first time on an airplane, the first time I crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the first

Advancing education for all: Lessons learned at the IIE PEER Forum

6 May, 2019

The IIE PEER Forum gathered education in emergencies professionals to discuss proactive solutions to the equity gap in higher education for refugee and displaced students. Amid many engaging and thoughtful discussions, these are lessons learned from the first

Julia Stasch-IIE Scholarship for Refugees

4 May, 2019

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the Julia Stasch-IIE Scholarship for Refugees. Administered as part of IIE's Student Emergency Initiatives, this scholarship opportunity will support students who came to the United States

"Only education could have gotten me here": Reflections from the IIE PEER Forum

25 Apr, 2019

As the early spring sunlight shone through the 12th floor windows at IIE’s New York headquarters, the hum of conversation steadily grew. New acquaintances introduced themselves and old friends continued conversations that began perhaps half a world away. The

Inaugural IIE PEER Global Forum Seeks Collaboration on Refugees in Higher Education

11 Apr, 2019

Originally printed and published by The PIE News. The first-ever Global Forum for the Institute of International Education’s PEER initiative was held in New York City on April 4 and brought together international educators and facilitators to discuss refugee

Job Opportunity: HEalth data LInkage for ClinicAL (HELICAL) benefit

21 Mar, 2019

Apply by April 18, 2019! HELICAL is an EU-funded Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) with 17 Academic Partners coordinated by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in Dublin Ireland. The post is a PhD studentship to be appointed as part of the “HEalth data

Job Opportunity: HEalth data LInkage for ClinicAL benefit - Extracellular Vesicles (EV) as markers of active disease in AAV

13 Mar, 2019

The post is one PhD studentship to be appointed to the Department of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna as part of the “HEalth data LInkage for ClinicAL benefit (HELICAL)“ H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 Innovative Training Networks. They aim to train a new

Higher Education for Displaced Women: A defense against human trafficking

28 Feb, 2019

“Their time is up.” Thus spoke Oprah Winfrey at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, of women who do not dare speak up against powerful, dangerous men (“Read Oprah,” 2018). In the United States and elsewhere we are reckoning with the systemic disregarding of women