分类: 留学美国

慧聪网2007年9月19日转载《光明日报》文章：美国高校以新形态进入中国高等教育市场。 “我们没有数量目标；我们没有招收学生的数量计划。”美国塔芙茨大学（Tufts University）教务长和资深副校长詹伯儒(JamshedBharucha)，在面对提出入学申请的北京高中生的提问时，一再这样强调。日前，在北京王府饭店二楼的小会议室里，他用纯粹美国式的面谈高中生的方法，与5位优秀的北京学生进行了交流。而两天前，他刚与15位上海高中生进行过类似谈话。这是美国大学在进入中国高等教育市场时，开始出现的新的形态。 这种与申请入学高中生面谈的…

Via xinhuanet.com: BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Educational Testing Service (ETS),the promoter of the TOEFL test, has decided to provide 25,000 additional places on the Chinese mainland for people taking the internet version of its test, TOEFL iBT. The additional places will be available from July to December this year, according to China's National Education Examinations Authority (NEEA) on Tuesday, US-based ETS's partner on the Chinese mainland. "We will offer 14 TOEFL iBT administrat…

Experts advices on how to narrow down your choices of schools. Tempted to throw up your hands in confusion over the multiplicity of colleges to choose from? Feel like throwing darts at a wall papered with all those brochures stuffing your mailbox? In that case, you already know that narrowing your wish list to a mere handful of target, reach, and safety schools is tough. But wait. Did someone say a "mere handful"? Yes. Despite anecdotes of anxious students' applying to 20 schools or more,…

Article from missoulian.com, entitled Professor details flaws in American education, by ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian: Liberal arts may be too liberal for the good of students, history professor and author Patrick Allitt told University of Montana faculty and students Monday. Allitt is director of Emory University's Center for Teaching and Curriculum in Atlanta. While much of his expertise is in following how intellectual ideas like conservatism or communism mutate when translated into gover…

Reported on Xinhuanet (2007-04-03): ETS cancels plans to revise GRE General TestEducational Testing Service (ETS) announced its decision on Monday to cancel plans to launch the revised Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test, since the problems they generate outweighed the benefits of moving to the new format immediately. The decision was made in consultation with the Executive Committee of the GRE Board, said the world's largest private education testing and measurement organiza…