 | October 2023 - Los Angeles, CA About ACEI ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS EVALUATION INSTITUTE, INC. (ACEI)
Founded in 1994, ACEI is a full-service company providing complete and integrated services in-house in the areas of international education research, credential evaluation, and translation. And, through our Global Consulting Group®, we offer our expertise in the following specialties: Media and Branding, Global Pathways, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) to interested institutions and organizations around the globe. | TACRAO Annual Conference Denton, TX
October 29 - November 1, 2023
For more information, click here. | | Education News From Around the Globe | CHINA Young Chinese Embrace Budget-Friendly Elderly Universities Keen to relieve stress, 27-year-old Shiqi returned to a university campus to start learning yoga and ballet last month. Despite having graduated from university six years ago, she is still the youngest student in both her classes this time around. Young Chinese like Shiqi are increasingly signing up for these classes due to the diversity of their offerings as well as their relative cheapness. To read more, click here. | CZECH REPUBLIC Czech Universities See Exodus of Key Staff Due To Salaries Both Palacky University in Olomouc and Charles University in Prague are experiencing the departure of academic staff, often including key staff, due to the long-term underfunding of education, their rectors said after a meeting of the Czech Rectors Conference (CRC) on October 6, 2023. To read more, click here. | ETHIOPIA Barely 3% of Ethiopia high school students pass exams On October 10, 2023, the education ministry announced that only three percent of Ethiopia´s high school students passed their university entry exam, the education ministry announced on Monday. To read more, click here. | GREECE Ministry skirting legal hurdles to private universities The Ministry of Education will use a 2020 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union to allow private universities despite Article 16 of the Constitution expressly stating that tertiary education establishments must be public. To read more, click here. | IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) Iranian Students Undergo Face Scanning at Universities A week after the reopening of Iranian universities, reports from independent student sources indicate a trend of increasing security pressures and the widening scope of repression in universities. To read more, click here. | ISRAEL-PALESTINE Israel bombs Gaza university, alleging use by military The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) confirmed on Wednesday that it had bombed the Islamic University of Gaza and released a video of a building being targeted by an air strike. To read more, click here. | TURKEY Universities will 'no longer be known for bans,' says Erdoğan President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has emphasized the government's commitment to ensuring that universities Türkiye "remain free from bans, oppression, fights or ideological impositions." To read more, click here. |  Photo credit: UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis | | THE WORLD Refugee students placed at global universities Some 20 students from a refugee background have secured places at universities around the world in the first iteration of Duolingo English Test’s access program. To read more, click here. | FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES We’ve selected the following documentaries for your viewing consideration, available through our partner Video Project. The films are available for licensing to educational institutions and for event screening. Please contact michael@videoproject.org for information. | UNZIPPED: An Autopsy of American Inequality A searing expose of the growing affordable housing crisis in America, this intimate documentary focuses on one of the country's most iconic and income divided zip codes. Once a mecca for artists, outsiders, and a thriving Black community, Venice is now the frontline for America's heated battles over gentrification, lack of affordable housing, and homelessness. For viewing options, click here. | The Young Vote Democracy is being threatened, and young people are taking it personally. In 2016, only 39% of those 29 and under, the largest generation of eligible voters in US history, voted in the presidential election. What can we do to increase young voter participation and sustain a functional democracy? For viewing options, click here. | ACEI Global Consulting Group The Global Consulting Group is a division of ACEI that provides international education expertise with focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consulting, Global Pathway Consulting (Program/Curriculum Review for Partnerships between overseas institutions), and Media and Brand Consulting. Click here to view video presentation. | ACEI offers a comprehensive range of professional services that include: international credential evaluations; translations; consulting; and training. For more information on ACEI, please visit www.acei-global.org or Email: acei@acei-global.org. ACEI was founded and incorporated in 1994 in the State of California and is a Charter and Endorsed Member of the Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE). | | New to The Report? Click below to subscribe to this newsletter. | | |
