Latin American programmes to send more students to US universities are beginning to bear fruit, even if the number of Latin American students in US higher education institutions remains way behind those of China, India, South Korea and even Vietnam.
Brazil, whose left-of-centre government launched a programme to send 100,000 undergraduate students to foreign universities three years ago, was one of the countries that showed the biggest increase among foreign students at US colleges this year, according to a new study by the New York-based Institute of International Education.
According to the IIE’s study of international students in US higher education schools, titled ‘Open Doors,’ there was a 22.2 per cent increase in the number of
