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There are more foreign students coming to study in America and spending billions of dollars yearly. Photo Credit: ASPA National Weblog . 14 Nov 2011 18:23 Africa/Lagos Foreign Students Contributed More than $20 Billion to U.S. Economy Last Year PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2011 New state-by-state foreign student and study abroad data now available from NAFSA WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Foreign students and their families spent more than $20 billion in the United States during the 2010 – 2011 academic year, according to a new NAFSA report released today. California, New York, and Texas welcomed the largest numbers of foreign students, and those states and others across the country each saw a substantial benefit from spending by these students and their families on living expenses, tuition, and fees. * See NAFSA's new foreign-student spending data by state, congressional district, and top receiving institutions of higher education (www.nafsa.org/eis)....

Top 10 Universities in the World 1. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 2. Harvard University (United States) 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) 4. Yale University (United States) 5. University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 6. Imperial College London (United Kingdom) 7. UCL (University College London) (United Kingdom) 8. University of Chicago (United States) 9. University of Pennsylvania (United States) 10. Columbia University (United States) World's Best Universities Rankings 2011 * For the full list of rankings, visit www.usnews.com/worldsbest Top Universities in Asia Top Universities in Latin America Featured U.S. News Releases World Universities Rankings See how U.S. colleges stack up against global competitors in the 2011 rankings. ...

President Jonathan Embraces Mutual Capitalism and Partnership, So Should Our Public leaders and Institutions President Jonathan plans to use more than ‘ government-help-only’, to pursue various avenues for development in education, healthcare, road care, electricity and other areas in order to build a very strong national enterprise and economic foundation for our emerging democracy. Recently, the President showed everyone that in any area of national development, as in university development a quicker realization of a project is more of a possibility with the aid of the government and private sponsorship. He successfully urged individuals and corporate entities to support the new federal university in Otuoke, in the State of Bayelsa, an idea that is beneath what could be called mutual or communal capitalism. It is true that some existing public institutions like universities are in a state of deteriorating condition, partly because a typical Nigerian university is stubbo...

President Jonathan, the New Style of Academic Leadership by Aluko, Okogbaa and Farouk needs Bold, Full and Open Autonomy to control change. Sir, the soon to come Academic Leadership approach to the new federal universities will enormously gain from an Executive order-type autonomy in order for it to fully evidence excellent practices, sustained outcomes and well defined changes in university educational system in Nigeria. Sir, as an academic yourself, you have seen firsthand the lamentable nature of Nigerian higher institutions in spite of millions of money that have been poured into the system. Sir, you will agree that in the last fifteen years the existing academic leadership in many of these higher institutions have had very little impact on the overall health of our universities, and this is partly because of some members of the leadership being all about self-interest rather focusing on matters of national interest. Mr. President, as you rightly know, every great development sta...