IIE Blog Posts: An Education Crisis in Syria & Reflections on the WISE Summit in Doha

An Education Crisis in Syria

In the most recent post on IIE's Opening Minds blog, Daniela Kaisth, Vice President for Strategic Development, writes that "IIE has convened more than 33 universities and other organizations to provide over $1.3 million in scholarships for Syrian students and host Syrian scholars through the IIE Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis. In September at the Clinton Global Initiative, IIE joined with Jusoor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), and EducationUSA-Syria to mobilize emergency support for threatened Syrian students and scholars."

To read the full blog, please visit: www.iie.org/Blog/2012/November/Syria-ESF.

Education and the Workforce: Matching Skills and Needs: Reflections on the 2012 World Innovation Summit in Doha

The annual World Innovation Summit on Education -- known as WISE -- is a unique, multi-sectoral education conference. It brings together stakeholders from primary, secondary, and higher education, government, corporations and technology companies, NGOs, and – critically – students. In his most recent blog entry, Daniel Obst, IIE’s Deputy Vice President for International Partnerships, writes that "one of the key themes that came up over and over again was the need to better align resources and coordinate financing for education." Read about his takeaways from the WISE Summit, as they relate to education and the workforce, one of the core higher education topics at the conference.

To read the full blog, please visit: www.iie.org/Blog/2012/November/WISE-Doha.