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ELS Educational Services has established a scholarship program to provide English language training to scholars supported by the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund

The Washington Diplomat profiles Paul Ndebele, a noted African scholar and bioethicist. "Ndebele, assistant director for research ethics at the University of Botswana, was recently tapped to be a bioethicist contractor by the Henry Jackson Foundation in Bethesda, Md. With research sponsors at the National Institutes of Health and the European Commission, he's a well-connected, peripatetic activist and academic."

Allan Goodman, President and CEO of the Institute of International Education was recently interviewed on camera by South-South News, a digital media platform that publishes news on major international efforts in sustainable economic and social development to audiences around the world with a goal of advancing the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals through the sharing of best practices. The interview highlights the work of IIE’s SRF Iraq Scholar Rescue Project, which to date has assisted over 270 scholars from Iraq. The interview in full can be viewed on the South-South News website by clicking here.

The Institute of International Education is campaigning to raise $5 million to aid Syrian students and academics.

The Scholar Rescue Fund’s philosophy is to provide short-term fellowships to threatened scholars so they may return to their home countries to help rebuild universities and societies when conditions improve.

Responding to the worsening situation in Syria, Institute of International Education (IIE) President and CEO Allan Goodman recently announced that a global consortium of higher education institutions and organisations had pledged an additional US$1.3 million in emergency support for threatened Syrian scholars and students.