Echoes of the cold war as Russia boosts number of foreign students

Education

2019-12-19 / www.ft.com

Moscow aims to double university intake from overseas to boost skills and build ties.

334,000 foreign students are enrolled in Russian universities, according to government figures, a cohort that has more than doubled since 2010 as part of a push ...

To make the world richer, let people move

migration

2019-11-14 / www.economist.com

Under a MAKESHIFT sunshade by a half-dry riverbed on the Indonesian island of Java, Eddie Sebastian is taking a lunch-break. It is hot and he is tired. He makes $2 a day collecting stones, breaking them with a hammer and ...

Young Palestinians are leaving Gaza in droves

Migration

2019-08-01 / www.economist.com

YARUB IKHDEH and his friends had been waiting half their lives to get on a bus. The six young men had never left Gaza, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007. They grew up in a territory ...