International Education
Economic crisis opens EU borders for study
By PAUL AMES
The EU's commissioner for education, culture and youth, sees the downturn as an opportunity for European schools and universities to promote cross-border education through the expansion of the union's Erasmus program of university exchanges.
Despite downturn, Abu Dhabi gathers intellectual steam
By NAZANIN LANKARANI
Abu Dhabi is maintaining its program of educational development which it started in 2006, intent on making itself a global pole for intellectual talent.
Back to college in hard times
By ALICE PFEIFFER
With recession and unemployment dominating the headlines, universities seem to have become popular places to weather the economic storm.
Art studies rise even as market falls
By CLAUDIA BARBIERI
As the financial crisispunctured the art boom late last year, auction houses reacted swiftly to cut their costs.
MBA becomes a safe haven
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP
Applications are rising strongly across the board at international business schools offering full-time MBA programs, as the economic downturn prompts many 20-somethings to sit out the crisis by furthering their education.
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- Forgotten art of French illustrator George Barbier is rediscovered at Fortuny Museum show
- Chinese fine brush paintings show resilience at auction even as contemporary boom goes flat
- Christie's auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris is called "sale of the century"
- Jewelry by Alexander Calder goes on show in New York
- Forgotten art of French illustrator George Barbier is rediscovered at Fortuny Museum show
- Chinese fine brush paintings show resilience at auction even as contemporary boom goes flat
- Christie's auction of Yves Saint Laurent's art collection in Paris is called "sale of the century"
- Jewelry by Alexander Calder goes on show in New York
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