BRAZIL: Top universities starting to internationalise

Brazil is not a hot spot on the international academic scene. Universities looking for institutional partners, foreign students looking to study abroad and professors searching for posts in other countries rarely consider Brazil as a first choice, writes Andrew Downie for The Chronicle of Higher Education. But circumstances are slowly changing.

Brazil's elite higher-education institutions are beginning to embrace internationalisation after decades of insularity. They are more aggressively pursuing professors and students from other countries and setting up ties with institutions abroad.
Full report on The Chronicle site