US Embassy highlights International Education Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week

  • Date: 17-Nov-2020
  • Source: The Daily Tribune - News of Bahrain
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Middle East
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US Embassy highlights International Education Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week

For the past two decades, the US Department of State, alongside the US Department of Education, has celebrated International Education Week (IEW) every November to promote the benefits of international education and exchange programs in more than 100 countries around the world.

This year, on November 16-20, the US Embassy in Manama will continue the tradition with a series of exciting social media spotlights on our education programs and virtual activities highlighting the US-Bahraini educational partnership.

Despite 2020 being an exceptional year due to challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the cooperation enjoyed by the United States and Bahrain on numerous academic categories has been insurmountable.

For those reasons, I am pleased to highlight the robust interest in this year's Fulbright Scholarship Program. I congratulate the distinguished Bahraini applicants who received the scholarship to pursue their post-graduate degrees in the