We talked about Two Million Minutes in a previous post, and here is more – an interview by CNBC to comparatively look at the State of Education in the USA: State of Education – A look at the state of education in America, with CNBC’s Erin Burnett.

As the 2008 NAFSA conference on international education opens, Ambassador John Bruton, Head of the European Commission Delegation to the United States, issued a statement encouraging American students to study in Europe through the Erasmus Mundus program.

Launched in 2004, Erasmus Mundus was inspired by the EU s highly successful Erasmus Program, which supports cooperation and mobility between European higher education institutions. The program provides EU-funded scholarships for non-EU nationals participating in Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses, as well as scholarships for EU nationals studying at partner universities throughout the world. In July 2007, the European Commission adopted a proposal to launch the next generation of Erasmus Mundus, which will run from 2009 to 2013.

Pictures are from various sources, in remembrance of the victims of the devastating earthquake on May 12th, 2008 at Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China.