By Beckie Smith. The Institute of International Education has created an Emergency Student Fund to support students from Syria and Yemen in need of urgent financial aid. More...
Australia: international education exports hit record $19.65bn
By Beckie Smith. Revenue from international students in Australian education institutions grew by more than A$2bn in 2015, making international education Australia’s third largest export, contributing $19.65bn to the country, preliminary figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown. More...
Universities Scotland: cost of PSW loss £250m
By Beckie Smith. The loss of the UK’s two year post-study work visa has cost the Scottish economy over £250m since the programme ended in 2012, Universities Scotland has said. Scotland’s First Minister has also publicly called for the reinstatement of the Tier 1 visa allowing students to work after graduation for the first time. More...
EU: Half of secondary students learned two foreign languages
By Beckie Smith. Just over half of all secondary school pupils in the EU studied two or more foreign languages in 2014, new statistics from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, have shown. More...
LSBF loses Tier 4 licence; hundreds of student visas curtailed
By Beckie Smith. The London School of Business and Finance has had its Tier 4 licence to recruit non-EU students revoked, leading to hundreds of students being told they must leave the UK by the end of next month. More...
UniQuest raises £650,000 to fund further expansion
OBHE report favours ‘nimble’ university centres over IBCs in China
By Sara Custer. China may no longer be a land as fertile for establishing international branch campuses as it once was according to a report released by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. More...
NZ: US study abroad, private providers drive growth in visa approvals
By Natalie Marsh. International student visa approval rates in New Zealand continue to rise, with the US driving much of the growth among HE providers while enrolments at private training institutions continue to flourish. More...
Study Group to end partnership with UMS
By Natalie Marsh. Study Group’s partnership with the University of Maine System, a network of public universities in Maine in the US, will end in July, after just three years. More...
StudyPortals grows ETP data to top 1,000 unis
By Natalie Marsh. International study choice platform, StudyPortals, has launched a tool that allows students to compare English taught programmes around the world offered by the top 1,000 universities, it has announced. More...