Representing the opinions  of over  43 000 potential international students,  a new survey conducted by Hobsons for the fourth year in a row, examines the motivations of international students, and use of social media tools, in relation to their choice of studying abroad. Characteristics of an increasingly globally mobile student body have undergone significant changes and universities face new challenges on multiple fronts. More...

The European Commission has adopted a new Skills Agenda for Europe, as a further policy support measure for boosting Europe’s employability, competitiveness and growth, in line with the Europe 2020 strategy. The skills landscape in Europe continues to display mismatches between skills and labour market demands, high numbers of people with low literacy and numeracy skills, even more without adequate digital skills and a job market with seemingly ever increasing demands. More...

The seminar Making a difference - Partnerships in Education, held in Brussels 10 June, provided a platform for sharing achievements, learning outcomes and transferring best practices of the EEA and Norway Grants-Scholarships, emerging in the programme over the last years. The EEA and Norway Grants aim to reduce social and economic disparities in Europe and to strengthen bilateral relations between the donor and beneficiary countries, where the Scholarship programme seeks to remove obstacles to educational mobility, support students to acquire new skills and strengthen future employability. More...

The study departs from the realisation that the Netherlands is an increasingly attractive destination for internationally-mobile students, and explores the ways in which this ‘attractiveness’ can be further extended, by convincing a larger number of international graduates to consider entering the Dutch labour market. This is particularly relevant as the economic impact of international students on the host country, including in the Netherlands, had already been calculated several years ago as being largely positive. More...

The past decades have witnessed an enormous expansion of programmes to support the international mobility of students, the most popular example being ERASMUS. Lots of money has been invested to this end. Both policy-makers and scientists have therefore become increasingly curious to know whether international student mobility (ISM) pays off for the mobile students. More...

The UK's decision to abandon Europe, which is what leaving the European Union amounts to, has come as a shock - not least in the UK where many people who voted 'out' never expected to win. In effect this was a protest vote against immigration, tinged with nationalism and even racism, and austerity, a long delayed but inevitable reaction against the inequalities generated by neoliberal capitalism. The details of the UK's relationship with the EU as a member state were not particularly important in what was a bad-tempered and nasty referendum campaign. In effect the EU became a whipping boy for larger discontents. More...

By Rachael Merola. It is summer Forum week on the EAIE blog and we will be covering the role of data in international education from different angles and perspectives. We will discover how data can be and are used, as well as collected, by practitioners. More...

By Ashley Marie Sansotta. This week on the EAIE blog, we will be covering the summer issue of Forum magazine. This whole issue is dedicated to data in international education. We look at how it can be and is used, as well as collected by practitioners. More...

By Aaron Porter. This entire week on the EAIE blog, we will be covering the summer issue of Forum magazine. This whole issue is dedicated to data in international education. We look at how data can be and are used, as well as collected by practitioners. More...