By Beckie Smith. Canada’s visa woes continue as multiple internal government reviews have revealed delays and errors in visa processing, seeing processing times increase by a third for study permits and double for permanent residence permits. More....27 juin 2015
Canada: internal reviews uncover delays in visa processing
By Beckie Smith. Canada’s visa woes continue as multiple internal government reviews have revealed delays and errors in visa processing, seeing processing times increase by a third for study permits and double for permanent residence permits. More....Aus: council to finalise int’l education strategy
By Beckie Smith. The Australian government has announced the membership of a new council to oversee the finalisation and implementation of a national strategy for international education. More....Lack of coordination hampers international graduate recruitment
By Beckie Smith. Better liaison between institutions, the public sector and business is required to ensure international graduates get the best start on the career ladder. More...
Malta: MoE calls for more foreign universities amid concerns from sector
By Beckie Smith. Malta is aiming to attract more foreign universities to the island, its Education Minister has said, amid concern about new legislation changing the requirements institutions must fulfill to become a university. More...
FutureLearn breaks MOOC record, opens up
By Beckie Smith. UK-based MOOC platform FutureLearn has broken the record for the biggest single run of an online course, with more than 430,000 students currently enrolled on its IELTS preparation course. The platform has also opened up its partnership policy to accommodate more specialised institutions. More...
UK HE: More to be done forging social bonds
By Beckie Smith. There is an inverse correlation between the proportion of international students and the quality of student experience at UK universities, researchers at the University of Warwick have found. A UKCISA-based report calls for greater focus on social aspects of internationalisation among universities and academic league tables. More...
Latin America: ELT supply marred by low teaching quality, access
By Sara Custer. The demand for ELT across Latin America is ripe as governments view the language as a tool to access the global economy, employers prioritise it among skills and societies begin to see it leads to cultural openness. More...
Australia levels visa playing field with simpler system
By Sara Custer. Australia’s government has announced a new student visa framework that will replace Streamlined Visa Processing and the current Assessment Level Framework in a bid to level the playing field across sectors and reduce red tape. More...
Global standard needed for internships, urge stakeholders
By Sara Custer. The growing demand for global internships has spurred stakeholders to search for a universal definition of an internship in order to gain support globally and facilitate the expansion of internship provision into non-traditional markets. More...
Universum 2015 : le Top 50 des entreprises qui font rêver les étudiants
Par Nejma Brahim. Pas moins de 240 000 étudiants ont voté. Universum, groupe suédois spécialisé dans le conseil en « marque employeur », vient de publier les résultats de son enquête annuelle sur les entreprises les plus attractives du monde. En avril dernier, les étudiants français avaient déjà donné leur avis. Suite...
