By Amy Baker. Since setting up International Volunteer HQ almost 10 years ago, Daniel Radcliffe has grown the company to place around 15,000 volunteers a year in 36 countries. He speaks about the popularity of volunteer travel among students and how he’s trying to change the mindset of the global sector. More...
By Amy Baker. The owner of UK study travel agency, Apple Languages, has heralded the company’s success following the collapse of the previous incarnation of Apple Languages as a testament to strong industry support and collegiality, especially among IALC member schools. More...
By Anton Crace. Education New Zealand has launched a new online learning tool for international education professionals to help them recruit and support students. More...
By Anton Crace. Now entering its seventh year, the Council of International Students Australia is beginning to hit its stride as it develops a better understanding of the issues facing students and how best to tackle them. National president Nina Khairina spoke to The PIE about the international student advocacy group’s key goals for the next 12 months as well as how the organisation has grown since its inception. More...
By Anton Crace. Figures released exclusively to The PIE News reveal the conversion rate of working holidaymakers to international student visa holders in Australia after they had returned home. More...
By Anton Crace. Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberal-National Coalition has formed a government in Australia and announced a new international education minister. More...
By Anton Crace. Delegates at the Council of International Students Australia‘s National Conference have called on all education stakeholders, including institutions, industry leaders and domestic students, to actively engage with international students to address the key issues facing Australia’s student population. More...
By Kelsey Munro. At Wollongong University's booming Dubai campus, thousands of students from scores of countries are studying – in English – for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in business, finance, IT, engineering and media. Operating as an accredited university for just 16 years, UOWD is billed as one of the United Arab Emirates' "oldest and most prestigious universities" – a small sign of the pace of change in the area of transnational education – and of the market value of an Australian degree. Read more...
By Gordon McKenzie. The Higher Education and Research Bill passed its Second Reading in the House of Commons, 19th July, by 294 votes to 258. The vote was preceded by five and a half hours of debate. Concerns about Brexit infused many of the speeches from Opposition members, with a number arguing that the uncertainty caused by Brexit should lead to the Bill being and revised. GuildHE has rejected this argument. Read more...
The University of Ibadan in Nigeria is “emblematic of the crisis of the Nigerian state”, argues the institution’s vice-chancellor, Abel Idowu Olayinka, in this video interview.
The University of Ibadan opened in 1948 as a small African outpost of London University, with just 104 students. Over the past 70 years, it has grown exponentially and now has a student body of 26,000. Read more...
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