Recently The New York Times noted that higher education in the United States increasingly is leaving behind working families, as institutions aim for elite status. Many campuses now have more students from families who earn $635,000 per year or more (the top 1 percent) than they do from families who earn $65,000 per year or less. More...
ITT Tech students score victory in bankruptcy settlement
As creditors of ITT Educational Services fight over the remaining assets of the defunct for-profit college operator, one group has secured a significant victory in the bankruptcy proceedings: former students. More...
Canada: group of int’l postgrads denied PSW
By Claudia Civinini. A group of international graduates in Canada has been denied post-study work permits after completing a postgraduate program at St Clair College, Ontario. More...
CBIE highlights “unprecedented” student numbers
By Claudia Civinini. Looking over 2017 data, CBIE reflected on the success of the international education industry in Canada with a recently released research brief. More...
San Mateo Colleges register int’l growth
By Claudia Civinini. The international student presence on San Mateo Colleges’ three campuses went from about 80 in 2012 to 1,500 in the academic year 2017-2018. More...
Obama launches Global Girls Alliance
By Claudia Civinini. The Obama Foundation has announced the launch of the Global Girls Alliance, a program focussed on supporting access to education for adolescent girls worldwide. More...
U of Wisconsin bags $2.4m intled federal grants
By Claudia Civinini. A total of $2.4m in grants was awarded by the US Department of Education to two centres of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to promote international education and languages programs. More...
Canada: remove “barriers” to PSW, says CASA
By Claudia Civinini. The Canadian Alliance of Students Associations presented recommendations to improve the immigration system for international students to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration last week. More...
New H-1B system to favour US ‘higher’ degree holders
By Claudia Civinini. Change is afoot in the US, as the Department of Homeland Security has proposed to amend the current H-1B visa application system, and is gathering comment from “interested parties” until January 2 2019. More...