By Viggo Stacey. The UK government needs to work with the country’s higher education sector in order to ensure the immigration system is best prepared to grow its international education offering, according to the results of the seventh QS International Student Survey. More...
Humboldt to promote German boarding options
By Viggo Stacey. German language provider Humboldt-Institut has launched a new website to provide information about Germany’s boarding schools to prospective students, parents and education agents. More...
UK’s Augar review “silent” on int’l student issues
By Viggo Stacey. The recent Augar review into post-18 education in England was largely touted as a way to widen access to higher education and further education for the country’s domestic students. However, it was met with mixed reactions from the country’s education sector. More...
EC sells HE division to Study Group
By Viggo Stacey. English language provider EC has sold its higher education arm to Study Group for an undisclosed sum, in a strategic move which EC says will mean it can focus exclusively on its “core strength” – its full immersion English language provision. More...
GoAbroad reveals Innovation Awards winners
By Viggo Stacey. Innovative new programs focusing on study, volunteering and teaching joined a healthcare project in Fiji and a social media campaign promoting study abroad in claiming victory in GoAbroad’s Innovation Awards 2019. More...
ILSC & Edvisor fund program for Indian women
By Viggo Stacey. ILSC Education Group has teamed up with online booking platform Edvisor to launch a new Corporate Social Responsibility partnership aimed at funding scholarships for disadvantaged women in India. More...
Welsh gov’t to boost short-term outbound
By Viggo Stacey. The Welsh Government has launched an initiative to encourage Welsh undergraduate students at universities in Wales to complete short-duration study, work or volunteering opportunities around the world. More...
Uni of Liverpool & KOL partner for online learning
By Viggo Stacey. The University of Liverpool has announced that Kaplan Open Learning has been selected as its partner to create and deliver postgraduate taught programs to a global student audience through online learning. The announcement was made at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Berlin. More...
US continues MENA virtual exchange
By Viggo Stacey. US virtual exchange facilitator the Stevens Initiative has granted international nonprofit organisation and virtual exchange provider Soliya an addition round of funding, which it says will connect students in the US, Middle East, and North Africa. More...
HEIs a “marvellous basis” to build from to overcome global problems
By Viggo Stacey. Global issues – climate change, biodiversity, food security – know no borders: it is time that international higher education, research and innovation realises its duty to address them, delegates heard during Going Global in Berlin. More...