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12 mai 2015

INTO survey shows agents bullish, jump in secondary courses

By Sara Custer. Education partnering organisation INTO’s annual agent survey, seen exclusively by The PIE News, reveals that agencies in key markets including China and India are bullish about future outbound numbers. More...

12 mai 2015

First MOOC in Kurdish launched in Erbil, Iraq

By Sara Custer. The first MOOC delivered in Kurdish has been launched to boost skills training and strengthen the local economy in northern Iraq.
Free online courses covering food safety, tourism studies, human resource management and customer service on the online platform Alison, have been translated into Kurdish and Arabic. More...

12 mai 2015

Singapore auctions land for foreign schools

By Sara Custer. Foreign school providers keen to establish themselves in Singapore’s booming international school market have a rare chance to bid for land through the Economic Development Board. More...

12 mai 2015

Separate compliance and profit, NSW universities warned

By Beckie Smith. Financial pressure to recruit and retain fee-paying international students can lead to universities compromising their academic integrity and turning a “blind eye” to problems, according to a report into corruption in higher education in New South Wales. More...

12 mai 2015

24/7 digital student support service launched

By Beckie Smith. In an industry first, guard.me, one of the international education sector’s biggest insurance providers, has partnered with Canada-based Morneau Shepell to launch a 24/7 international student counselling and support service. More...

12 mai 2015

Dubai: KHDA forms VET quality assurance body

By Beckie Smith. Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority has established a new awarding body to regulate technical and vocational education as the government aims to fill growing skills gaps. More...

12 mai 2015

Chinese enrolments soar at UK independent schools

By Beckie Smith. The number of K-12 students coming to Britain from mainland China has soared in the last year, with the Independent Schools Council census showing 2,893 new enrolments in 2014/15 – 800 more than last year. This is the first time China has overtaken Hong Kong as the top source country for ISC’s members, some 1,200 independent K-12 schools across Britain. More...

12 mai 2015

TeamUp initiative to boost US-Japan mobility

By Beckie Smith. A year-long initiative to boost undergraduate mobility between Japan and the US is underway in a renewed effort to double the number of students moving between the two countries by 2020. More...

12 mai 2015

Outbound Indian student growth overtakes Chinese for the first time

By Beckie Smith. Outbound Indian student numbers have bounced back from four years of decline with a year of rapid growth to break the 300,000 mark in 2014, an in-depth report on the sector has shown. More...

12 mai 2015

Turkey mandates students study at top-500 HEI or sit domestic entrance exam

By Beckie Smith. Turkish students who study abroad must do so at a top-500 ranked university or take the domestic higher education entrance exam in order for their qualifications to be recognised by the government, under new regulations put in place by the Higher Education Council of Turkey (which goes by the Turkish abbreviation YOK). More...

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