By Viggo Stacey. Denmark should develop an outbound mobility strategy to ensure that Danish students do not lag behind their European counterparts in access to education overseas, stakeholders and politicians have said. More...
StudyLingua acquires DIALOG-Sprachreisen
By Viggo Stacey. Switzerland-based StudyLingua, with its brand Pro Linguis, has acquired German language travel agency DIALOG-Sprachreisen International, as the company seeks to strengthen its foothold in Germany. More...
14 universities meet for HUC Consortium
By Viggo Stacey. Health reform took centre stage as 14 universities across the Americas and the Caribbean met for the second Hemispheric University Consortium meeting in October. More...
UK independent school launches in Japan
By Viggo Stacey. UK independent school Rugby School has announced it will open a sister school in Japan in 2022, following the success of its first overseas school in Thailand. More...
Facility created to ensure SDG4 will be met
By Viggo Stacey. A newly-establishment International Finance Facility for Education will seek to mobilise $2 billion by 2020 to ensure the UN’s fourth Sustainable Development Goal of inclusive and equitable education and promoting of lifelong learning opportunities is met. More...
EF Academy welcomed to California
By Viggo Stacey. Global international education juggernaut EF Education First has launched an international high school in the US at a ceremony in Pasadena, California, attended by local leaders and city officials. More...
Finances are not main motivator for internationalisation across European HEIs – EAIE
By Viggo Stacey. Financial resources are vital for higher education institutions to operate, but many HE professionals working in internationalisation indicate that it is not a “deep concern” or the “main motivation” for work, a report focusing on nine European countries has found. More...
Zambia to launch Qualifications Passport
By Viggo Stacey. A pre-pilot UNESCO Refugee Qualifications Passport aiming to help displaced people with missing qualification documents will be launched in Zambia this month, before the project is rolled out at a greater scale globally. More...
Russia to simplify naturalisation for int’l grads
By Viggo Stacey. The Russian government has announced a bill that seeks to make it easier for international graduates from the country’s universities to obtain citizenship, with changes coming in as early as December 2020. However, only graduates of public, or “state”, educational or scientific institutions will be eligible. More...
Demand for refugee HE remains high
By Viggo Stacey. The Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) assisted almost 7,000 individuals in 2018, with more than half originally from three countries: Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan. However, limited resources mean applicants are still missing out. More...