The UK HE International Unit (IU) today announced that over 2,700 Brazilian undergraduate students will be coming to the UK in September 2014 under the Brazilian government's Science without Borders (SwB) programme.  This takes the total number of students who have come to the UK since the programme launched, including PhDs and post-docs, to over 8,500. The numbers have grown significantly from 519 students placed in the first cohort (September 2012), demonstrating the increasing popularity of the UK as a destination.  The SwB programme is managed by the UK Higher Education Unit (IU) on behalf of Universities UK (UUK). See more...

By Sam Griffin. THE number of Irish students partaking in the Erasmus programme has doubled in the past seven years as a new phase of the overseas study and traineeship scheme is rolled out.
The programme, which operates in 33 European countries including Ireland, offers third-level students the chance to study or work abroad for a period of up to 12 months either during or just after they complete their degree. More...

By Penny McLintock. Young people will be forced to earn, learn or "work for the dole" under changes the Government says will prevent Australians becoming reliant upon welfare. Young people will be forced to earn, learn or "work for the dole" under changes the Government says will prevent Australians becoming reliant upon welfare.
From January, new jobseekers under 30 will have to wait up to six months before receiving unemployment benefits, and will then have to participate in Work for the Dole. They will have to do at least 25 hours per week of Work for the Dole activities in order to receive payments for six months. More...

By Chingiz Toloev. As graduates prep for the crucial tests, those from the country’s largest minority wonder if there is any point in taking them.
Nasiba, a 17-year-old Uzbek student at a secondary school in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, wanted to study law after graduation this spring. Now it looks as though she will not attend college at all, thanks to a government decision preventing her and several thousand other ethnic Uzbeks from taking national university entrance exams in their mother tongue. Until this year members of Kyrgyzstan’s largest minority, the Uzbeks, could take the exams in Kyrgyz, Russian, or Uzbek. But in September the government announced that this year’s exams on 20-21 May would be given only in Kyrgyz and Russian. More...

By Margaret Gardner. The introduction of the demand-driven system for undergraduate places in 2012 saw the differences between the government regulated world of public universities and the market-driven world of international and postgraduate education diminish. With the federal budget that difference has almost disappeared. In the demand-driven system, domestic students wanting to attend university can choose which university and which program they wish to take, subject to meeting the entry criteria. The government will now extend this open access to diploma and associate degree places. Access to government funding for these undergraduate and sub-degree places will be extended to non-university higher education providers both public and private. As a result, Australia’s public universities will now operate in what can be described as a quasi-market, rather than as public universities funded by federal government. More...

By Sarah Newcomb. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) recently announced plans to nix their Bachelor of Education program in favour of expanded Master of Teaching and Master of Arts in Child Study and Education degrees.
Beginning in 2015, incoming education students will be able to “undertake advanced study in the educational sciences and at the same time meet the requirements for licensure to teach in Ontario”, essentially graduating from OISE with both a teaching and a master’s degree. More...

By Melissa Jarman. Long before acceptance letters arrive, students are faced with the first of many decisions: go away for school, or stay local and live at home. In fact, our 2013 Student Poll showed that nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of postsecondary students planned to live away from home in the coming year. Students living away from home expected to take on more debt – $31,000 v. the $22,000 reported by students who intended to live at home. With rising student debt the subject of so much conversation and debate in Canada, it is interesting to see that so many students (and their parents) still plan to take on this additional expense when a viable, comparable education alternative to live and study at home may exist. More...

Avant de partir, il vous faut d’abord effectuer en France différentes formalités relatives à :

• votre passeport,
• votre permis de travail,
• vos moyens de transport,
• votre santé,
• mais également vérifier les conditions de sécurité dans votre pays de destination.

Ensuite, il vous faudra prévoir :

• votre logement,
• vos moyens de transport (véhicule et permis de conduire)
• votre argent,
• votre courrier,
• vos assurances,
• votre protection sociale,
• vos impôts,
• éventuellement votre scolarité,
• les formalités douanières
• les attestations de démarches administratives.

Enfin, il est recommandé de vous documenter sur le pays d’accueil pour en connaître les conditions de vie, de consulter les guides d’information, de vous constituer un carnet d’adresses utiles, et surtout de penser à votre inscription auprès du consulat français dans le pays d’accueil compétent sur place, si vous êtes en situation d’expatriation. Voir l'article...