By Natalie Marsh. A new report from NAFSA: Association of International Educators on the burgeoning US pathway market, has found that just over half of the higher education institutions who have partnered with pathway providers are not placed on the national rankings. More...
By Natalie Marsh. An All-Parliamentary Party Group for International Students has been formed in the UK, in order to highlight the impact and contribution foreign students make to the country. More...
By Natalie Marsh. More intra-African and South-South cooperation is needed in higher education at both the institutional and government level, ministers from across the continent have said. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Universities have a big role to play in the UN’s HeForShe campaign, aiming to establish gender parity worldwide, leaders said at the British Council’s Going Global conference in South Africa this month. Institutions are making transformative commitments on their own campuses, they said, but women are often not found in the higher placed position of university leadership. More...
By Natalie Marsh. The Best Semester Abroad campaign will pay for 20 international student winners to spend a semester studying in the Australian state. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Syrian refugees in Canada will soon be able to obtain recognition for their academic credentials in a pilot phase of a new initiative from US-based World Education Services to create an alternative credential assessment system. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Europe leads the way in global travel connectivity, with London, Paris and Frankfurt named the world’s top three most connected cities, according to a new global ranking. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Germany and Malaysia have emerged as “top performers” in international higher education, according to new research from the British Council. National quality assurance schemes were found to be lacking in most surveyed countries while most access and sustainability efforts were deemed high performing. More...
Posted by . Today, the OECD publishes Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, the Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills – an international assessment of the proficiency of adults aged 16-65 years in three key information processing skills: literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments. More...
Posted by . Previous posts (Youth Skills day 2015 and Investing in Disadvantage Youth) addressed some of the challenges posed by youth who are not employed or enrolled in education or training programmes (the so-called NEET group). This group has increased in size since the recession: from 13.5 per cent of youth age 15-29 in OECD countries before the recession, to nearly 15 per cent in 2015 (OECD Employment Outlook 2016, forthcoming). Rising NEET populations are one important reflection of the labour market difficulties that recent graduates may face during a recession. More...
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