By Beckie Smith. The District of Columbia Public Schools System has been commended by IIE for its groundbreaking initiative to offer fully funded study abroad for all of its 8th and 11th grade students. More...

By Beckie Smith. In light of widespread anxiety over the delays recent on-campus unrest and university closures in South Africa could cause to international students’ graduation dates, the government has granted a three-month extension to all undergraduate and postgraduate students whose visas are due to expire this year. More...

By Beckie Smith. As international educators are digesting the news of Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US presidential election, so too are international students around the world. More...

By Beckie Smith. The number of international branch campuses operating worldwide hit 249 in 2015 after more than a decade of steady growth, research from the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education has shown. More...

By Beckie Smith. The president and CEO of one of the world’s largest non-profit international education organisations, IIE, has called on President-elect Donald Trump to give all college students a free passport to boost study abroad and intercultural competency. More...

By Beckie Smith. Education agents around the world are preparing to redouble their marketing efforts to encourage international students to study in the US, predicting a volatile landscape in the coming months. More...

By Beckie Smith. The number of international students in Canada rose by 8% in 2014/15, top line figures from the Canadian Bureau of International Education’s latest state of the market report show. However, the figures indicate that progress has been dented by challenges in key source markets and slowing growth overall. More...

By Beckie Smith. One of Australia’s largest private training colleges, the Australian Institute of Professional Education, has gone into liquidation shortly after the government revealed plans to scrap a troubled VET student loan scheme. More...

By Beckie Smith. Buy-in from top-level management leading the charge to increase study abroad will be crucial if the US is going to meet its goal of doubling its outbound students by 2020 – and to broaden the diversity of the cohort going overseas. More...

By Beckie Smith. Pathway programmes that prepare international students for degree-level study in the US must incorporate for-credit work and offer guaranteed entry to a degree, according to final guidance issued by the government branch responsible for overseeing international student visas and study programmes. More...