By Beckie Smith. Herguan University in Silicon Valley has been stripped of its ability to recruit international students by the federal US government. More...
Ireland: new homestay quality scheme forged
By Beckie Smith. A group of education providers in Ireland has organised to provide a sector-response to improving the regulation of high school guardianship placements which it has described as a “cowboy market”. More...
Brazil: CVC opens high street study travel offices
By Beckie Smith. CVC, Latin America’s largest travel agency, is launching a new division dedicated to selling study travel exclusively. CVC Intercâmbio will open student-facing offices to bring its language programmes, youth travel, academic year abroad, junior packages and other related products to the high stree. More...
UK Home Secretary promises “tougher rules for students on lower quality courses”
By Beckie Smith. UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced plans to reduce the number of people coming into the UK to work and study. More...
Russia: future of Project 5-100 uncertain
By Beckie Smith. The future of Russia’s flagship higher education internationalisation initiative, Project 5-100, has been called into question after the new minister for education and science, Olga Vasilyeva, warned there may be changes to the project. More...
Major agency unveils inaugural school awards
By Beckie Smith. Brooklyn School of Languages in the US has been named English school of the year by one of Europe’s biggest education agencies, ESL, while Institut Européen de Français Montpellier in France has taken the title for non-English language schools in the inaugural ESL Language Travel Awards. More...
UK: EU student funding extended through 2017
By Beckie Smith. EU students applying to enrol at an English or Welsh higher or further education institutions in 2017 will have access to student funding for the duration of their course, the universities minister and Student Finance Wales have announced. More...
French HE is in urgent need of a TNE strategy – France Stratégie
By Beckie Smith. French higher education institutions are active overseas but a lack of national and institutional strategies means the country’s transnational education lags behind the UK, US and Australia, a government-sponsored think tank has said. More...
Australia: assistant minister intervenes as SSVF brings visa delays
By Beckie Smith. Australia’s assistant minister for immigration and border protection, Alex Hawke, has been forced to step in to address visa delays that struck the international education sector after the introduction of the Simplified Student Visa Framework in July. More...
NACAC amends code of ethics to improve transparency in agent use
By Beckie Smith. The National Association for College Admission Counseling has once again amended its influential Statement of Principles of Good Practice to provide more guidance on the use of third party education agents. More...