By Beckie Smith. British Columbia’s government has launched an online “one-stop shop” with information and resources for prospective international high school students on how to study in the province, and how to make the most of their experience when they get there. More...
EduCo announces first Irish pathway partnerships
By Beckie Smith. EduCo International Group, a global postsecondary education provider that operates pathways and managed campuses in Australia, the US and Canada, has announced its first pathway partnerships in Ireland. More...
UK HE stakeholders blame Brexit confusion for drop in EU applications
By Beckie Smith. Education stakeholders have pointed to a lack of clarification over how Brexit will impact EU students as the likely reason for a 7% drop in the number of applications to study at UK universities in 2017 from would-be undergraduates in the EU. More...
Sterling Partners invests in prep school startup
By Beckie Smith. US-based Sterling Partners has invested in Amerigo Education, a startup that partners with high schools in the US to support their international students, while preparing them to apply to study at the country’s top universities. More...
Laureate Education IPO to raise $490m
By Beckie Smith. Laureate Education’s CEO rang the Nasdaq’s opening bell this morning to celebrate the launch of the company’s initial public offering. The world’s largest network of degree-granting higher education institutions has become the world’s first public benefit corporation to list on a stock exchange, ten years after it was taken private and more than a year after it first filed for the IPO. More...
Aus: students lose up to A$1m to fraudulent agency
By Beckie Smith. Australia’s Overseas Student Ombudsman has issued an advisory to prospective international students to use the services of only education agencies which are endorsed by education providers, after it emerged that a Brisbane-based agency may have scammed students out of up to A$1m. More...
KGIC placed into receivership, headed for sale after CIBT buys debt
By Beckie Smith. A financial entity set up by CIBT Education Group in Canada has bought and demanded full repayment of CAN$12.3m of debt owed by the troubled education provider KGIC, triggering a sequence of events that is likely to lead to the sale of KGIC in a matter of weeks. More...
IIE awards applaud minority-serving HEIs
By Beckie Smith. Santa Monica College in California and Virginia Union University are the recipients of IIE‘s first ever award for Internationalizing the Minority-Serving Institution, in this year’s Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. More...
Education leaders call for teaching overhaul at Education World Forum
By Beckie Smith. Leading policymakers and educators have called for an overhaul of traditional teaching models that depend on restrictive teacher-student ratios and rigid assessment methods. More...
Aus: international education exports surge to $21.8bn
By Beckie Smith. Education exports contributed A$21.8bn to the Australian economy in 2016, swelling by 17% compared to the previous year, according to an ABS services credit report. The surge marks the sector’s fourth consecutive year of export growth, off the back of increased student enrolments. More...