By Viggo Stacey. The number of international students studying at Chinese institutions reached more than 492,000 in 2018, the Study in China’s deputy director confirmed at a recent event in Beijing. However, the figures mark only a slight increase on 2017, when 489,200 visiting students were recorded. More...
ILSC & Edvisor fund program for Indian women
By Viggo Stacey. ILSC Education Group has teamed up with online booking platform Edvisor to launch a new Corporate Social Responsibility partnership aimed at funding scholarships for disadvantaged women in India. More...
Singapore bets on medical training at home
By Viggo Stacey. The Singapore Medical Council has reduced its list of approved overseas medical schools from 160 to 103. The move will ensure the quality of overseas-trained doctors in the country remains high, it says. More...
Housing provider Oxfordcaps expands to India
By Viggo Stacey. Singapore-based accommodation provider Oxfordcaps has raised $8.1m in Series A financing to fund its expanded offer in India. More...
Keeping Perspective on China
Many years of graduate education have trained me to rely on demonstrable evidence before reaching a conclusion -- evidence confirmed often enough from a sufficient number of reliable sources to ratify a belief. More...
Teaching Research in the First-Year Writing Classroom in the U.S.
I’ll start with a confession: I have never taken a writing class in my entire life. This is because writing courses are not part of the curriculum in India. More...
Masked Men Attack Students, Professors at Indian University
By Elizabeth Redden. Dozens of masked men armed with sticks and iron rods attacked students and professors at India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday, injuring more than 30 people, The Washington Post reported. More...
Japan: agents competing with universities for outbound mobility – JAOS
By Viggo Stacey. Japanese education consultants are increasingly competing with universities to send language students abroad, largely due to government campaigns introduced in the past decade, the Japan Association of Overseas Studies has found. More...
New Australian Homestay Network campaign to offer housing springboard
By Will Nott. Following a report that highlighted how international students are being exploited in Australia’s housing market, a new initiative to help students who are struggling to adapt to life in the country has been launched by the Australian Homestay Network. More...