By Amy Baker. A new global priority to embed academia and industry links to foster better outcomes in research and knowledge agendas, was a universal agreement across senior stakeholders attending the British Council’s most recent Global Education Dialogue in Canberra. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Global student recruitment firm, SI-UK, is planning to further expand its reach around the world by taking its UK university fair into Europe, opening a new office in Turkey and Nigeria and building links in the UK with a federation of boarding schools via ASIS. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Dubai’s first Chinese international school will open in around two years’ time, it has been announced, as new government statistics show the Emirate’s private schools sector continues to boom. Eleven new private schools have opened in Dubai this year and last year and annual fee revenue has reached 5.35bn AED (US$252m). More...
By Natalie Marsh. French business school, SKEMA, has announced it is opening its first campus in Latin America near Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil. More...
By Beckie Smith. Thailand’s Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha, highlighted the importance of English language education in a nationally televised address this month as a country-wide evaluation of English teachers gets underway. Meanwhile, global pathway and ELT provider Kaplan International has opened its first head office in Thailand. More...
By Beckie Smith. A new peak body that will provide support to K-12 schools active in New Zealand’s international sector launched this month and is looking for more businesses to join its 15 founding members. The association will help further develop internationalisation within New Zealand schools, many of which already work significantly with the international market. More...
By Beckie Smith. Mexico and the UK have signed a mutual qualifications recognition agreement which stakeholders say will increase bilateral student mobility, enabling up to 170,000 students to use their qualifications in either country for work or study. More...
By Beckie Smith. This week Study Group has announced three new HE ventures in the UK and US on the back of its 2014 full year report showing 4% growth in EBITDA. The partnerships with the University of Law, Coventry University London Campus and Merrimack College will help to fuel further growth in the higher education division and offset decline in its ELT entity Embassy English. More...
By Beckie Smith. Students who are globally mobile have a lower unemployment rate and end up earning more as graduates than their non-mobile counterparts in most subject areas, a new report from the UK Higher Education International Unit has found. More...
By Beckie Smith. Homeland Security Investigations special agents have arrested three Los Angeles residents who allegedly ran a ‘pay-to-stay’ scheme across a network of four schools that enabled hundreds of foreign nationals to remain in the US without actually attending class. More...
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