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A proposal by the UK government to charge visitors from “high risk” countries a £3,0000 visa bond has stirred reactions from  parents and potential students in the UK’s third largest student market, Nigeria, as well as an outcry from members of the government.
Despite assurances from the UK’s ambassador to Nigeria Andrew Pocock that the scheme, if introduced, would affect very few people, there is still palpable confusion. Last week, senators said the proposed bond is “selective, discriminatory, obnoxious, vexatious and unprecedented”. More...

By Travis Mitchell. Find out which U.S. schools offer international students the most financial aid and more. U.S. News & World Report released its 2014 Best Colleges rankings earlier this month, which provide insight and data on nearly 1,800 schools.
The rankings and data include several points of particular interest to international students considering a U.S. education, including information on the highest average financial aid awards and available ESL programs. More...

Between 700 and 800 Brazilian nationals are studying at Dutch universities, propelling the South American country into the top five of non-EU student bodies.
A special government programme and word-of-mouth have been crucial in boosting the popularity of Dutch universities, Remon Boef of the higher education body Nuffic, told the Volkskrant. Nuffic has a special office in Brazil. More...

By Wedigo de Vivanco. Einem Blick nach draußen fällt auf, dass sich die deutschen Hochschulen nicht genügend Gedanken machen, zur Mobilität bereite internationale Talente für ihre Hochschulen zu gewinnen. Deutschland wird zum Zielland für die Studierwilligen, die bei der Suche nach einem angelsächsischen Studienplatz leer ausgingen. Mit angelsächsisch mein ich Studienplätze in Ländern mit Muttersprache Englisch, also Großbritannien, die USA, Canada, Australien und Neuseeland. Auch auf die steigende Attraktion anderer Länder wie den Niederlanden, und der Schweiz sei verwiesen.
Eine nähere  Betrachtung der Gründe verweist vor allem auf zwei Ursachen. Einmal ist in Deutschland das englischsprachige Studienangebot sehr gering – insbesondere für ein Bachelorstudium -und zum anderen verhindern die Bewerbungstermine  und die späte Mitteilung über die Zulassung eine Entscheidung für einen Studienplatz in Deutschland. More...

By Catriona Stewart. GLASGOW Caledonian University (GCU) is to become the first British university to open a campus in New York. The city centre university will launch its first American outpost on Thursday.
GCU New York (GCUNY) will offer executive training programmes and masterclasses in a range of subjects, from fashion business to TV drama writing.
It will also give Glasgow-based students the opportunity to study in the Big Apple and allow US exchange students to come to Scotland and London.
Principal and Vice Chancellor of GCU, Professor Pamela Gillies, said: "Opening a base in New York is a landmark opportunity for GCU. More...

By Daniel Hurst, Josephine Tovey. The Abbott government plans a drastic overhaul of the higher education system, including axing the compulsory fee collected by universities to support student services and scrapping Labor's targets to lift participation by disadvantaged students.
    The removal of the equity targets would disproportionately affect regional universities
Education Minister Christopher Pyne has also opened the door to re-introducing caps on university places, warning any loss of quality would ''poison'' the sector's international reputation. Read more...

By Jan Gothard. Now it’s in government, the Coalition says one of its top priorities is international education. Along with policies to encourage international students to study here, Australian students, too, will be offered the chance to go to Asia as part of the government’s New Colombo Plan.
It’s been termed the “New” Colombo Plan because it takes its name from the original Colombo Plan of the 1950s. Unlike the new policy, the aim of the previous plan, launched in the chill of the Cold War, was not to “engage with Asia” but instead to keep Communist Asia far from Australia’s doorstep. More...

By Douglas Belkin and Caroline Porter. Seeking Better-Trained Workers, AT&T, Google and Other Firms Help Design and Even Fund Web-Based College Classes. Big employers such as AT&T and Google are helping to design and fund the latest round of low-cost online courses, a development that providers say will open the door for students to earn inexpensive credentials with real value in the job market.
New niche certifications being offered by providers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are aimed at satisfying employers' specific needs. Available at a fraction of the cost of a four-year degree, they represent the latest crack in the monopoly traditional universities have in credentialing higher education. More...

By Manash Pratim Gohain. Tried and tested in Delhi — Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia, the concept of Meta University is all set for a pan India replication. Apart from Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, some of the top institutions regarded for academics and research in Chandigarh, Pune, Kolkata and Hyderabad are coming together to form porous clusters where resources will be shared with students as well as staff enjoying free access to the best facilities available. Some of the big names to join the meta-club are Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, IIT, Ropar and Hyderabad, IIM-Calcutta, English and Foreign Languages University and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, among others.

By Jon Meacham. America must resolve the conflict between knowledge and know-how. Reports on what supposedly educated Americans know—and more sensationally, don’t know—come along fairly regularly, each more depressing than the last. A survey of recent college graduates commissioned by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and conducted by GfK Roper last year found that barely half knew that the U.S. Constitution ­establishes the separation of powers. Forty-­three percent failed to identify John Roberts as Chief Justice; 62% didn’t know the correct length of congressional terms of office. Read more...