28 Jan 2015 Australia has seen a dramatic increase in the number of international student visas cancelled or under review over the last three years. The Australian is reporting a surge in the number of “non-genuine” students in the country, and has obtained figures indicating that the number of cancelled student ...
27 Jan 2015 A recent UK report found that about a third of all international undergraduate students in England transferred from programmes delivered offshore. Another Canadian survey notes that the number of institutions offering programmes in collaboration with international partners has nearly doubled since 2006. And Australian institutions currently offer more ...
January 17, 2015 - By Amy McNeilage International students are being exploited in workplaces across Sydney, paid as little as $8 an hour by employers who take advantage of their desperate need for work. The underpayments, well below the legal entitlement, are pushing many to break visa restrictions that limit their work ...
By Beckie Smith - Jan 5, 2015 The University of Edinburgh intends to give half of its places to international students in a bid to “attract the best students from around the world”, its Principal, Timothy O’Shea, has said. At the moment international students account for 41% of the total student population, ...
12 Jan 2015 The global gross tertiary enrolment ratio (GTER) – that is, the percentage of the tertiary-aged population actually enrolled in higher education – has more than doubled over the past 20 years, growing from 14% in 1992 to 32% in 2012. This compares to an increase of just 4% ...
By Beckie Smith - Jan 8, 2015 Cambridge Education Group, one of the UK’s leading pathway providers, has partnered with the University of North Texas in a further expansion of its ONCAMPUS pathway programme provision in the US. ONCAMPUS Texas will welcome its first cohort of around 40 students in September ...
By Beckie Smith - Jan 6, 2015 Over a third of international students in the UK would not recommend it as a study destination to family and friends due to the scarcity of available job and work experience opportunities, research from the National Union of Students (NUS) and The Entrepreneurs Network ...
By Beckie Smith - Jan 8, 2015 Saskatchewan has unveiled a new international education strategy that aims to increase the number of post-secondary level international students coming into the Canadian province by 75% by 2020, helping to plug a labour market gap and build international trade relationships. The three-tiered Post-Secondary International ...
Wal-Mart recently announced that it would be offering many of its employees an opportunity to work on a college degree through an agreement with American Public Education, Inc (APE). APE offers online degree programs through the two components of its American Public University System (APUS), American Military University (AMU) ...
By Beckie Smith - Jan 5, 2015 International students studying in France contributed a net €1.6bn (US$2bn) to the country’s economy last year, a first-of-its-kind report commissioned by Campus France reveals. The report, Au-delà de l’influence: l’apport économique des étudiants étrangers en France, estimates that the 295,084 foreign students who studied ...