24 Feb 2016 Here are the highlights: Online search and more specialised school selection sites have been shown to play a key role in the discovery phase of students’ research into study abroad options This, along with increased marketing spend in online channels, indicates that online should be a greater priority for senior ...
22 Feb 2016 Here are the highlights: A new report maps the major technological trends, and challenges, facing higher education institutions over the next five years It emphasises that blending learning approaches are already being widely adopted but also forecasts significant structural change for institutions by 2020 At all levels, technological change, including the ...
Australian Financial Review - 20 February 2016 The developers behind the proposed A$20 billion (US$14 billion) Australian Education City in Melbourne's south-west are trying to lure Australian universities to join the project with a promise of an inside track to large numbers of international students and big research dollars from China, writes ...
The PIE News - 20 February 2016 The loss of the United Kingdom’s two-year post-study work visa has cost the Scottish economy over £250 million (US$359 million) since the programme ended in 2012, Universities Scotland has said, while Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has publicly called for the reinstatement of the ...
By Brendan O'Malley - 19 February 2016 Mobile students are more likely to obtain a first or 2:1, more likely to have a job six months after graduation – with the difference highest among black and Asian students – and more likely to be engaged in further study. They also earn more, according ...
17 February 2016 Forty of Australia's major research institutions have joined forces in a consortium to adopt the global Open Researcher and Contributor ID, or ORCID, system in the hope of lifting the visibility of ground-breaking discoveries made by Australia's 47,000 researchers. By making available a unique 12 digit identifier for every ...
BPP University is a leading UK professional training university with degree awarding power of its own and offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in professional programmes in business, law, finance, accountancy, dentistry and Chiropractic. It is located in the main cities across the UK including London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and Manchester. The ...
16 Feb 2016 Here are the highlights: Currency values play an important role in shaping demand for study abroad We are seeing reports of actual and projected shifts in student mobility in response to dramatic (i.e., 30% or more) changes in currency exchange rates Two recent examples are Canada, which is expected to attract ...
The Sydney Morning Herald - 13 February 2016 Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham will direct the nation's top education panel to focus on university admissions after a Fairfax Media investigation revealed that the practice of admitting students with lower than the minimum Australian Tertiary Admission Rank into university courses was endemic, ...
12 Feb 2016 Here are the highlights: A new survey report gathers responses from more than 35,000 prospective international students, largely those in emerging markets The survey responses indicate important variations in the types of recruiters – school representatives, agents, alumni – that students trust and that are influential in their study abroad ...