Jon Aizlewood

International students in Adelaide, South Australia, say they feel safe and happy studying in the city, a new survey has revealed. However, as enrolments stabilise for the first time since 2009, some are still struggling to find appropriate student accommodation in this popular study destination.

TVET UK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture to help improve standards of vocational education in Indonesia and meet the needs of industry. A number of UK colleges are already benefiting from the deal.

In a major transaction in the international schools sector, World Class Learning (WCL) Group has been sold to another major player, Nord Anglia Education, in a deal which sees Sovereign Capital "realise the investment" it made in WCL Group – which operates 11 schools globally – in 2008. The acquisition is said to be worth US$222 million.

More than 20,000 voters helped decide this year's GoAbroad.com's People's Choice Awards last month, which recognise excellence and innovation in the US study abroad sector. Winners included US-based International Studies Abroad and the University of South Carolina among others.

International students will benefit from a new scholarship scheme encouraging students to take technology related courses in the Netherlands. The move is designed to help fill emerging gaps in the labour force, but international students may still struggle to find jobs.

A survey of 2,000 college bound international students reveals that after a university's website and college rankings, conversations with current students and college reps had the most influence on where they finally decided to study. They trumped on-campus tours, university brochures and agents.

If one of us travels we’re representing all of us. We have such different programmes and specialties that we’re able to not really be in competition for the same students.

US intensive English programmes (IEPs) are to raise concerns about new policy proposals from the US Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) for university pathway programmes, warning that they will complicate the admissions process and impact programme delivery. They are particularly worried by proposals affecting I20 issuance and conditional admission.

The Home Office has released a study showing that its Student Visitor Visa (SVV) is working well and not subject to abuse. The report’s release has coincided with a major debate in Parliament in which many MPs criticised the government’s wider student immigration policy, although Mark Harper defended the position.

Brazil has again dominated the QS Latin American university rankings, with a total of 81 institutions in the top 300 and Universidade de Sao Paolo (USP) taking the top spot for the third year in a row. QS said that the rankings showed the growing importance of Latin HE on the world stage but that resistance to English-taught programmes hindered universities' competitiveness.