Jon Aizlewood

South Korean universities say that they are keen to boost Latin American enrolment after numbers from that market more than doubled in three years. One link-up with Guatemala has already occurred...

While the global recession and curbs to student visas made 2011 a challenging year for those offering adult language programmes, the juniors language market has seen considerable gains. Does the rising demand augur a boom? Dan Thomas investigates...

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US think-tank the National Center on Education and the Economy this week launched a research centre to benchmark the world’s most successful education systems against each other.

Indian enrolments in Germany shot up 24% in 2011, thanks to scholarships, English-medium courses and restrictive visa conditions in rival study destinations. German plans to increase work and residence rights for international students should accentuate the growth in 2012.

London-based Malvern House, part of AEC Education, has announced international expansion in 2012 with centres opening in Ireland and Oman. Meanwhile, Malvern House London is repositioning itself, with upgraded facilities, reduced class sizes, new programmes and a new price structure.

Cambridge Education Group is to open a new Stafford House School of English in Brighton, UK, at the end of April. The school will offer adult language courses and be be situated on Brighton’s beachfront.

Indian students can meet Australian university representatives online at the IDP virtual student fair, which is running for the next week or so. IDP is also staging roadshows across the country.

The number of international branch campuses worldwide will continue to grow, new research has found; however, much of the activity will move from the Middle East towards East Asia. ‘South to South’ campuses – where both the home and host institutions are in the ‘developing’ world - are also on the up.

English UK has been successful in forcing a backtrack over the story of banned colleges which was distributed by the media last year after a briefing by the UK Border Authority. UKBA has laid the blame at the media, insisting two lists of colleges were distributed to press.