Jon Aizlewood

Cambridge ESOL has opened 21 new exam centres in China. The company says the expansion is part of a wider plan to increase access to the high-level CAE test since it was recognised by Australia’s Immigration Department and UKBA...

The inflow of “new” international students – those applying for a visa for the first time – to New Zealand has slowed considerably since 2008/9. The total number of first time student visa applicants grew rapidly from 27,337 in 2005/6 to 41,702 in 2008/9, but fell to 38,345 in 2009/10. It grew only slightly to 38,561 this year.

In a sign of growth in Iraq's nascent study abroad market, Pearson opened its first language testing centre in the country...

In 1995, the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing had 41 international students. In 2004, UIBE had around 1,000 international students and it now has 2,900 international students and rising. Peter Davis talks to staff at the university and reflects on a trend in China for building inbound international student traffic, via international partnerships and government scholarships.

Liam Burns, the president of the UK’s National Union of Students, said last week during a sub-committee hearing at the House of Lords, that too few UK students from underpriviledged backgrounds are benefiting from European Union grants to study abroad.

We want to create a partnership as the name suggests and we want education agents to be able to develop their own business by working with Pearson

Fifty-five students and seven academics from the UK and Brazil have taken part in a two-week exchange programme to study at campuses in each other’s countries...

The language school hosting the 2012 workshop for IALC is offering a scholarship each week to education agents...

Bell, the UK-based global language chain, is to launch new summer programmes for young learners at Ardingly College in West Sussex...

Russian language school Liden & Denz has rolled out a new system for students to book tickets to social and cultural events through their website. Students can also be updated via an RSS feed...