Jon Aizlewood

Brazil announced this summer that it is to invest in 75,000 scholarships to enable its top students to study science and technology abroad by 2014. The decision comes as part of a programme to enhance the competitiveness of Brazilian industry. The Science without Borders programme will cost Brazil $2.02 billion and involve 238 top foreign […]

A new association to represent the many international education agencies operating across Europe was launched this summer in a bid to support industry development on the continent.

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), a leading association for English language educators in the USA, has changed its name to TESOL International Association. With the new title it hopes to...

A close alliance when it comes to education looks like an inevitable outcome of recent government talks between Germany and Vietnam. Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in Vietnam and..

Ambitious education chain, EC English Language Centres, has announced that it will take over three of the four schools owned by LSC – Canada’s longest-established language school, which turns 50 next year. LSC (Language Studies Canada) President, David Diplock, announced that LSC Calgary would close, while Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal are now to become part […]

Local language camps, offering a foreign language learning experience in a client’s home country, are a popular option with parents who want to expose their children to language, culture and self-development during the holidays but don’t want to send them overseas. For some education agents, this is a lucrative business stream.  Universally, all social classes […]

Since 1999, the number of students enrolling in educational establishments outside of their home country has risen by 53 per cent, according to Unesco’s Education Research Network (ERI-Net) in the Asia-Pacific. China, accounting for 14.9 per cent of the world’s international students in 2008, plans to attract 500,000 inbound students by 2020, leading a “fight […]

INSEAD, an international business school chain that brands itself “The Business School for the World’, has just launched new executive programmes for the Asian market..

In five years, because of our brand and the way we communicate with the internationally mobile student audience, I think that certainly we have ambitions to be operating QS Advance right around the world.

More than 2,000 English language students had a great evening at an event co-hosted by English UK and corporate member Lost in London earlier this year. Fiestaval, held in July, featured samba dancers, Brazilian drummers, aerial performers, jugglers, beat boxers and many other eye- catching performers from different cultures. It attracted students from all over […]