Jon Aizlewood

An American college organisation that had previously advocated a ban on the payment of commission to overseas education agents as “student recruiters” has softened its stance, calling for a delay of up to two years on clarifying its Statement of Principles while a commission looks into the issue. The board of the National Association for […]

An IELTS testing centre at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, is to close after an investigation found that test-takers were able to cheat their results – one newspaper report in The Australian said that students would pay up to AUS$11,000 for fake IELTS results – a competent language proficiency score can mean a pathway […]

QS, the company that is possibly best known for its World University Rankings, has announced that it is now working in the student recruitment market, focusing on promoting and counselling students about opportunities in higher education overseas. It will work directly and in partnership with education agencies. A first partnership with Global Reach agency in […]

Libyan students who were recipients of scholarships while studying in the USA have been left in limbo since unrest in Libya began and their funding dried up. The US government has announced special measures to alleviate their position – chiefly, allowing them to work and reducing their course load at the same time. “We want […]

A solution has been found to the fiasco of having no appropriate body able to verify the quality and integrity of English language schools and various other private education providers in the UK. The government announced today that the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) will take charge […]

New Zealand is the latest country to amend its immigration regulations in an effort to weed out migrants using the student route primarily to access permanent residency. Immigration New Zealand has unveiled new rules that come into play from 25 July. In brief, student attendance and progress will be more closely monitored, as will student […]

A UK government policy on student visas that is founded on flawed and unreliable data will continue to be championed by the UK, in a political climate that values immigration over the economy. This was the message of Tony Millns, Chief Executive of English UK, at the recent Annual Conference of the 440-strong membership organisation. […]

Reinforcing the increasing professionalism with which education agencies are being regarded, a representative body for migration agents in Australia, the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA), has

A long-awaited cohesive brand for Ireland’s international education sector was revealed on March 24 by Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn and the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton. Ambitious plans to double the amount of foreign students in the university sector were also unveiled, from the current base of 26,000, and […]

INTO University Partnerships, is expanding into China with a new twist on its model of working with universities to tap into demand for a Western education