Katie Duncan

Booming Chinese investment in Africa could prove to be beneficial for France. With historical and lingual ties to several countries on the continent, France has seen an increase in Chinese students keen to learn French and establish ties with French industry. As a result, the French government has initiated a series of programmes to attract Chinese students to France.

Just two months after its initial launch, the Institute of International Education's Generation Study Abroad campaign has doubled the number of commitment partners dedicated to increasing the number of US students studying abroad to 600,000 by the end of the decade.

Student Friendship Ceremonies, employer engagement, world-class digital interactive learning environments and Asian-oriented business links.. Brisbane has all this and is now the host of the G20 Leaders Summit. As the eyes of the world focus on it, Brisbane is keen to extoll the virtues of a city that is works hard to offer far more than just a study experience. Katie Duncan reports on Brisbane's bold ambitions.

We’ve got a particular niche, we don’t pretend to be an Oxford and Cambridge research type university, our focus is on practical career education.

Eurocentres, which welcomes 13,000 students every year worldwide, has entered the UK university pathway market with five universities in place for the launch of its UNICENTRES brand that aligns employability with HE and teaches at a new "boutique" hub in the centre of London.

The Eurocrisis hasn't affected Germany's outbound student market as 2013 figures from the German agency association, FDSV, show that student weeks increased, lead by strong demand for English courses in the junior market. The UK continues to dominate destination choice but has lost market share to English speaking competitors including Malta and the USA the association reports.

Australia is experiencing its strongest ever start to the year, bar its peak year of 2009, and has seen 21% growth across all international education sectors, latest AEI statistics have revealed. Yet growth is namely across higher education and Streamlined Visa Processing (SVP) providers, meaning it is not as balanced as it seems.

Canada's University of Windsor is facing a legal battle with Higher-Edge, a student recruitment firm suing the university for $24.1 million over approaches to its employees and to international students directly. Higher-Edge runs the Canadian University Application Centre in various countries.

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in the UK has announced a reinforced partnership with Study Group that will aim for a three-fold increase in non-EU student numbers ahead of a new city-centre campus opening in 2017. Meanwhile, the University of Stirling is teaming up with INTO University Partnerships.

The Sri Lankan government has outlined plans to open up its higher educational system to private overseas university investors and aims to attract 50,000 international students and 10 foreign university campuses by 2020, starting with a UCLAN campus which will open in September 2015.