The PIE News team

The £4.2m English for Education College Trainers’ (EfECT) scheme seeks to place native English teacher trainers in 21 of Burma’s training colleges. It aims to improve English language development in the country and increase teaching quality in relevant educational institutions.

The demographic breakdown, learning approach and business model have all changed and international schools are no longer a small market catering for a niche group. The international schools market is now big business.

Sri Lanka says it still aims to become an international education hub by 2020, despite signs earlier this year that the plans had stalled. The Higher Education Ministry said last month that it wanted attract more foreign branch campuses as well as convert local universities into world class universities.

Kuwait's ministry of higher education is to give Kuwaiti students 4,500 scholarships to study abroad in 2013-14. The scheme is designed to improve Kuwaiti human capital with awardees studying majors that accord with labour market needs. The awards can be used at top universities in 13 countries, although details of these are yet to be published.

Demand for international schools places is soaring with Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, Qatar, Malaysia and Singapore offering the best investment opportunities for foreign providers, new research has claimed. Demand is being driven by the rising prosperity of local families.

We have over the years advised and sent students to dozens of institutions with whom we have no commercial interests and banked the student’s goodwill. Our goodwill bank is very deep, hence a positive word of mouth.

As Greece is beleaguered by a severe financial crisis, the prospect for young Greeks of studying abroad is no longer just an additional consideration but rather the most plausible way to build strong foundations for a profitable career. Apostolos Kostoulas examines trends in Greece's outbound study sector.

The results of a study by real estate advisor, DTZ, suggest that London is heading for a shortage of affordable student accommodation, as most planned development over the next two years is occurring in the more expensive zone 1 area of the city. The problem stems from the fact that private developers are looking to […]

CIBT Education Group has announced that it has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with Hunan Radio and Television University (HUTVU). According to the announcement, the two companies will work together to “offer hotel and tourism management programmes through CIBT Group’s Global Learning Network (GLN).” Programs will include “English training for the hotel industry, a […]