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The UK’s ELT sector was encouraged to step out of the shadows and get proactive about its brands at the English UK Marketing conference last week. Delegates heard about market opportunities in Kurdistan and Kazakhstan and were given insights into branding by experts in the field.

UK Minister, David Willetts, met Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, Minister of Higher Education in Kurdistan, to develop links with the scholarship programme...

A leading university association is lobbying the British government to change the way it counts migration figures by excluding international students. Universities UK (UUK) has suggested that by doing so, further restrictions on non-EU student visas could be avoided.

Nine mostly US universities have been honoured for their outstanding internationalisation efforts in awards from the Institute of International Education (IIE)...

The English Network, a nexus of UK-based ELT providers, held its second annual conference focused on raising quality standards among independent operators...

Following the depreciation of the rupee against most major Western currencies in 2011, observers are warning that Indian study abroad traffic could slow in 2012. However, agents who talked to the PIE remain confident.

The UK has officially launched HE Global, its new campaign to help boost UK transnational education (TNE), such as twinning programmes, campuses abroad and even online learning. It says that TNE is an important "soft power" tool which supports the UK's image abroad.

IDP Education has seen satisfactory demand for its second ELT centre in Cambodia, but competition remains stiff...

English language training isn’t usually associated with smouldering sex symbols – which is perhaps why one of Brazil’s biggest operators, CCAA, has cast the Hollywood siren Megan Fox in its latest television commercial. The PIE talks to CCAA about the campaign.

Groupement FLE (GFLE) has cemented its status as a go-getting professional organisation after holding a recent weekend summit...

A research project has been launched that could lead to student loans for university students in Australia being extended to international students for the first time. Those in charge say the move could revive Australia's education exports sector.

King College International is to launch an English language learning and football programme in Spain...

Turkey, Jordan and Georgia are the latest countries to join a new system in which all UK visa applications must be paid for online and in dollars. The countries will join the system from January 30. From next month, appointment booking for biometric checking also becomes automated online.

South Korean universities say that they are keen to boost Latin American enrolment after numbers from that market more than doubled in three years. One link-up with Guatemala has already occurred...

US think-tank the National Center on Education and the Economy this week launched a research centre to benchmark the world’s most successful education systems against each other.