Policy

US president Barack Obama has called on congress to make it easier for international students to work in America after they graduate. He criticised current regulations, saying the US was educating then sending home highly skilled graduates with no benefit to the economy.

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.

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.

English UK has been successful in forcing a backtrack over the story of banned colleges which was distributed by the media last year after a briefing by the UK Border Authority. UKBA has laid the blame at the media, insisting two lists of colleges were distributed to press.

Despite the great expectations surrounding visa reforms introduced in September, Australia still has a way to go before it halts its recruitment downslide, after latest figures indicate that education exports fell by 15% in 2011. Some commentators fear further slides before visa changes impact on numbers.

A parliamentary report has called for sweeping reforms to address a shortage of affordable and regulated international student housing in New South Wales, Australia, and recommended travel concessions for students to enable them to live farther afield.

The UK chancellor has announced a number of initiatives to help British universities expand overseas. These include an online portal, HE Global, launching in Jan. And Osborne promised a “vehicle” to help the education sector, government and business work together in selling British education abroad.

Canada has a golden opportunity to boost its profile as a study destination, said industry figures last week at the CBIE conference. One commentator said, “People have been keeping an eye for years on what Australia is doing, but now it's Canada." Efforts to act cohesively and use visa policy as an incentive are planned to capitalise on international student growth.

The UK has become a less welcoming study destination due to its tough new visa rules and problematic visa application process, a survey of international students confirms today. A total of 5,000 overseas students on UK university and college courses were polled, with one in five saying they no longer felt welcome in the country.

All Australian students will be entitled to learn a language other than English under the new Australian curriculum, with tuition in Chinese Mandarin and Italian among the first curriculum to be developed...

Australia has published a new book that charts its 25-year history of welcoming international students. The book was officially unveiled today in Canberra by Senator Evans, who also talked about a new five-year national strategy towards education exports in the "Asian century".

The Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, attended the MEI agent workshop last month and met education agents and members of Ireland's....

The Irish government has announced the launch of a Student Ambassador programme to increase recruitment from the US, its biggest market, to mark International Education Week.

In an effort to restore their reputations – sullied by their own government – English UK members have instructed lawyers to demand a full retraction and apology for wrongly including them on a list of colleges “banned” from bringing international students into the UK. “We are co-ordinating action over the way in which the Home […]