Research

Canadian public schools aren’t doing enough to promote the country’s unique French/English bilingual society new research commissioned by the Canadian Association of Public Schools - International (CAPS-I) has found. The single most significant reason high school students choose to study in Canada for French language acquisition is the country’s bilingual environment it reports.

International students and educational institutions in the US have very different perceptions of retention factors, NAFSA research reveals. The study compares the reasons given by institutions and international students to explain why international students quit degrees before completion.

A report by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) has found that global HE enrolments increased from 32.6 million in 1970 to 182.2 million in 2011; 46% in the East and South East Asia. It brings together data on expansion strategies from different sources in 26 Asian countries for policy makers.

Thanks to significant boosts in research funding, universities in Singapore and Korea are gaining ground in the QS University Rankings: Asia over traditional leaders Japan and Hong Kong. The National University of Singapore tops the list for the first time, while Korea's KAIST climbs from sixth to second place.

Findings from research conducted by the British Council and the German Academic Exchange Service show that transnational education (TNE) is often an affordable alternative to traditional student mobility and is seen to better prepare students for the job market than local providers.

A new global higher education ranking backed by €2 million in European Union funding launches today. As well as assessing the overall performance of 850 universities worldwide, U-Multirank will enable users to create personalised rankings according to their priorities.

The number of international students studying at higher education level in Japan has declined for the third year running, though foreign student numbers are up in language institutions, new data from the Japan Student Services Organisation (JASSO) has revealed.

Over a third of UK tertiary-aged students are considering studying overseas, up 17% from last year, according to a recent British Council survey of more than 2,500 students. The most popular overseas study destination by a large margin is the USA, followed by Australia, France and Germany.

Numbers of applications to US graduate schools have increased by 7% despite a 1% drop from the US's largest international graduate student source country, China. The gain has instead been lead by double digit growth from Indian students for the second year in a row according to data from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).

A huge study of 22,000 university students and professors carried out by Universia, the largest global network of Spanish and Portuguese speaking universities, has revealed that only 15% of students in Spain, Portugal and Latin America have studied in a foreign country.

Latest stats from Malta reveal a slowdown in enrolments although a rise in student weeks helped buoy the English language teaching market overall in 2013. Italy, Russia and Germany led the Western European underpinning of the sector, while the impotance of the ELT market within overall tourism was also highlighted.

The UK's "unwelcoming" immigration policy is largely to blame for an unprecedented fall in the number of incoming international STEM students, a House of Lords report has concluded. The Lords have called for a "simpler" immigration policy that excludes overseas students from net migration figures and the reinstatement of the post-study work visa.

A study has shown UK independent English language schools outperform proprietary chain schools based on scores ranked against national averages from the British Council-endorsed accreditation rankings. It also revealed that experience can lead to excellence, with most top-ranked ELT players over 20 years old.

The total revenue earned by UK universities amounted to £27.9 billion in 2011-12 with international revenues amounting to nearly £5.7 billion, accounting for over 20% of all university income, according to a new Universities UK (UUK) report unveiled today at “The contribution of UK universities to national and local economic growth” conference.

Data is painting a picture of rampant demand in Hong Kong for English medium education, with new international school expansions unlikely to keep up with booming demand in the former British territory. ISC data shows that the number of international schools has shot up from 92 to 171 in the last 14 years.