More than 20,000 voters helped decide this year’s GoAbroad.com’s People’s Choice Awards last month, which recognise excellence and innovation in the US study abroad sector. Winners included US-based International Studies Abroad and the University of South Carolina among others.
The University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School has become the latest global business school to offer international students bank-backed loans to support their studies. The pilot programme is with Banco Santander.
College chain GSM London is to open an English school in the capital, GSM English. The school will be based in Greenford, West London and forms part of a portfolio of privately-run colleges providing UG and PG degree courses. It will market its English arm separately.
The London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) is to partner with eCornell, the e-learning arm of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, to help it deliver more programmes in new markets. The agreement marks a significant expansion of Cornell’s e-learning arm, eCornell.
A new entrant to the UK internship market is confident that more businesses will be keen to pay for a non-EU intern to work with their company, given the global mindset and new language skills they can bring with them. “Employing from overseas is a great way to internationalise a brand,” says the company’s founder.
The online language learning market is booming as students seek more flexible modes of learning, claims uSpeak, a rising star in the space. However, it says that the trend does not threaten traditional language schools, which are already incorporating e-learning into their offerings.
ACE English Malta, a new English language learning school in Malta, has opened with a glitzy party attended by industry movers and shakers including government ministers. The school opening coincides with recent figures indicating foreign student numbers to Malta were up by 18% in 2012.
A US-based mobile software developer ModoLabs has launched a new service enabling universities to customise and create their own student recruitment applications for smartphones and tablets. Mobile Admissions was inspired by research that more than 60% of prospective college students are first introduced to a university through a mobile device.
The London School of Business & Finance (LSBF) has been awarded the 2013 Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its contribution to UK trade. It is one of the few private higher education institutions to have won the award. The organisation, which delivers programmes worldwide, is also launching a new campus and pathway in Canada.
The University of Strathclyde, Scotland, has partnered with Study Group to run a pathway to its degrees in a bid to increase overseas enrolment at the university. 300 international students are expected to attend the pathway annually by 2016.
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