A consortium of universities operating under the banner of Education Hungary have embarked on an aggressive student recruitment exercise across Africa.

Only one in 10 candidates will get a place to study at the Pan African University, the latest selection of students for the next academic year shows.

IRCC has said that all study permit applications are assessed equally regardless of the country of origin, after stakeholders pointed to high refusal rates in Africa.

The French National Research Agency has renewed its calls for university partnership projects as part of the “Partnerships with African Higher Education program.

The government of Turkey is using the recent third Turkey–Africa summit as a springboard to attracting more African students to its universities.

Artificial intelligence recruitment platform ApplyBoard has recorded a boom in application volumes while projecting the direction of the international education sector over the next decade in its first trends report, with Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Indonesia set for high growth.

The number of African scholars joining staff ranks at higher learning institutions in the US dropped by 21% in the last three years to stand at 1,960 in 2020, down from 2,479 in 2017, recent data shows.

African international student advisory agents are alleging bias over sustained low rates of student permits approvals for applications to study in Canada, when compared to those for the rest of the world.