AIEC in Australia focused on how the international education sector must ‘embrace diversity’ in 2017, with sessions focused on integration and inclusion. However, an announcement on broadening Elicos standards to all ELT providers was the news that hogged the headlines, but not for the right reasons.
Educational institutions should do more to bridge the social gaps between domestic and international students both in and outside the classroom, a CISA survey has concluded.
The top curator of one of international education's most voluminous research databases is among this year's winners of the IEAA Excellence Awards.
Educators in the US must change their approach to study abroad in order to boost outbound numbers, Fanta Aw, president of NAFSA, has said. She also spoke about trends in inbound mobility, noting that international recruitment has "ramped up".
The Indian government will soon recognise pathway and foundation courses from Australian institutions, it was announced this week at the Australia India Ministerial Dialogue in New Delhi.
International education is a success story in Australia at the moment with overall enrolments up 12% to June this year, but peak bodies openly discussed the need to ensure that "good growth" is achieved, as current industry bugbears around Streamlined Visa Processing (SVP) and the Tuition Protection Service (TPS) were laid bare.
While the Australian sector was pleased to hear new Minister Christopher Pyne speaking of the "tremendous zeal" for rebuilding the international education sector, the CEO of peak body ACPET has drawn attention to rumours that only 20 of 90 eligible providers beyond universities may benefit from Streamlined Visa Processing (SVP).
New data modelling from the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) predicts that the downturn in Australia's international education industry will get worse before it gets better, taking almost a decade to recover and threatening further jobs.
