Sterling collapse: short-term upside for ELT?
A short-term impact of the Brexit vote in the UK is a likely uplift in study travel to the UK for English language study because of the value of the pound sterling falling.
A short-term impact of the Brexit vote in the UK is a likely uplift in study travel to the UK for English language study because of the value of the pound sterling falling.
A survey of prospective international students has revealed that almost half would be less interested in studying in the country if it were to leave the EU.
The European University Association has created an interactive map documenting support for refugees in higher education across the region. Launched last month, the Refugees Welcome map currently displays 191 initiatives across Europe and further afield and is continuously being updated with new programmes.
The new Erasmus+ programme has paid out €918m in grants for studying, training or volunteering abroad in 2014, the European Commission has said, funding work and study abroad for more than 500,000 students and 150,000 staff across Europe.
Just over half of all secondary school pupils in the EU studied two or more foreign languages in 2014, new statistics from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, have shown.
Studying or working abroad through the European mobility programme Erasmus has a notably bigger impact on students’ long-term employability in Eastern and Southern Europe than elsewhere, a new study has found.
Ireland has been named the country with the most satisfied international students in Europe in the 2015 StudyPortals International Student Satisfaction awards, surpassing the Nordic countries for the first time.
Leaving the EU would be “devastating” for the UK’s higher education sector, the country’s former Minister for Europe, Keith Vaz, has said.