The future of India’s ongoing higher education reforms could soon have a distinctly Australian-flavour after PM Modi met with the chief executive of a Sydney-based provider.

With 2019 just around the corner, here’s a look back at this year, and some of the stories which have grabbed our attention and yours!

Over 400 offer holders to Niagara College, Canada, from India have been told to re-sit their IELTS or risk losing admission after the institutions raised concerns about the English language proficiency of a current cohort of students who had been tested in the same test centre.

Flywire has announced a new program it says will help students from India pay their tuition fees to global universities efficiently.

India is widely perceived as the fastest-growing source market for the next three years, a survey by DIAC and BMI has revealed, with emerging destination markets forecast to benefit from its growth.

Student counsellor and recruiter Zoom Abroad is aiming to present potential international students with study options in an "ethical" way via its app.

PQ and VFS Global has consolidated their efforts in a bid to provide visa verification services for students looking to study in Australia.

India's IITs will cut fees for international students and push to recruit foreign academics to permanent roles in a bid to expand their talent pool and boost global rankings.