The shooting of an Indian graduate student in Kansas City raised fears in the local media that the US could no longer be viewed as a 'dream destination' for mobile Indian students.

Universities in Wales have seen a drop in the number of non-EU international students, most notably from India and Bangladesh.

A church in Auckland is offering sanctuary to Indian students whose visas were cancelled after the education agents they used were found to have submitted fraudulent documents in their applications.

Personalisation is the key to recruiting undergraduates in India, experts advised at a seminar held at the NAFSA conference.

Indian and Pakistani university students in the UK are being targeted in a telephone scam in which perpetrators masquerade as immigration officials to extort money from them on the threat of deportation. The breach is not thought to stem from UKBA but possibly mobile phone accounts or websites that allow cv-posting.