South Korea-based student recruitment company, iae Global, has earmarked Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia as markets offering significant opportunity for growth of its student counselling and placement business.
We’ve moved in the last 10 years from working with predominantly language and some pathway providers, especially in Australia, to working with universities and pathway. English is the enabling course now rather than the primary course.
An international student exchange programme between institutions in Korea and the EU has doubled the number of students it has sent to study in Korea in the last 12 months.
The Korean Ministry of Education has revamped plans to increase foreign student enrolments after three years seeing them fall. The project also aims to combat declines in the population of domestic college-aged students, which won't meet university entrance quotas by 2018.
British Columbia has announced CAN$150,000 in scholarship funding for 120 students from China, Japan and South Korea. The province has also signed agreements to expand education cooperation with Asia.
Four universities in South Korea found to be poorly managing international students have been banned from recruiting overseas for a year, after failing to comply with the conditions of a government quality assurance scheme.
Spending by Korean students overseas has hit a nine-year low after falling 14% in the last year to US$3.702bn as the number of outbound international students has continued to fall.
A top-tier Japanese private equity fund has entered into a joint shareholding agreement with iae Global Group, one of Korea’s leading education recruitment companies, with plans to expand offices in Asia and on-shore recruitment in destination countries.
