Nigerian education agents are allegedly offering loans to students so they can bypass UK immigration requirements, The PIE News has learnt.

Leverage Edu is to launch operations in Nigeria with an office in Lagos, three months after opening a UK office.

UK education providers are introducing support measures and reimbursing students required to quarantine on arrival in the country, following a change in travel measures brought in by the UK government as a response to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

Artificial intelligence recruitment platform ApplyBoard has recorded a boom in application volumes while projecting the direction of the international education sector over the next decade in its first trends report, with Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Indonesia set for high growth.

The British Council has launched a program seeking to foster and strengthen African universities support for entrepreneurial ecosystems.

The number of African scholars joining staff ranks at higher learning institutions in the US dropped by 21% in the last three years to stand at 1,960 in 2020, down from 2,479 in 2017, recent data shows.

UK education is set for a renaissance in Nigeria as institutions look to develop transnational education partnerships in the country. In 2019/20, 4,368 students were studying degrees in Nigeria through TNE, a 20% increase year on year.

African international student advisory agents are alleging bias over sustained low rates of student permits approvals for applications to study in Canada, when compared to those for the rest of the world.