Industry News

The Growth of Private and For-Profit Higher Education in Britain: Competition or Collaboration?

Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:00

Today [Universities in Britain] are facing two imminent threats to their near-monopoly of higher education. [The Chronicle]

Education not a commodity: Austrade

Monday, 12 July 2010 00:00

International education might be Australia’s fourth biggest export earner. But its new promoters will be talking up people, not purses. (sub req'd) [Campus Review]

English language schools win court battle over visas

Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00

English language schools have won a High Court battle over visa restrictions which they say are absurd and damaging to their businesses. [BBC]

Foreign-Student Enrollments in U.S. Rise Despite Global Recession

Thursday, 08 July 2010 00:00

The enrollment of foreign students at American colleges climbed in the most recent academic year, according to new visa data, confounding expectations that international-student numbers would drop because of the worldwide financial crisis. (sub req'd) [Campus Review]

Is Australia's education sector facing Asian challenge?

Tuesday, 06 July 2010 00:00

International education is one of Australia's biggest export earners, bringing in over 15-billion Australian dollars a year. Many students - over 40 per cent - come from India and China, and significant numbers also come from Malaysia, South Korea and Thailand. Now, attempts to clean up the education sector - shutting down so-called "visa factory" education providers for example - are making it more difficult for international students to get into Australia. So could that play into the hands of countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and China, which have been building up their education sectors for some time, and are eager to attract overseas students. [Radio Australia]

Think you’ve got brain drain problems? Check out China.

Monday, 05 July 2010 00:00

China’s university system is expanding fast – but the continuing exodus of students suggests its appetite for higher education is expanding faster.

International education magnets like Australia, the US, Canada and France are benefiting from a massive brain drain from China, where students are rejecting the top universities in favour of overseas institutions, according to recent reports from the official Xinhua news agency. But Australian international education experts say it's more a case of too much demand for too few prized local places. (sub req'd) [Campus Review]

DAAD President Kunst calls for cosmopolitan education: “International experience is vital to survival in times of globalisation!

Monday, 05 July 2010 00:00

Today, at a press conference in Berlin, Sabine Kunst presented the focal points of her future work: "I look forward to heading the largest organisation for academic exchange and academic co-operation world-wide. In the course of globalisation, international experience and, therefore, cosmopolitan education are becoming virtually vital to survival. Our aim ought to be that at least 50 percent of German students go abroad for a while during their studies and, also, that the numbers of foreign students and academics at German higher education institutions grow steadily." [Alpha Galileo]

Britain and US preferred by China students

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 00:00

THE best student recruiters in China are switching to the US and Britain as destinations, says agent John Findley. “All agents [in China] are fed up with our current government’s attitude to migration,” said Mr Findley, who has just attended this month’s Beijing International Education Expo. China is Australia’s biggest market. [The Australian]

GLOBAL: World students call for free, accessible HE

Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00

Unions representing 150 million students worldwide last week called on leaders meeting at the G8 and G20 summits in Canada to forge plans to meet the UN principle of equal access to free higher education, to support education as a public good, and to chart courses towards a more equitable global economy and against poverty and global warming. [University World News]

Five national education associations establish the Canadian Consortium for International Education Marketing

Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00

As a signal of their commitment to attracting the best and brightest students to Canada, the presidents of five key national education associations signed a Memorandum of Understanding today establishing the Canadian Consortium for International Education Marketing.
[Media Release, Association of Universities of Colleges of Canada]