The UK has announced a new visa route for 2013 to encourage the "brightest and best" entrepreneurs to stay on in the country focusing on a quality over quantity approach to immigration.In a speech given last week by Immigration Minister, Damian Green, at the Policy Exchange, he outlined that in

AUSTRALIA is facing the most "challenging and volatile" environment in the $16 billion international student market for almost three decades, with enrolment numbers from China, Australia's biggest market, down for a second year by about 15 per cent.Plummeting Chinese enrolments, which once represented 25 per cent of Australia's international students,

European study abroad network, the Agency for International Language Study (AILS), has launched a new website to promote its homestay language classes because of the increasing popularity of study in a teacher’s home.The site promotes the company’s total immersion programmes, in which participants are given private language classes by a

It is also offering a special, nine-month study programme for accelerated “multilingual” learning. The EF Multi-Language Year, enables participants to choose two or three of EF’s 41 International Language Centers worldwide to create their own tailor-made study tour, learning up to three languages in a year.“For young people today, it’s

GROUPS of education providers who have a history of their international students not complying with immigration rules could find that their future students face higher hurdles in qualifying for a visa, according to a government discussion paper.To view the article in full, log-in to the The Australian here

But after spending her early adult years living, working and studying in the city, the 25-year-old says she still feels unfairly pitted against her Canadian peers because of higher tuition fees."It’s been a rough ride," says Hunt, who’s been shelling out between $14,000 and $18,000 a year to study dance

After WWII study abroad programs were pushed as a means of encouraging international understanding and to “counteract the idiosyncrasies and the relative isolation of national systems of higher education," Ulrich Teichler writes in the new issue of the Journal of International Education.This ideal culminated in the 1999 Bologna Declaration, which

States have become the battleground for international students' rights, with Queensland's sudden termination of school tuition fee exemptions merely the latest example of a state-sponsored "cash cow" approach.Financially anorexic state government departments across the country have targeted overseas students to help plug budget holes, with no consideration of the big-picture

Mrs Nargundkar's Education Access Australia had been one of the eight biggest providers of courses to overseas students.She said 2009 changes to immigration policy separating education from immigration, and more stringent student visas had left the schools in limbo.While the changes were designed to stop unethical providers, she said they

The UK was still the most popular destination for the Swiss study abroad market last year, but the USA is catching up quickly, according to the latest research from the national education agency association.The findings come in a report from the Swiss Association of Language Travel Agents (SALTA) released last

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