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17 May 2012The hard lesson of cuts in funding and declining student numbers is that not everyone accepts the business case for a greater focus on teaching Asian languages.
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17 May 2012In this competitive age just signing up an agent and hoping that results will follow is not enough. Our video interview with Chris Price, taken at the ICEF North America Workshop held in Montreal last...
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16 May 2012Budget cuts scholarships despite advice THE Endeavour awards, an elite program for student mobili...Budget cuts scholarships despite adviceTHE Endeavour awards, an elite program for student mobility, will be cut by almost 5 per cent, with 150 fewer scholarships given next year.The budget measure, saving $10 million across four years, comes after...
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16 May 2012Pakistan bucks student trend PAKISTAN has become the top growth market in the struggling internat...Pakistan bucks student trendPAKISTAN has become the top growth market in the struggling international education industry, even though revenue from its neighbour India fell almost $1 billion in a single year.New Australian Bureau of Statistics figu...
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15 May 2012As the coalition attempts to cut immigration, it stands accused of taking the equivalent of a machine gun to private colleges
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14 May 2012In a bid to boost international numbers, New Zealand has agreed to speed up visa processing for those wanting to study in New Zealand – but only if they use government endorsed agents. From the end of July, international students who use a New Zea...
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14 May 2012Last year Theresa May announced that 260,000 fewer student visas will be given out over the next five years, through harsher restrictions on fake colleges and bogus students. Whilst it is clear that p...1 comment
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11 May 2012The Canadian government has closed six visa offices abroad in what it says is a step toward streamlining and modernising immigration and citizenship operations. Critics say the move complicates foreign relations and will affect Canada’s ability to...
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11 May 2012An attack in Sydney reinforces a Chinese student's perceptions. A gang of six teenagers were reported last month to have harassed passengers on a train in Sydney. When they confronted a female pas...
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10 May 2012The number of suspect private schools or colleges in the UK has plummeted by almost 95 per cent in the past four years, according to sector association, English UK. With the English language sector particularly prone to criticism, the association ...