AUSTRALIA: A PERTH lecturer found to have pressured failing Chinese students for sex is unlikely to be the only academic to exploit the vulnerability of students caught up in Australia's visas-for-degrees trade, according to the WA Corruption and Crime Commission

USA: In an effort to help welcome and support international students who are moving to the U.S. in order to earn a degree, many American colleges are hosting freshmen and international orientations.

USA: Although the past decade has seen a focus on internationalization at the academic level as universities across the nation have adapted strategic plans to help achieve goals of globalizing teaching, learning and research, the economic downturn has forced many of these universities to reconsider their once ambitious plans, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education.

AUSTRALIA: Source: The Australian THE fall in international student commencements accelerated in July as numbers from India plummeted with the crackdown on student visa fraud and tougher migration policies.

INDIA: Edify Education is planning to start seven schools in West Bengal and India’s North East region.

AUSTRALIA: International student visa numbers dropped more than 16 per cent last financial year, with the number from India falling by more than half.

AUSTRALIA: PRIORITY efforts by universities and TAFEs to win more streamlined visa processing for their students are being hampered by a lack of official research on student visa breaches

AUSTRALIA: OVERSEAS students getting as little as $6 an hour to work in local Asian restaurants are too afraid to complain for fear of losing even the meagre wages paid by their unscrupulous bosses.

CANADA:Fifty high-level Chinese delegates converged on the University of Alberta campus this week in an effort to increase the number of Chinese students studying in Edmonton.

AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIAN students have found it harder to gain entry into the University of Sydney than Oxford after graduating with the International Baccalaureate, the Australasian manager of the year 12 qualification said.