Welcome to PIER for Counsellors
PIER is a growing, centralised network of education partners to help keep institutions, agencies and affiliates connected and informed. With a suite of expanding tools, its application range from providing the infrastructure to offer online courses, to serving in-depth information that would best assist prospective students looking to study abroad.
Through the PIER Counsellor Dashboard, agents can connect with other agency partners around the globe, and keep informed about the latest news in the international education industry.
News
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May 2013
In 2016, a group of students will receive master's degrees in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology. These students will pay $7000 for the degree – about one-sixth of the traditional cost – and may never set foot on campus. Thanks ...
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May 2013
Two leaders in the homestay industry have partnered to form the world’s largest education homestay organisation. The alliance between the American Homestay Network (AHN-USA) and the Australian Homestay Network (AHN-AUS) will see both entities grow...
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May 2013
QUT is looking to tap the power of analytics with a plan to mine data from multiple systems including massively open online courses.
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May 2013
“It’s Mooc or die”, a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future.
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May 2013
High Court faults lack of fairness in student caseA TRIBUNAL has been ticked off by the highest court in the land for its handling of a case involving an overseas student.The Migration Review Tribunal had refused to put off a decision in the case ...
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May 2013
INTERNATIONAL enrolments will bottom out this year but they won't recover to 2009 "boom" levels until 2019, researcher Alan Olsen has warned.Mr Olsen told yesterday’s NEAS English language teaching conference that education exports w...
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May 2013
http://monitor.icef.com/2013/05/australian-private-sector-providers-continue-to-call-for-visa-reforms/
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May 2013
Places as diverse as Moscow, Tver, Volgograd and Vladivostok offer a range of faculties that go beyond the usual suspects of engineering and medicine
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May 2013
Number of foreign students at varsity at an all-time high - EVEN AS the number of international students is an important parameter in world rankings, Mumbai University has, for the
