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Australia: short-term study crucial to outbound “diversity” 27 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
As Australia positions itself to increase student mobility in the Asian century with several programmes encouraging domestic students go abroad, a study has found that Asian destinations dominate shor...
Funding boost for Mandela Rhodes scholarship 27 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
The prestigious Nelson Mandela Rhodes Scholarship programme looks set to expand its support for post graduate study in South Africa after a successful fundraising campaign to mark its 10th anniversary...
Student comms disrupted by China Yahoo! Mail closure 23 Aug 2013 | 05:43 pm
Yahoo! officially shutdown its email service in China this Monday giving users a week to save data and their contacts list before accounts are permanently deleted on August 26. Although the closure w...
Bai Fan, CEO, OKHIWI.com 23 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
Bai Fan has launched a website promoting British businesses to Chinese students. Having already founded a successful production and media company, and as a former international student himself, he sha...
USA: training aims to increase diversity in study abroad 23 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and Diversity Abroad, two of the world’s leading organisations in international education, have joined forces to develop the Future Leaders Sum...
South Africa: Growth in EFL, sector unites to lobby government 22 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
The English language travel industry in South Africa saw growth in both student numbers and weeks from 2011 to 2012 and providers are bullish about 2013 after a solid first half of the year according ...
New Zealand unis sign MoUs with Papua New Guinea 22 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
Two universities in New Zealand have signed MoU’s with the government in Papua New Guinea as the country continues to develop educational collaborations with markets in the promising Pacific region. ...
LSBF pairs with NCUK, expands pathway portfolio 21 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
LSBF has partnered with pathway provider North Consortium UK (NCUK) to offer English and academic preparation courses at its London campus. The collaboration will see LSBF’s pathway portfolio grow to ...
Colombia aims to boost Spanish language teaching 21 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
Making good on the claim that Colombians speak “the best” Spanish in the world, the government has launched a campaign to double Spanish language learners in the country by 2014 and become the leading...
Finland keen to make education an export 21 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
The newly appointed Finnish Minister of Education and Science, Krista Kiuru, is in Asia this week to promote education as an export for the first time. The government is making bold moves to explore w...
