The top #socialmedia and #intled news this week includes a raft of webinars and white papers on data, student surveys, government policy change implications, and entry points, as well as free speech issues on campus for undocumented and international students, the power of data informing international education strategies, and election year hand-wringing in the UK.
- Are you actively recruiting international students in Europe? If you're unaware of the SEO trends, digital habits, and social platforms in use there, grab this Webcertain downloadable report.
- Staying on top of the ever-changing nature of social media and digital usage trends in China is no easy feat. There’s always something new. This Sunrise white paper on the Trends in China Digital is for you.
- This upcoming webinar on navigating global student recruitment trends by TOEFL/ETS sounds interesting. Worth an hour if you’re looking to get your team and/or senior leadership up to speed on the challenges and opportunities.
- Continuing the U.S. Entry Points series, this upcoming AIRC webinar examines some of the low-hanging fruit, community college transfers, for four-year institutions to fully leverage as part of a diversified international enrollment plan.
- Student motivations for studying abroad, barriers to access, and political uncertainty all impact international student flows. This Tuesday’s Keystone webinar reveals how student behavior is changing in 2024.
- When it comes to data insights, Studyportals provides good value and continues to deliver. This June edition covers key topics like the boom in English-taught programs outside the big 4, multidisciplinary MBAs, and top majors in top markets.
International Education News
- Though it’s easy to get bogged down in the methodologies of various ranking systems, the THE Impact Rankings certainly presents an important one: reduced inequality, designed to match SDG goal #10.
- If you didn’t attend or get the slides from one of the most impactful data sessions on international student employment in the US, this Intead blog on the key pieces of that topic and their findings is well worth your time.
- Like sands through the hourglass, the global student demand for higher education is shifting. This ETS/Sinorbis White Paper presents useful insights into why Asia’s students are changing and how you can align recruitment efforts.
- What have recent on-campus student protests over the war in Gaza taught us about the fine line between freedom of speech and legal action taken against those without status or international students on visas? Interesting piece.
- With a few Chinese scholars returning home for research or vacations being taken into custody as part of the CCP’s ever-expanding national security laws, many in the West are rightly concerned.
- What’s become clear post-pandemic is that while the desire for English-taught programs remains stronger than ever, the growth in where those programs are has changed, with 48% growth since the pandemic in ETPs outside of the big four.
- This looks promising from Commerce: “The new dashboard ‘brings together data that would otherwise be difficult to access and interpret" by combining six datasets detailing US exports, international students in the US, student arrivals by visa type, global flows of tertiary students, regulations on providing education services in international markets, and demographic and income data.’”
- Speaking of utilizing data better in our international education planning, though this article is UK-based, its lessons about the power of using data-informed strategies to counter the hyperbole often accompanying politically fueled changes.
- What do Keystone’s 27000-strong future student survey results tell us? Graduate outcomes and affordability still matter most. As a consequence, students are also applying to a much broader range of countries than ever before.
- Australia - When the largest international education serving company, IDP, starts making cuts in key markets (Australia, Canada, and the UK) due to political changes on migration policy impacting student interest, it’s serious.
- Australia - For international students Down Under looking to work post-graduation there are two streams: Post-Vocational Education Work and Post-Higher Education Work. Age maximums have also been reduced to 35 years old.
- China - QS has made a significant move in China with the acquisition of a study abroad advising company. To “add considerable capacity and expertise to our ability to serve students in China and connect western universities with China-based partners.”
- China - Also behind the Great Wall, there have been far fewer joint university partnerships formed in the last year between Chinese institutions and universities abroad. Growing retrenchment or an extended pause after last year’s no new tie-ups?
- UK - It’s an election year in Britain, and the future of universities’ financial survival is very much in the balance. With fewer students from abroad and increased costs, international students are being used as a political football sadly.
- UK - Audits are rarely fun. But UK pathway providers have jumped at the chance to show their value (and why wouldn’t they?) to the Quality Assurance Agency of Higher Education. The debate centers around entry qualifications for international v. domestic.
- UK - What did the British OfS report reveal? UK unis need a wake-up call on student recruitment, the growth in the India market shows signs of slowing, providers should set “appropriate” fees, and the time to cut costs is now. Yikes!
- UK - The talk of a visa cap (affecting more than just students) in the Tory plans should they retain power in the UK, should worry all of us in international education. Net migration numbers are already down in 2023, before new policies took effect.
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