This week's top #socialmedia and #intled news includes strategic budgeting, an India guide, growth in international schools, the global impact on student mobility from recent destination market changes in immigration policy, and the blame game in Canada continues.
- Without question, India is rising as a global power and as the #1 international education source market. How do you navigate the complex web of agents, schools, and students’ digital preferences to achieve success? Check out this Sinorbis guide to learn how.
- Generative AI tools made a big splash a year ago, but no one expected them to be perfect in those early days. A year later, the next iterations of these digital genies demonstrate how far they’ve come in and how much “smarter” they can be.
- In the latest data insights newsletter, Studyportals takes a deep dive into Canada’s changing international education landscape and the implications of the massive immigration regulation changes in key destination markets.
- A global market that many US colleges ignore, international schools, continues to grow as the appetite for international post-secondary education ratchets up. This ISC report tracks growth (up 8% in the last 5 years) and economic impact ($9 billion).
- Following last week’s discussion on budgets in international ed, this Terra Dotta e-book on strategic budgeting in internationalization should provide some extra resources to allow your efforts to realize future success.
- While many in international admissions circles have been firmly in the test-optional or test-blind camp for years, recent moves by prominent institutions have muddied the waters by adding test-flexible and test-required again. Ugh.
- For my colleagues on the study abroad side of international education, coming out of the pandemic has seen a rise in students going abroad. With global inflation, rising costs are scaring off perhaps those on the margins.
- If this doesn’t make you wake up and smell the global coffee, nothing will. “A third of?prospective students are ‘open to reconsidering’ their preferred study destinations following policy changes in several key countries, new research has shown.”
- What are the keys to a sustainable international recruitment strategy? According to QS, there are four: understanding reputation, matching reputation to key markets, meeting students where they are, and strengthening yield to enrollment.
- What does OPT feel like from an international student perspective? These two current Intead employees are great examples of how STEM-OPT has led to more permanent employment in the US and the challenges they encounter.
- This article shares the fastest-growing US student visa issuance countries (led by Kyrgyzstan), highlighting Kenya (up 58%), Ghana (up 52%), China (up 39%), and Hong Kong (up 38%).
- Australia - In what is becoming a more common phenomenon for very different reasons, Aussie unis have recently canceled offers of enrollment to international students as a result of government changes impacting visa processing and “genuine student test.”
- Australia - The government Down Under has a bold plan for education until 2050. For international education, the goal is to be more balanced and diversified, improve guardrails to prevent abuses and internationalize beyond major cities.
- Australia - Questions are being raised about whether China’s patriotic education law can be enforced among Chinese students studying at Australian universities. Most Down Under aren’t too worried but are concerned about those going to China.
- Canada - Stakeholders in Canada are partly blaming “quacks” who rip off students as well as improperly filled out forms for why African student applicants have study permit denial rates upward of 75%.
- Canada - Are international students in Canada feeling let down by the recent changes the government introduced? You betcha. This student’s story of the sacrifices he made really is unbelievable and probably not that far off most experiences.
- Canada - Amongst Canadian universities, none better represents the challenges of over-reliance on international student revenues driving unsustainable growth without understanding the consequences until it’s too late than Cape Breton U.
- Canada - Who is to blame for the problems that led to the Canadian government’s drastic measures introduced recently? There are plenty who should put their hands up to take responsibility, governments as well as public and private institutions.
- Canada - One province that attracts more international students in Canada than any other is set to be hit hard by the national government’s immigration actions. Ontario and its premier are expecting federal funding to offset expected losses.
- Netherlands - Universities in the Netherlands are to control the number of international students admitted to their institutions to comply with new government restrictions designed to preserve Dutch education and improve the housing shortage.
- UK - British universities are bracing for significant financial hardship in the wake of declining international student enrollments, with the early signs pointing to a larger-than-anticipated decline in the coming intakes.
- UK - This piece from Louise Nicol sheds important light on how significant an impact anti-immigration movements in key destination markets are for international students and are driving many institutions to scramble for solutions.
- UK - This University World News piece is significant for those concerned about the academic adjustment of international students to academic life on campus. The relationship between professor and student is a very challenging one to understand.
- UK - We never really talk much about the “hidden fees” that international students must pay to secure an education abroad. This PIE News article from a student perspective sheds some much-needed light on the subject.
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