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International universities eye Nepal’s high student mobility

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Students are also looking beyond traditional fields like business and IT, exploring options in healthcare, engineering, and applied sciences, stated Sharma. Emphasising how Nepali students are now investing in quality education, Dwiraj Sharma, CEO, Alfa Beta explained how they are venturing into non-traditional courses.

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India a ‘target country’ for Finland’s Talent Boost program

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Of course the companies do a lot for their own workforces, I hope that Finnish vocational training institutes and universities of applied sciences develop more contacts with their Indian counterparts. By the end of September 2024, the Finnish Immigration Service had cancelled 264 permits, with 216 cases still awaiting processing.

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Netherlands: a third of international grads stay to work

The PIE News

Lucette Roovers, director of global engagement at Breda University of Applied Sciences , told The PIE the “stay rate” of international students has been a focal point of the ongoing international student debate in the Netherlands. Previously, only around 20% of international students did so.

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Netherlands to cut international student budget by €300m

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Representing 14 universities across the Netherlands, van den Berg said that the institutions were “very concerned” about the plans, which risk the Netherlands losing its leading position as a knowledge economy as well as decimating universities’ finances.

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Dutch recruitment ‘cease and desist’ a “wake-up call”

The PIE News

During the PIE Live Europe ’s European Panel of Presidents, Breda University of Applied Sciences’s director academy of tourism Perry Hobson talked about the difficult situation Dutch institutions have been put in through the ongoing discussion on recruitment of non-EU students. .

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Finland’s visa processing issues resulting in “bottleneck”

The PIE News

A survey of Finland’s universities of applied sciences has revealed that increasing numbers of students are finding themselves unable to enter the country due to visa issues. . This is not just a pandemic backlash,” she clarifies, talking to The PIE.

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Finland’s joint application sees record numbers

The PIE News

Applied sciences universities especially suffered, due to consulate backlogs in identification. This may be especially important to resolve with the biggest nationalities applying to Finland, according to the recent data, being Nigerian and Bangladeshi students. That only tells us about quantity, not quality.