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

The PIE News

India is one of the target countries for our Talent Boost program , which aims at attracting students to Finnish universities and other institutions but also experts to Finnish companies, Lhdevirta told The PIE News. Reskilling is really needed here in India.

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Netherlands: a third of international grads stay to work

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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

The PIE News

“The Bill is called Balanced Internationalisation , but this government is bluntly chopping away at universities and universities of applied sciences, also cutting €293 million from the budget for the intake of international students,” said Caspar van den Berg, Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) president.

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

The PIE News

A director at a Dutch university has called the “cease and desist order” given to the country’s institutions on international student recruitment “a wake-up call”. In the meantime, he recounted, a letter that was sent to universities late 2022 has already asked them to halt international student recruitment until a solution can be found.

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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.

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

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Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. This blog entry is an exercise in thinking future-forward, brainstorming-fashion (so all caveats apply!),