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I listened to a colleague from Maiduguri University in Northeast Nigeria recount how, time after time, the campus had been attacked and partly destroyed by Boko Haram and other militants, with fatalities among students and staff alike; and how each time the university had rallied, rebuilt, and continued in its mission.
The potential attracted representatives from 16 universities across major study destinations including the US, UK, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia to visit the Himalayan country as part of a delegation led by Acumen under its Nepal Rising initiative. increase from the previous year.
The new campus will be located at Ain Shams University (ASU) in Cairo, offering accredited undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Exeter. It is one of Egypt’s top public universities, ranked 592 in QS’s World University Rankings 2025.
With the National Education Policy , introduced in 2020, promoting transnational education to establish India as a global hub of education, efforts are being made to attract international universities to the South Asian country. The delegation actively discussed establishing an offshore JHU campus in India.”
We are actively exploring ways to spread more awareness of this initiative via the Indian Embassies abroad through education fairs, webinars, and social media campaigns targeted at student communities in key countries, Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, chairman, University Grants Commission , told The PIE News.
The applications from 11 British, one French and one Cypriot institution were submitted to the Greek Ministry of Education on March 31, after regulatory reform allowing international universities to establish fully accredited branch campuses in Greece. operating as a non-state, non-for-profit university.
On the heels of the first Saudi-US HigherEducation Partnerships Forum, co-organised by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education, the US Embassy, and IIE, and held in Riyadh, The PIE sat down with Michael Ratney, US ambassador to Saudi Arabia to explore the evolving landscape of educational collaboration between the two nations.
by Maria-Ligia Barbosa In Latin America, highereducation has undergone intense transformation. In Argentina and Uruguay, the demand for highereducation was met by the public sector. However, there are relevant differences in dimensions such as governance, size, selectivity and educational offer.
But we know in today’s international education landscape that learners are able – and willing – to utilise their individual strengths and inner drive, and to develop capacity for empathy and cultural awareness – well before they apply to university. With more than $3.6
It is not news that the highereducation sectors relationship with international activity is strained, from recruiting students to delivering research and innovation partnerships with institutions overseas. Looking back to inform the future It is important to reflect and scrutinise how we got here.
The two organisations will work with Egypts Ministry of Education to create a new English-language curriculum to prepare secondary school students for an increasingly globalised world. The ministry considers this initiative a pivotal step toward achieving sustainable development goals in the education sector, he added.
The awarding of a licence from the University Grants Commission now paves the way for planning to progress for the University of Southampton Delhi NCR campus. “In In the 21st century, no university can be truly global without engaging with India,” said Mark E.
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. Finnish ambassador to India, Kimmo Lhdevirta. Reskilling is really needed here in India.
million Indian students studying abroad in 2024, making India one of the largest source markets, reports of fake acceptance letters and test scores have led to concerns among universities in major study destinations. Despite over 1.3 That one-hour session turned into a three-hour session,” said Jain.
India’s recent regulatory changes have opened up a “major platform for collaboration between countries”, the Indian government told UK universities participating in a trade mission this week. This is the largest highereducation delegation the UK government has taken to any country. There is a lot of space for growth,” he added.
How can tertiary education providers – universities, colleges, and others – remain relevant and deliver knowledge, skills and qualifications that meet societal needs and best prepare young people for the future, in a world where labour market requirements are undergoing profound changes?
. “The government’s efforts to restore the number of international students, which declined significantly due to the influence of Covid-19, are showing steady results,” Kuniko Takeda, deputy director of international affairs at Japan’s ministry of education, told The PIE News.
A Memorandum of Understanding between the United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of HigherEducation and Scientific Research (MoHESR) and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) has been signed in a bid to make it easier for highereducation institutions to be granted a license to open campuses in Dubai.
Taiwan’s government watchdog has accused three ministries of failing to protect overseas students from exploitation as the island sets out plans to attract 10,000 more international students over the next four years. Instead, students were forced to work to pay off debts to the institution for tuition and accommodation.
A comprehensive new plan aimed at helping students across Chile look after their mental health has been lauded by the country’s undersecretary for highereducation. Multiple government entities, including the ministry of education, the ministry of public health, and the University of Chile were involved in the launch.
The country hit a record of 370,000 international students in the 2022/23 academic year and is looking to target skilled workers and international graduates of its highereducation system to boost its economy. in the third quarter of 2023. “Germany is offering visas to students really quickly.”
Image: China’s Ministry of Education will no longer recognize online degrees from overseas colleges, per a Jan. The action was necessary to “maintain educational equity,” according to the statement. universities to provide online degrees in China,” Jenny J. but also in opportunities for U.S.
Japan’s Tsukuba University has opened the country’s first Japanese degree granting branch campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The campus – known as the School of Transdisciplinary Science and Design – is found within the University of Malaya and was officially opened during a ceremony on September 2, 2024.
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor David Law, Academic Director: Global Partnerships at Keele University. As part of this work, in September 2023 I joined a mission of Vice-Chancellors, Pro-VCs, and senior staff from 20 UK universities. The 2023 UK-China HigherEducation Forum was a major highlight.
A previous ministry of education aim from 2011 had hoped to host 200,000 university students by 2020, but this date was later revised. Various universities in Korea have begun to collaborate with universities in Vietnam.
Despite an increasingly repressive environment in Chinese universities, there continues to be a “huge gap” in scholarly research on queerness in Chinese academia, according to Cui Le, a sociologist at the University of Auckland who has made it his mission to tell the world about the country’s largely invisible gay scholars.
The country’s ministry of education said two years ago that it would be raising the international student quota for universities to 30,000 per year – it is not clear whether this target has been reached. Whether this number will exceed its 2021 quota amidst the war, however, is a different, more difficult question.
However, for Chinese applicants, overseas universities will further tighten scrutiny of their application materials, including the introduction of AI to detect generated content,” Doyle noted. I believe that clients who were involved must have had strong demand to get into the university and are aware of the action taken by the agencies.
It’s always so interesting to find out that despite our different contexts, we all encounter similar struggles when it comes to the internationalisation of highereducation and English-medium instruction. Like many who work in international education, my choice of career was fuelled by wanderlust and a curiosity to learn about others.
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The number of international students enrolling at universities in Russia is increasing despite negative publicity emanating from the country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Russian State Universities organisation Racus. Export of highereducation is our key activity. The number of those enrolling grew by 9.8%
Earlier this year, the government reversed a decision to stop offering “No Objection Certificates” , which are required by students going overseas for non higher-education programs, such as vocational training.
By the end of August, roughly two dozen countries—including the recent additions of India, Malaysia and Thailand—had received permission for their students to apply for a Chinese X1 study visa, according to the highereducation consultancy China Admissions. “The flights to China these days are less affordable.
The test is used to determine the eligibility of candidates for junior research fellowship, assistant professors and PhDs in Indian universities and was supposed to take place on June 18. “It Keeping up with international universities, Indian highereducation institutions can now hold admissions twice a year – in January and July.
There is a real sense of hunger for partnerships that are built into a “long-term” strategy, stakeholders said at a conference for leaders in highereducation. She urged on a wider scale that highereducation and TNE needed to be more purposeful in its goals in funnelling through students.
The digital campus – financially backed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research – seeks to break down language, technical and cultural barriers, and offer relevant information alongside comprehensive services. The initial test run is seeking to simplify the pathway to German universities for refugees from Ukraine.
The country’s power is in these statistics but also in its “ambitious” nature as a player on the global highereducation stage, explains Summer Xia, British Council country director for Indonesia and lead for Southeast Asia. Now, the university is looking more widely to Thailand and Vietnam. It offers rich diversity.
The Turkish German University in Istanbul has handed out 48 scholarships worth some €15,000 to students that were impacted by the recent earthquake in Turkey. ” Along with a fund for study materials, such as paper, books and computers, the university had initially sought to introduce 20 scholarships for the year.
The country’s ministry of education, in collaboration with the ministry of home affairs and ministry of external affairs, has launched a centralised digital platform for global students seeking highereducation in India.
After months of debate and opposition from many universities in the country, the Labour Party-run government will introduce fees for non-EU students. When it really mattered, neither the Socialist Left Party , the Labour Party nor the Center Party was willing to stand up for free highereducation,” she continued.
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Prospero de Vera, chairperson of the Commission on HigherEducation urged delegates to embrace “initiatives that are equitable, sustainable, and accessible”, arguing that “education is part of a collective responsibility”. These themes were woven throughout the breakout sessions of the conference.
This accreditation body evaluates and accredits colleges, universities, and academic programs to ensure they meet certain standards of quality and academic rigor. Let’s learn everything in detail about CAA in the UAE Ministry of education. CAA is UAE’s official highereducation quality assurance organization.
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