The Student Experience Survey, run by the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching and known as Australia’s most comprehensive student survey, showed that the ratio of international students saying they had a positive experience rose to 74.4% from a low of 63% who said the same in 2020. The survey received a total of 52,316 valid responses from international students – a 33.6% response rate. The research found that the rating gap that has typically seen international undergraduate students rate their experiences lower than their domestic peers narrowed in 2022 to “the closest they have ever been”. “International students have historically rated aspects of their higher education experience…

The changes see sustainability, employment outcomes and international research network factored in the rankings, as well as recalibrating the weighting of certain existing factors. This means the QS World Rankings, which features 1,500 institutions across 104 locations, is now the only one of its kind to emphasise both employability and sustainability. The reason for the amendments is to “closely align” its flagship rankings with the priorities of Gen Z and Alpha who are “increasingly socially conscious students”, said Ben Sowter, senior vice president, QS. The decision to include Sustainability came after QS launched its inaugural stand alone Sustainability Rankings for 2023.…

“An international student doing a university degree would take three years to do the course, then would need a temporary graduate visa, get relevant work experience, then go on a temporary entry visa which would have much higher and harder levels of requirements. And after three years on that, then they might get permanent residency.“Why would I do all that when I could do a six-week course for very little money and have permanent residency in two years?”Under the aged care industry labour agreement, workers can be nominated by their aged care employer if they have remained in a job…

CGN Live: College – College Admission in the Age of AI Featured Experts:· Ashley Pallie, Director of Undergraduate Admissions, Caltech· Kevin Roose, Tech Columnist, New York TimesHost: Brennan Barnard: Director of College Counseling, Khan Lab SchoolOverview: While much of the early reaction to ChatGPT has centered on the impact of AI-driven admission essays, the topic is so much deeper than that. AI poses both benefits and disadvantages in the admissions process. We’ll dive into this fast-developing topic with an interactive Q&A focussed on helping students and their supporters understand:- How will it change the way applications are evaluated?- What’s to be…

As a student of modern languages back in the day, I was lucky to spend my ‘Year Abroad’ as a teaching assistant near Frankfurt in Germany, before going to Berlin as an Erasmus student during the third year of my PhD. My early research career was thoroughly international too, having received a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake postdoctoral research in Canada for a year, before being funded by the Berlin Parliament for another project back in the German capital. My international education and research experience is a major part of what has shaped me, and it is what drives me as…

The PRISMS Modernisation Project Technical Group Presentation is now available on the PRISMS Modernisation website  – 27/06/2023PRISMS Modernisation Project – Technical Working Group meeting 3 Presentation is now available On Thursday 22nd June 2023, The Department of Education (DE) and The Department Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) hosted the third in a series of public information sharing webinars for the PRISMS Modernisation Project. The slides for this presentation are now available on the PRISMS Modernisation Website, and can be accessed here. Questions asked during the presentation will be added to the frequently asked questions page in due course.   Kind regards, …

During the EdTechX summit, held at Tobacco Dock in London on June 22, CEO and co-founder Benjamin Vedrenne-Cloquet said that while strides have been made, the last 10 years have only been a “warm-up” era. “The edtech we know today is very much in its infancy. In a way, we’re waiting for our 5G moment in edtech, 10 years is also a very short investment cycle,” Vedrenne-Cloquet told delegates. “[In the current climate] it’s really hard to get back in with generous investors. In edtech, all of them are being burned by what they call the great crash. It’s been…

  The International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) announces the ‘Help Australia Thrive!’ campaign. The campaign shares the essential contribution of international education to Australia’s economic and cultural development. It shares true stories of international students pairing with Australian businesses and communities to enrich our economic and cultural life. International education is Australia’s fourth-highest export generating industry, and the largest that doesn’t rely on mining natural resources. In 2019, the sector delivered over $40 billion to the Australian economy and supported over 240,000 Australian jobs. Enrolment figures for 2023 show a strong post-COVID recovery. “International education isn’t a commodity. It…

Over three months after the unearthing of a scam of ‘fake offer letters’ from Canadian colleges, the main accused, Brijesh Mishra, who had duped hundreds of students by providing them with fake offer letters, was arrested by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on June 23.The scam came to light in mid-March this year when hundreds of Indian students, primarily Punjabi, reported that they were facing deportation from Canada due to the fake offer letters provided to them by a Jalandhar-based travel agent, Brijesh Mishra, running a firm called M/S Education Migration Services.Mishra, who originally hails from Darbhanga in Bihar,…