UK universities must reform international recruitment needs before the Home Office returns for “round two” of restrictions, according to a former universities minister. The Home Office’s recent announcement that international students will be banned from bringing family members to the UK unless they are on postgraduate research courses caused considerable concern, particularly among those worried that more restrictions are to come. But Lord Johnson of Marylebone, speaking at a Westminster Higher Education Forum, said the sector did well to ensure that the measures were “as limited” as they were, because it would have been “considerably worse” had the two-year graduate route visa come under threat.…

UBS analysts led by Tim Plumbe said the decision was likely to pull annual net profit after tax and amortisation down by 14 per cent, leaving a $27 million hole in earnings.IDP told the ASX that the Canadian agency Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada had outlined on May 27 it would begin accepting results from four rival tests for students on their English language proficiency assessment from August 10. The tests are for prospective students from 14 countries including China, Brazil, Morocco, India, Pakistan and Vietnam, seeking a student visa.UBS said when a similar opening up of language testing occurred…

Keystone’s State of Student Recruitment 2023 surveyed 23,856 students – over half from Africa – and Canada’s popularity shot up by 29%. Some 16.1% chose it as their top country in which to study. A further 14.8% said the US was their top destination, 14.4% indicated the UK, while Germany and Australia were selected by 6% and 5.4%, respectively. When split into undergraduate and postgraduate, the US and the UK took the top spots with 20% and 18.2%, respectively. However, over three quarters of the respondents for the survey said that studying abroad is generally “too expensive”. Despite this figure, Adam Rennison, head of…

While some stakeholders indicated early AI conversation fatigue, particularly around ChatGPT, others asserted that the sector has just scratched the surface. Global engagement education technology provider Terra Dotta, announced plans to integrate generative AI into its global engagement platform. Discussing the new feature at NAFSA, the company said it will be applied to automate pre-determined education abroad and international education marketing communications processes. Terra Dotta proffered automation will “[streamline] administrative tasks”, freeing up time and resources of university global engagement offices, resulting in additional time for personalised student supports. Erik Larson, CTO of Terra Dotta, noted the often understaffed and under…

In contrast to their earlier long-term prognosis (with a shout-out to Newfoundland and Labrador): Last year 1.2m people moved to Britain—almost certainly the most ever. Net migration (ie, immigrants minus emigrants) to Australia is twice the rate before covid-19. Spain’s equivalent figure recently hit an all-time high. Nearly 1.4m people on net are expected to move to America this year, one-third more than before the pandemic. In 2022 net migration to Canada was more than double the previous record and in Germany it was even higher than during the “migration crisis” of 2015. Listen to this story. The rich world is in the middle of…

Foreign study hot spots turn up scrutiny as visa abuses surface | Mint

Julian Hill, Labor’s federal member for Bruce, last year alleged that Australia’s international education industry has devolved into a “ponzi scheme” by enticing foreign students with easy work rights and permanent residency.Hill argued that Australia’s generous work rights and the carrot of permanent residency were “being misused by agents in many parts of the world who are flogging our precious student visa as some kind of cheap, low rent work visa”.“We know that the incentive of a permanent visa to Australia is like a golden ticket from Willy Wonka’s chocolate bar”, he said.Hill’s view was backed up by Phil Honeywood,…

A lawyer working with former international students from India facing potential deportation from Canada, has argued that the phenomenon of agents in their home country providing fraudulent documentation should be considered organised crime and they should be extradited. Some of the former international students facing potential deportation from Canada at their indefinite protest site in the Greater Toronto Area. (Inder Singh) Toronto-based barrister and solicitor Sumit Sen is representing Karamjit Kaur, who is from the Jalandhar area, before Canadian authorities. He has also consulted with several other students who are mired in the ongoing cases over their original study permits…

Canada will give international students who have been victims of fraud a chance to support their case against deportation.This comes months after the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were found to be fake.Immigration minister Sean Fraser has said that the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) was actively investigating recent reports of fraudulent acceptance letters.”To be clear: Our focus is on identifying culprits, not penalizing victims. Victims of fraud will have an opportunity to demonstrate their situation & present evidence to support their case,” Fraser…