According to Nancy Caron, media relation advisor for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the significant increase is due in part to the introduction of the “temporary residency pathway” Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel. It has the goal of bringing as many Ukrainians to Canada as possible. In the UK, the Home Office has said that it is prioritising visas under the Ukraine Family Scheme and Homes for Ukraine applications, which it says has led to student visa processing time delays. Current study permit processing times are at 12 weeks, but IRCC has processed 175,616 study permit applications from January to April 2022,…

The IIE Spring 2022 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange gave fresh insight on in-person student mobility to and from the US, including support to current prospective international students affected by Covid-19 and the Ukraine crisis. The number of institutions recording an increase in applications was a marked increase from previous years. In 2020/21, 22% said they’d received more applications, with 52% indicating fewer applications. The survey shows that US institutions are recovering from the drop in international applications during Covid-19. However, 12% of respondents still said they’d received fewer application in 2022/23. “US colleges and universities remain committed to increasing…

Just to highlight this, colleges and universities in the US spent over $2.2bn on advertising in 2019, but these budgets rarely get allocated to one crucial segment of the market – international students. If institutions around the world don’t do something to change this soon, they are going to miss the bus. At Platty, we continually have marketing meetings with universities, colleges and government agencies and one major trend keeps appearing: when it comes to domestic marketing and recruitment, higher ed marketing departments are power houses. They have large budgets, hire creative agencies and staff to support them and have…

Harvard University. California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois are the top five destinations for Indian students pursuing higher education in the US.Home to some of the top universities in the world including Harvard, MIT, University of California, Cornel University, UT Austin, University of Chicago and Northwestern University, these destinations are a top draw among Indians.= 768 && (adKey.indexOf(“Moneycontrol”) != -1) && (adKey.indexOf(“Moneycontrol_Mobile_WAP”) = 768 && (adKey.indexOf(“MC_ENG_DESKTOP”) != -1 ) && (adKey.indexOf(“MC_ENG_PWA”) < 0) ){ setTimeout(function() {googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("MC_ENG_PWA/MC_ENG_PWA_NEWS/MC_ENG_PWA_ECONOMY_AS/MC_ENG_PWA_ROS_NWS_ECO_AS_ATF_300") });}, 2000); }if (width An analysis of the official international student flow to the US shows that, while more than 27 percent…

Tribune News Service Patiala, June 22After garnering huge success for a Punjabi comedy-drama web series ‘Yaar Jigree Kasooti Degree’— Troll Punjabi, one of Punjab’s most popular YouTube channels, is all set to take the audience on a laughter ride again with its new comedy web series ‘Yaar Chale Bahar.’The makers of the upcoming web series along with its star cast launched the title track ‘Yaar Chale Bahar’ during a press meet held at a hotel in Patiala on Wednesday. The song is sung by a renowned Punjabi singer and lyricist, Gur Sidhu, whose recent track ‘Bamb Aagya’ was his most…

The worries are pressing as concessions introduced during Covid-19 allowing international students to study from overseas until they obtain their visas come to an end on June 30. According to Gary Davies, pro vice-chancellor for student recruitment and business development at London Metropolitan University, the government’s policy to keep the borders open during the pandemic gave UK higher education a considerable advantage over international competition. “We are in real peril of squandering that advantage if UKVI don’t allocate enough Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies to institutions and can’t scale up to cope with the demand to issue visas this summer,” he warned. Institutions with…

Would you ignore a $433 billion market? That’s how big our market is set to reach by 2030 and marketing in higher education has a massive role to play. Just to highlight this, colleges and universities in the US spent

Short on time? Here are the highlights: The goal of ALTO’s guidance is to help agents and educators to develop agreements in which “each acknowledges and accepts their reciprocal commitments to work as true partners” The guidelines also serve students with recommendations for how to protect them should a professional dispute arise between educators and agents ALTO offers a related mediation service to educators and agents whose agreements state that both parties agree to adhere to the organisation’s Best Practice Guidelines The use of education agents as a major element of schools’ and universities’ international student recruitment has increased over…

In this episode of our continuing podcast series, recorded live at ICEF ANZA in Adelaide, ICEF’s Craig Riggs (editor of ICEF Monitor) and Martijn van de Veen (vice-president of business development) discuss the latest developments in our sector, with a special focus on the outlook for Chinese outbound and some of the latest study trends for European study destinations. They are joined by an expert panel for a feature discussion on the reopening of two other key destinations: Australia and New Zealand. The panelists include Brett Blacker, the CEO of English Australia, and Geneviève Rousseau Cung, partnerships manager for Education…