GLOBAL   15 May 2022 More than 1,500 participants will gather in Barcelona, Spain, for the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, to chart a renewed vision for higher education in the next decade. The conference, running from Wednesday 18 May to Friday 20 May, will launch a global conversation to “reshape ideas and practices in higher education to ensure sustainable development for the planet and humanity”, UNESCO says, and to create a common roadmap for higher education to 2030. How higher education can be adapted to global and local challenges, such as sustainable development, will be high on the agenda.…

AUSTRALIA In an April issue of The Conversation (Australia), the veteran higher education commentator Gavin Moodie casts his critical eye over the higher education policies of both major political parties in Australia. It’s a forensic, albeit constrained, analysis that draws a number of stark conclusions, namely, that successive governments have repeatedly cut funding to universities, made humanities courses more expensive for students, and privileged more ‘practical’ vocational courses. Despite some rather modest election campaign promises relating to regional universities, Moodie notes that the prevailing picture as far as Coalition policies are concerned, especially in relation to funding, remains grim. Indeed,…

UNITED KINGDOM The commercial education sector has changed beyond recognition in the last 10 years. The explosion of aggregators onto the scene, the emergence of outsourcing of universities’ overseas operations and the proliferation of pathway programmes globally are all manifestations of this change. This huge expansion in both activity and organisations has culminated in a talent grab, with commercial organisations on the hunt for those within higher education who can facilitate the growth of their businesses globally.There has been a growth in high-powered advisers and advisory boards with ApplyBoard, Leverage Edu and others tapping higher education think tank leaders, government…

This blog was written by former Universities Minister the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP. It is adapted from a speech delivered via video link from the UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly in Brussels to a roundtable event organised by London Higher and Oxford International Education Group in May 2022.I very much hope that higher education and research will be part of our dialogues for the future – and will do all I can personally to impress upon the UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly the importance of shared partnership, collaboration and exchange. Indeed, the last time I was in Brussels, back in May…

TheIndia Australia Business & Community Alliance (IABCA), supported by Investment NSW and Austrade, now in its 9th year was a reminder of the opportunity that exists for Australian public diplomacy to utilise its domestic business diaspora strategically to advance its foreign policy and trade interests. And the opportunity for Indian public diplomacy to capitalise on the Australian Indian diaspora to globalise its development agendas. Affirming that the best is yet to come. Speaking about the IABCA partnership, Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, Tourism and Sport, and Western Sydney, Hon Stuart Ayres MP said: “The partnership the NSW Government shares…

The death of an Indian student in Toronto last month made international headlines, but while Kartik Vasudev’s story ended in tragedy, his parents’ sacrifices offer a glimpse into the hardships that many international students and their families face to achieve the dream of a future in Canada.Vasudev’s father, Jitesh Vasudev, told CBC News he and his wife spent their entire life savings and mortgaged their house to take out a loan of $50,000, just to afford the first year of his son’s education in Canada, before he was shot and killed.  “The only mistake of my innocent child was that…

Play digs into tediousness of Canadian immigration process – New Canadian Media Source

“Where else should we be?” This question comes up consistently in our workshops, webinars, and client conversations, The reality: you’ve been wanting to diversify your recruitment efforts for years. Until the pandemic and the latest global political wrangling made recruiting from China problematic, your leadership wouldn’t listen. Now they will and they’re wondering why you hadn’t diversified earlier.  China and India have always been safe bets for international student recruitment. Of the nearly 1 million international students in the US, 34.7% are from #1 student sender China and 18.3% from #2 India, per the latest Open Doors data. #3 South…

On 12 May 2022, the Government of Western Australia handed down the State’s budget for 2022-23. It includes funding of just over A$40 million to drive the growth of Western Australia’s international education sector in the wake of the pandemic. The Minister for International Education, David Templeman, said: International education is an important economic sector for Western Australia and the McGowan Government is strongly committed to supporting the industry as it continues to reconnect with international partners. According to the Minister “re-engagement of the international education agent network” is a priority area. Overseas education agents who enrol international students in…