NEW DELHI: Indian nationals have shown the greatest appetite for investment migration in the world — whereby wealthy investors acquire alternative residence or additional citizenship in exchange for making a substantial contribution to the host country, shows data from the Henley Global Citizens Report released by Henley & Partner. The past two years have seen three Cs driving wealth and investment migration: Covid, climate change, and cryptocurrency. In 2022, a fourth C has abruptly emerged: conflict in Europe. The report revealed that Indian nationals topped the charts for enquiries received for investment migration by the firm in 2021 by a…

University career services need to be “completely accessible and representative”, while institutions should do more to ensure international students receive the right information about available support before they arrive in the UK, according to Noleen Hammond Jones, international career manager at Lancaster University. “Evaluation, collaboration and really hearing the student voice” are crucial if students are to feel supported, according to Jones, with the journey being “massively overwhelming for students”. “Many have been told that good grades equal good jobs, so even though employability is the top reason they choose their institution, many of them aren’t thinking about it at that stage,”…

With worldwide vaccination now at an advanced stage and key flight paths opening up at affordable prices, there is an understandable appetite for international recruiters to return to their markets in person, reestablish key relationships with schools and agents and meet students face-to-face once again. “We are seeing a significant surge in demand for participation in our physical student recruitment events across all regions,” Claire Whittingham, managing director at QS Digital & Events told The PIE. “The world is opening up and confidence is returning for university admissions teams to travel and meet talented prospective students. “Having successfully pivoted the…

Published on April 4th, 2022 at 09:00am EDT Canada offers an open work permit to foreign nationals who are waiting for a decision on their inland spousal or common-law sponsorship application. The Spousal Open Work Permit (SOWP) specifically provides inland sponsorship applicants with the opportunity to work while their immigration application is processing. The following are among the major benefits of getting a SOWP: Sponsor your spouse for Canadian immigration Work in Canada while you wait The SOWP allows spousal sponsorship applicants to stay in Canada while they wait for a decision on their immigration application. It can take Immigration,…

Tribune News Service Sukhmeet Bhasin Bathinda, April 2 The three Canadian colleges — M College in Montreal, CDE College in Sherbrooke, and CCSQ College in Longueuil — which were shut abruptly after collecting millions of dollars in tuition fees and filing for creditor protection in January — have now reopened after a Toronto-based education group purchased these. Paid Rs 8 Lakh, but papers rejected After attending online classes for 18 months and paying Rs 8.73 lakh as fee, my study visa was rejected last year. We have been staging protest for continuation of our studies, but nobody is offering us…

70% of international student respondents who chose the US as their study destination did so because of the country’s perceived high quality of education. PHILADELPHIA, PA, UNITED STATES, March 29, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Increasingly positive sentiment toward the United States and perceptions that it provides the highest quality of education globally is driving an increasing numbers of students to choose the US as their study destination. Canada remains the number one destination of choice for students with 26% of all respondents stating it was their first-choice destination. However, this was followed by the USA (20%) and then UK and Australia…

Short on time? Here are the highlights: Education New Zealand has announced that new applications for its ENZ Recognised Agency Status programme will remain on hold until later this year However, all agents currently in the programme will have their status protected until December 2022 Education New Zealand (ENZ) has announced that agencies that currently have ENZ Recognised Agency status will have that status extended until December 2022. “COVID-19 has continued to impact us all for much longer than anticipated, and with the New Zealand border remaining closed to most, ENZ Recognised Agencies are still unable to meet the points…

Listen to an audio version of this story For more audio from The Walrus, subscribe to AMI-audio podcasts on iTunes. BIBIPUR The Singh Family home is a one-storey building of brick and cement on one of the main streets in Bibipur, a village of 1,000 in Punjab, northern India. The house has cracks in its walls and a roof of wood and mud that leaks during monsoon season. It was built about sixty years ago, and every decade or so since, whenever government workers have repaved the road outside the house, they’ve simply added another layer of asphalt on top…

The Shadowy Business of International EducationNicholas Hune-BrownThe Walrus Hune-Brown’s cover story for the September 2021 issue of The Walrus was an investigation into the world of international students, whose numbers in Canada have tripled in the last decade, bringing $21 billion into the economy—more than auto parts or lumber. The system is quietly transforming post-secondary institutions, which have become dependent on their tuition. Many of us are aware of the stereotype of the well-off young international student, usually from mainland China, paying their way into top educational institutions. But this stereotype is now entirely divorced from reality. In 2019, 34 percent of the…