Cornell and Harvard University, two of the most prestigious Ivy Leagues in the country are leading institutions when it comes to bringing in students from around the nation. Building a diverse student body is one of the most dominant missions for higher education institutions, and Ivy Leagues are no exception. Only 16% of Harvard’s class of 2026 consists of international students, according to the school’s admissions statistics. “To realize the community’s full promise, and to foster the personal intellectual transformation at the heart of our mission, we must also work affirmatively and collectively to advance a culture of belonging,” said…

A CBC Marketplace investigation into CDI College, one of Canada’s largest for-profit career colleges, has found a pattern of misleading practices being used to pressure would-be students into signing up for online programs that can cost upward of $20,000. Marketplace has documented some CDI admissions representatives misleading journalists posing as potential online students on accreditation, salary and job rates after graduation, as well as signing up unsuitable candidates and pressuring students to enrol. Higher education expert Prof. Glen Jones, from the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), calls Marketplace’s findings on the college “abysmal.”  “I think it is terrible,” Jones…

Immigrants have long come to Canada with hopes to fulfil the “Canadian Dream,” the promise that they will be welcomed with open arms and opportunities for a better life. Some international students now say the dream is dying. A global pandemic helped expose the cracks in the narrative: international students increasingly complain about the burdens of high tuition fees, social isolation, landlord harassment, and working precarious jobs where they face exploitation. And now a recession is looming.Canada’s reputation for being an immigrant-friendly country has muddled expectations regarding international students’ path to permanent residence. The immigration pipeline is often thought of…

The latest information on student visa processing, how to get applications processed faster, contacting INZ, Pathway Student Visas, and visas for family travelling with students are the topics covered in this month’s update from Immigration New Zealand.  Update on Student Visa processing*  Since New Zealand’s international borders reopened in August 2022, Immigration New Zealand (INZ) has received 12,259 student visa applications from international students outside New Zealand. We have decided 7,731 of these applications, with more than half of our decisions made in under four weeks and almost all decisions (95%) made within eight weeks.   *Figures current as at 10pm on 19…

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Ireland provides a two-year stay-back option for international students Image credit: shutterstock.com Ireland is a very popular destination for study-abroad among Indian students and over 5,000 students choose Ireland as their study-abroad destination in the last academic cycle. Engineering, Computing, Business, Nursing, and Social Sciences are some of the popular courses pursued by Indian students. “More recently there has been an increased interest in courses that focus on emerging technologies such as AI, Agri-Tech, Data Analytics, Fin-Tech and Cyber Security,” the Ireland government’s release read. admAjaxLoad(“/education/admissionbuddy/esi/right-block?page_info=%7B%22kwargs%22%3A+%7B%22tpl_extra_key%22%3A+%22_reg_otp%22%2C+%22domain_ids%22%3A+%5B%5D%2C+%22level%22%3A+%5B%5D%2C+%22exam_nid%22%3A+%22%22%2C+%22i_utm_source%22%3A+%22NDTV%22%2C+%22i_utm_medium%22%3A+%22embedded_form_newpage%22%2C+%22action_location%22%3A+%22apply%22%7D%2C+%22direct_rendering%22%3A+false%2C+%22is_ajax%22%3A+false%2C+%22multi_nids%22%3A+false%2C+%22dru%22%3A+false%2C+%22sticky%22%3A+false%2C+%22populate%22%3A+%22single_apply_button%22%2C+%22request_page%22%3A+%22%2Feducation%2Fover-5000-indian-students-choose-ireland-as-study-abroad-destination-ireland-government%22%7D”, “id_adm_ee0c3c3fb1e0448facf68b56a29eb32a”, 0); }); ]]> Ireland recently conducted an education fair in New Delhi where…

After five years of PhD work, Keerthiraju Ravichandran is finally nearing graduation from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Ravichandran, who is from India, is happy with his progress and excited by his future. But his doctoral programme posed obstacles that many of his colleagues never had to face. Whereas other students could focus on experiments and papers, Ravichandran had to expend huge amounts of time and mental energy on applying and reapplying for successive one-year visas to stay in the country. Each application took six to nine months to process, during which time he couldn’t travel to international conferences or…

Students from around the world are continually attracted to overseas education programmes offered by international universities. Destinations such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America, among others, have been popular study abroad destinations due to factors including world-class faculty, comprehensive research-based learning programmes, post-study work environments and the general living standards in these countries. A report by consulting firm Redseer on Higher Education Abroad estimates that the number of Indian students opting for higher education abroad grew from 440,000 in 2016 to 770,000 in 2019 and is set to grow to roughly 1.8 million by 2024. It…

As per the statistics released by the UK government Home Office, there were 127,731 student visas granted to Indian applicants in the year ending September 2022, which is an increase of 93,470 (+273%) compared to 2019 (34,261).Worker visas The data further indicates that Indian nationals also continue to be the top nationality granted ‘Worker’ visas, accounting for 39% of the total with 56,042 visas issued. This shows an increase by 26,490 (+90%) as compared to 2019 (29,552). Non-Russell group CAS In terms of Certificates of Acceptance for Study (CAS) used in main applications for study visas, which present the numbers…