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• 8th February 2012 UK wants student "entrepreneurs" to stay
  The UK has announced a new visa route for 2013 to encourage the "brightest and best" entrepreneurs to stay on in the country focusing on a quality over quantity approach to immigration.In a speech given last week by Immigration Minister, Damian Green, at the Policy Exchange, he outlined that in
• 8th February 2012 China crisis as numbers tumble
  AUSTRALIA is facing the most "challenging and volatile" environment in the $16 billion international student market for almost three decades, with enrolment numbers from China, Australia's biggest market, down for a second year by about 15 per cent.Plummeting Chinese enrolments, which once represented 25 per cent of Australia's international students,
• 7th February 2012 AILS launches website dedicated to homestay
  European study abroad network, the Agency for International Language Study (AILS), has launched a new website to promote its homestay language classes because of the increasing popularity of study in a teacher’s home.The site promotes the company’s total immersion programmes, in which participants are given private language classes by a
• 7th February 2012 EF courts job-seekers with four new schools
  It is also offering a special, nine-month study programme for accelerated “multilingual” learning. The EF Multi-Language Year, enables participants to choose two or three of EF’s 41 International Language Centers worldwide to create their own tailor-made study tour, learning up to three languages in a year.“For young people today, it’s
• 7th February 2012 Visa option paper puts onus on providers
  GROUPS of education providers who have a history of their international students not complying with immigration rules could find that their future students face higher hurdles in qualifying for a visa, according to a government discussion paper.To view the article in full, log-in to the The Australian here
• 6th February 2012 International students used as cash cows, says student federation head
  But after spending her early adult years living, working and studying in the city, the 25-year-old says she still feels unfairly pitted against her Canadian peers because of higher tuition fees."It’s been a rough ride," says Hunt, who’s been shelling out between $14,000 and $18,000 a year to study dance
• 6th February 2012 Bologna fails to deliver on uniform education
  After WWII study abroad programs were pushed as a means of encouraging international understanding and to “counteract the idiosyncrasies and the relative isolation of national systems of higher education," Ulrich Teichler writes in the new issue of the Journal of International Education.This ideal culminated in the 1999 Bologna Declaration, which
• 3rd February 2012 Hypocritical states just interested in cash cows
  States have become the battleground for international students' rights, with Queensland's sudden termination of school tuition fee exemptions merely the latest example of a state-sponsored "cash cow" approach.Financially anorexic state government departments across the country have targeted overseas students to help plug budget holes, with no consideration of the big-picture
• 3rd February 2012 Policies 'deter' overseas students
  Mrs Nargundkar's Education Access Australia had been one of the eight biggest providers of courses to overseas students.She said 2009 changes to immigration policy separating education from immigration, and more stringent student visas had left the schools in limbo.While the changes were designed to stop unethical providers, she said they
• 2nd February 2012 USA winning favour among the Swiss
  The UK was still the most popular destination for the Swiss study abroad market last year, but the USA is catching up quickly, according to the latest research from the national education agency association.The findings come in a report from the Swiss Association of Language Travel Agents (SALTA) released last

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  International student futures in Australia: a human rights perspective on moving forward to real action
  
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  International Students Strategy for Australia
  Commonwealth and State and Territory governments recognise and value the important contribution that international students bring to Australian society, and understand that all governments are responsible for aspects of the international student experience. The International Students Strategy for A...
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  International students positive about Australian education
  New research released shows international students' level of satisfaction with Australian education is on the rise. Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed the National Survey of International Students Studying in Australia report, showing the majority of international s...
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  Study in Australia - the Australian education system. Information for overseas students who are considering studying in Australia - Austrade
  The information contained in this section of the site is for overseas students who are considering studying in Australia. Information on other sections of our website include Australia's education capability and industry and country information for Australian education providers.
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  20th ISANA International Education Association Conference Proceedings
  The 20th ISANA International Education Conference was held in Canberra, ACT, in December 2009. Refereed and non-refereed papers, as well as workshop presentations are available from the site.
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  Federal and State Government responsibilities in support of international students
  The attractiveness of Australia as a destination for international students is finally being recognised as an issue of national importance. Australia has had a charmed run on the growth of international enrolments over the last 10 years. The time has come for Governments both State and Federal to ...
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  OECD Feasibility Study for the International Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO)
  This OECD initiative aims to assess learning outcomes on an international scale by creating measures that would be valid for all cultures and languages. Between ten and thirty-thousand higher education students in over ten different countries will take part in a feasibility study to determine the bo...
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  Good practice principles for English language proficiency for international students in Australian Universities – final report
  In 2008, the Australian Government provided funding of $100,000 to the Australian University Quality Agency (AUQA) to complete a project to develop good practice principles for English language proficiency. The report lists ten principles of good practice, split into themes, with an explanation of e...
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  Victoria Shows Off E-learning Overseas
  Eleven Victorian organisations have headed to the UK to show off their wares at Londons education technology show, BETT 2006.
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  Students Plug Into iLectures
  For years, tech-savvy professors have made recordings of lectures available on the Internet. But the University of Michigan dental school is among a wave of colleges now offering lectures in the MP3 compressed digital data files that make classes portable. The question is - Do digital downloads of l...