WWEC May’23: News Impacting Global Education

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POPULAR STUDY DESTINATION UPDATES

Canada | Rated most popular study abroad destination

According to a global survey of 21,000 students from more than 100 countries, Canada was rated the most popular study-abroad country. Read more here.

  

United Kingdom | Restricts entry of family members of masters students

The Department for Education, the Home Office and the Treasury plan to prevent master’s students on one-year courses from bringing family members to the UK with them. Read more here.

United States | International student numbers remain below pre-pandemic levels

As per the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, 1,362,157 international students studied in the US on vocational (M-1) and academic (F-1) visas in the US in 2022, a 10% increase from the previous year but still lower than the pre-pandemic levels of 1,523,758 in the country. Read more here.

Australia | Plans to rewrite immigration systemAustralia’s federal government plans to rewrite Australia’s immigration system, with almost every visa category up for change, and a promise to tighten visa rules for international students. Read more here.

ASIA UPDATES

  • The Indian examination board Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared Class 12 results for 2023, with over 87.33% of students clearing the exams, a drop of 5.38% as compared to last year.
  • Vietnam seeks stronger educational cooperation with Northern Ireland to foster bilateral connections in education and trade.
  • As per the Korean Educational Development Institute, in response to the nation’s immigration service’s declaration, South Korea had reached its goal of hosting 200,000 overseas students. It enrolled 205,167 foreign students in March 2023.
  • The parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) makes several recommendations to the University Grants Commission, the higher education authority, to improve the quality of higher education in Sri Lanka.
  • Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of the United Kingdom (UK) for further cooperation in the higher education sector.
  • The Singapore Institute of Management inks an agreement with Jagannath International Management School to expand its footprint in India.

AFRICA UPDATES

  • upGrad, leading edtech in India, eyes regions like Africa, South-East Asia and Middle East, and Latin America to build a learner base for its Study Abroad programme.
  • A number of the Asian giant’s universities, including the prestigious state-owned Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), are keen to set up campuses on the African continent as soon as the Indian government publishes enabling regulations in April 2023. 
  • Campus France and the Nigerian government agency Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) signed a convention during the event to allow Nigerian students to benefit from a scholarship programme to study in French higher education institutions. 
  • As per the US ambassador to Angola, more than 100 young Angolans students, aged between 25 and 35 years old, have benefited, since 2014, from a scholarship in the United States of America (USA).
  • Barrick, the world’s second-largest gold miner, pledges $30 million to expand education infrastructure in Tanzania.
  • With 97 African universities in THE World University Rankings, up from four in 2012, Africa’s universities are climbing the world rankings.

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