WWEC Feb’23: News Impacting Global Education
POPULAR STUDY DESTINATION UPDATES
Canada | Number of study permits surges in recent years
As per the recent data released by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Canada welcomed a record 551,405 international students from 184 countries in 2022. In addition, there were 807,750 international students holding valid study permits as of December 31st, 2022, another all-time high number. Read more here.
United Kingdom | Plans to cut the time international students can stay post studies
The United Kingdom’s Home Minister plans to reduce the time international students can stay in the UK after completing their studies from two years to 6 months before they find a skilled job to obtain a work visa. Read more here
Australia | Average rent for purpose-built student accommodation surges
Due to the demand from international students, the average rent for purpose-built student accommodation surged by nearly 8% last year in Canada and Australia. Read more here
Germany | Considers relaxing rules amid labor shortages
According to the data, Germany must fill around two million job vacancies across different sectors. Hence, the authorities are considering relaxing some of the rules for migrants and foreigners to fill job positions. Read more here.
ASIA UPDATES
- As per the Union Minister of State of Education, 7,50,365 Indian students pursued education abroad in 2022, a 69% increase compared to 2021, when 4,44,553 students went abroad to study.
- Indonesia’s state universities offering free learning are open to admitting new students. This is the first cohort to take the new national university admission test called SNBT, also called ‘test-based national selection’. The test aims to move away from rote learning and improve university access for less-privileged students.
- India offers 200 fully-funded scholarships for Sri Lankans for studies in prestigious universities across different subject domains such as medicine, fashion designing, law and others for the 2023-2024 academic session.
- The U.S. Embassy in the Philippines invites applications from senior high school (grade 11) students to join the 2023 U.S. Embassy College Prep Program. The program aims to provide personalized mentorship and support to young Filipinos interested in applying to universities in the United States.
- Vietnamese and Dutch universities sign a memorandum to strengthen partnerships in education, training, applied research and exchange of lecturers, students and PhD students.
AFRICA UPDATES
- Kent State University, the USA-based higher learning institution and the University of Rwanda (UR) inaugurated a center in Rwanda. The collaboration aims to offer different programs, including aeronautical engineering.
- Kenya’s Education Cabinet Secretary urges public universities to reduce reliance on tuition fee collections and government funding alone and seek new modes of funding to keep themselves afloat.
- According to Campus France’s new report, the number of internationally mobile Sub-Saharan African students has grown by 21% over the past five years. This mobility rate is now much higher than that in other world regions, which is 4.8% versus the 2.7% world average.
- The devaluation of the Egyptian pound against the US dollar has made many students worry about the increase in tuition fees.
- Tunisia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research signs a cooperation agreement with the Mauritanian Ministry of higher education, research, information and communication technologies.
- MTN Uganda partners with the Ministry of Education and Sports and Continuum Financial Group to launch an e-learning platform called ULEARN. It is a self-paced e-learning platform for teachers and teacher educators countrywide that can be accessed at zero data costs via the MTN network.
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