WWEC Feb’23 Wrap-Up: News Impacting Global Education
POPULAR STUDY DESTINATION UPDATES
Canada | Extends work permit for visitors till 2025
Canada extends temporary policy to facilitate work permit applications for foreign nationals who are already in Canada as visitors. The policy expected to expire in February 2023, has now been extended for another two years. Read more here.
Australia | Signs a deal with India to recognise qualifications
To ease the mobility of students and professionals between the two countries, Australia inks a deal with India for mutual recognition of educational and skill qualifications. Read more here,
United States | Aims to reduce visa wait times for Indians
The US is amping up its efforts to reduce visa wait times for Indians, including moving workers from other departments around the world to visa offices in India. Read more here.
Germany | Eligible students to enter tertiary education dropped by 2.1% last year
According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of people qualifying for higher education in German institutions drops among Germans but rises among international students. Read more here.
ASIA UPDATES
- Two Australian government universities, Deakin University and the University of Wollongong will be the first foreign education institutions to set up campuses in GIFT City, Gujarat, India.
- Thailand’s Higher Education Ministry instructs universities to verify the sources of all research papers produced by academics to comply with academic ethics.
- Xiamen University Malaysia announces 100 scholarships to attract bright Bangladesh students with solid academic records.
- Japan announces new immigration pathways starting in April to target high-income earners and graduates of high-ranking foreign universities.
AFRICA UPDATES
- According to figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigerians spent $1.38 billion on international education from January 2022 to September 2022, much lower than the same time frame a year prior.
- According to Campus France, students from Sub-Saharan Africa are being recruited in their numbers, and it is expected that 430,000 outward mobile students will swell and double by 2050.
- Rwanda aims to accelerate digitalisation in schools by connecting about 3,000 schools to the internet, aiming for at least 1,500 schools by the end of next year.
- As per the UNESCO-African Union Africa titled Education in report, enrolment in African tertiary education has increased almost 10 times over the past five decades, but demand still outpaces the supply.
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