WWEC May’23 Wrap-Up: News Impacting Global Education
POPULAR STUDY DESTINATION UPDATES
United Kingdom | Many foreign students will lose right to bring family to UK
Last year, the country processed 135,788 visas to dependents of international students, nearly nine times the 2019 figure. As a part of new immigration curbs, foreign postgraduate students on non-research courses will no longer be able to bring family members to the country. Read more here.
Canada | Introduces faster temporary resident visa for dependents
Canada introduces faster temporary resident visa (TRV) processing and more considerate application measures for spouses and dependents to process most applications within 30 days. Read more here.
Germany | Job prospects continue to attract students to the country
As per the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), job prospects in Germany after graduation remain the top deciding factor for more than three-quarters of the 13,871 international students surveyed (76 per cent). Read more here.
Australia | Universities ban Indian students from certain states
To address the surge in visa fraud, two more Australian institutions, the Federation University in Victoria and Western Sydney University in New South Wales, instructed education agents to no longer recruit students from Indian states such as Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Read more here.
ASIA UPDATES
- According to the Japan Association of Overseas Studies (JAOS), members in 2022, five times more Japanese students were studying abroad than the previous year. JAOS surveyed 40 education agents to estimate the number of Japanese students studying abroad.
- According to recent government statistics of Pakistan, 1.58 million students were admitted into numerous universities in Pakistan in 2017-2018, 1.86 million in 2018-2019 and estimated 1.9 million students in 2019-2020.
- 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.
- India’s Union Minister of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan, proceeds on a three-day visit to Singapore today to strengthen existing ties and explore the possibility of widening the scope of bilateral engagement in education and skill development between the two countries.
- Both Korean universities and the government are turning to countries abroad to recruit new students, with Vietnam being a big focus.
AFRICA UPDATES
- The University of Cape Town (UCT) remains the best university in Africa and has been ranked 267th worldwide, up three places from last year, by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) in their 2023 Global 2000 list.
- Universities in East Africa need to recruit more than 35,500 lecturers to meet the desired student-to-teacher ratio (STR) in various subject areas, and an even higher number of faculty to have the ideal number of teaching staff in their lecturing halls and laboratories.
- The recently introduced policy by the UK to limit family visas for a few international students is expected to affect students from various African nations, including Nigeria.
- With eight laureates chosen during its 2nd edition, the programme of “Partnerships with African higher education” doubled its network, including now 14 African higher education institutions and 35 French institutions.
- The Ethiopian Ministry of Education has revealed that only four schools in Ethiopia have met the Ministry’s rigorous standards classified as “high” following an extensive evaluation conducted on 47,000 schools nationwide
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