WWEC Nov’22 Wrap-Up: News Impacting Global Education
POPULAR STUDY DESTINATION UPDATES
United Kingdom | Aims to restrict the number of international students
Foreign students wanting to pursue education in Britain may be barred unless they study at top universities. This move comes after the UK’s Prime Minister mulls a crackdown on international students to curb immigration. Read more here.
Ireland | Gains popularity among Indian students
As per the data released by the Ireland government, over 5,000 Indian students chose Ireland as their study destination in the previous academic cycle, with engineering, computing, business, nursing, and social sciences emerging as popular study courses. Read more here.
Germany | Emerges as preferred study destination in Europe
As per the Indian government’s statistics, close to 1.6 lakh Indian students chose European countries to pursue higher studies, with Germany emerging as the most attractive study destination with approx. 35,000 Indian students in undergraduate and graduate studies. Read more here.
Canada | To increase program capacity of International Experience Canada
The Canadian government to expand the applicant pool of its International Experience Canada (IEC) program for the upcoming year by 20%. Read more here.
ASIA UPDATES
- To secure the future of the youth, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan recognizes the country’s first entrepreneurial higher education institute, Extreme Commerce College (ECC).
- To facilitate research on global challenges, improve the globalisation of Thai universities and elevate their focus on development issues, universities in Thailand and the United Kingdom collaborate as a major consortium of institutions.
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) launches the Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS) to forge ahead in the science behind analysing biological molecules.
- Colleges and universities in the Philippines will no longer be allowed to run fully-online classes starting next semester unless given specific clearance by the Commission on Higher Education.
- Bangladesh is looking to attract more international students into the Gulf with cheaper tuition fees.
AFRICA UPDATES
- Tanzania’s Higher Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) closes the seven-day appeal window, where a minimum of 32,777 students have submitted their appeals related to loan allocation concerns to fund their following academic year studies.
- The European Union welcomes applications for the 2023 Erasmus+ (EU’s flagship programme for education, training, youth and sport) postgraduate scholarship programme, with an aim to extend higher education opportunities to young Nigerian graduates.
- Zimbabwe’s Finance minister Mthuli Ncube allocates ZW$787,8 billion (US$1.2 billion) in the 2023 national budget to the education sector, an 18.5% increase. However, the allocation still needs to meet expectations.
- Algeria’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research adopts a “zero paper” policy; and decrees all university theses, research, and documentation should be submitted via modern technologies.
- The 2022 Open Doors Report shows that close to 4,916 Ghanaian students studied at U.S. colleges and universities during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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