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International education news: April 2011 Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers Anger at wait on student visas Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students Macquarie University facing looming China crisis Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy Asia: Can the private sector boost participation? Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000 Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones Chinese eye other options Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy Wellings to leave UK for Australian post A crisis in international education in Australia Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution 'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West Chill goodbye to our Indian summers Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students Overseas student numbers dwindle West meets East with new Asian campuses Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East Bribery charges laid over language tests The trouble with homes away from home Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution Following the lead of US universities Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector Overseas student intake falls While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased international demand Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns Soft marking net may be cast wider 'It's like we are a different class of people here' 939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships The show MUST go on China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy Doubts over student qualifications Immigration group slams overstayer ruling Australian and New Zealand Higher education resources: ACUMA Incorporated Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News April 28 2011 The Higher Education Ministry on Thursday suggested that doctorate degree (PhD) be made the basic requirement for lecturer post at all public institutions of higher learning in the country.
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Its deputy minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, said this was necessary to achieve the 75 per cent lecturers with Phd in research universities and 40 per cent at other universities.... Full article: http://goo.gl/jecvB Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers BBC, UK April 28 2011 Campus extremism is a "serious problem" that threatens UK security, a group of MPs and peers has said. There are "grave concerns" students are being radicalised in British universities, according to a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hWbio Anger at wait on student visas Adelaide Advertiser May 03 2011 BUSINESS SA says we are losing foreign students because it is taking three months to approve visas. Chief executive officer Peter Vaughan has written to the Federal Government to complain that an overseas student seeking a study visa in Australia must wait up to 12 weeks while an applicant.... Full article: http://goo.gl/tMF2l Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market The Sydney Morning Herald April 30 2011 THE surging dollar is alarming Australian universities facing a drop in international student numbers. With the Aussie breaching $US1.09 this week on its way to a 30-year high, currency traders are warning of the toll on education. There are about 620,000 international students in Australia, about 39 per cent of whom are in higher education.... Full article: http://goo.gl/aBAcG Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor Times Higher Education April 28 2011 The division between academics and university administrators persists despite attempts to bring the two camps closer together, an international study suggests. Maree Conway, former president of the Association for Tertiary Education Management in Australia.... Full article: http://goo.gl/AJjmV
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Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students Media release: Senator the Hon Christopher Evans April 27 2011 The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed a court decision to fine a Victorian employer $150 000 for exploiting international students. After a successful prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman, Melbourne Magistrate’s Court also ordered the operators of the two 7-Eleven stores in Melbourne and Geelong to pay the students.... Full article: http://goo.gl/a9agq Macquarie University facing looming China crisis The Australian April 27 2011 MACQUARIE University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz has admitted his institution will face a funding crisis next year if forecasts for falling Chinese student enrolments are accurate. Immigration officials have signalled visa applications from China are down 20 per cent, but education industry insiders believe the slump could be.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hN8my Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy University World News April 24 2011 Universities around Asia watched with envy as Singapore's Nanyang Technological University received a US$120 million donation from the Lee Foundation early this year - the largest amount from a private donor received by a single institution in Singapore - and when Lei Zhang from China donated US$8,888,888 (eight is a lucky number) to Yale University in.... Full article: http://goo.gl/77fR8 Asia: Can the private sector boost participation? University World News April 24 2011 Governments in many developed countries such as Australia, the US and the UK initiated public management reforms in the 1980s. One of the most significant and specific concerns of the reforms has been to introduce private sector practices in the public sector. The primary aim is to help governments achieve their goals more efficiently, economically and effectively. Education has been one of the key.... Full article: http://goo.gl/EDu0I Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000 The Guardian, UK
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April 20 2011 Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government's access watchdog revealed that all universities intend to charge at least £6,000 a year. The Office for Fair Access (Offa) announced that every one of the 123 universities and university colleges in England intend to charge £6,000 or more to full-time undergraduates from autumn 2012.... Full article: http://goo.gl/0n6H1 Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia The Herald April 21 2011 THE rising cost of third-level education in Ireland is leading to a "mass exodus" of Irish students to Australia. There has been a 40pc increase in inquiries from Irish students about Australian one- year temporary visas in the first quarter of this year, according to.... Full article: http://goo.gl/GfMZG Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones Times Higher Education April 21 2011 Australia's growing sector must redouble its efforts to recruit new academic blood, writes Simon Baker While attention on higher education in Australia has focused heavily on damage to its international student market, domestic expansion and a new regulatory regime, a separate problem.... Full article: http://goo.gl/plZnP Chinese eye other options The Australian April 20 2011 AUSTRALIA's clout as an education power in China is under threat and likely to decline, Beijing-based official Iain Watt has warned. Mr Watt, from Australian Education International, said the US, Britain and the rest of Europe were ramping up their presence in the China market and the Chinese were responding.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Fb2Or Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike The Guardian April 19 2011
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Today's the deadline for universities planning to charge over £6,000 in fees to tell Offa how they're going to help disadvantaged students. Jeevan Vasagar has calculated that the average tariff.... Full article: http://goo.gl/s6TMn Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy The Guardian, UK April 19 2011 Some 'radical ideas' circulating in higher education are anything but, says Paul Wakeling, so pay them no attention because they're not going to happen Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 recently focused on the medieval university. Listening to the broadcast, it reminded me how little has changed in some respects since the foundation of the University.... Full article: http://goo.gl/zVfqd Wellings to leave UK for Australian post Times Higher Education April 20 2011 Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the 1994 Group, is leaving the UK to take the helm of an Australian university. The head of the UK’s grouping of small research-intensive universities will become vice-chancellor of Wollongong University in New South Wales.... Full article: http://goo.gl/lNIav A crisis in international education in Australia OnlineOpinion.com.au April 19 2011 Political debate about immigration in Australia appears to be following a familiar and alarmingly simplistic trajectory. As the major parties clamour for victory on this hot-button issue, their instinct seems to be to conflate complex policy areas to easily digestible sound-bytes. A complicit media, by pandering to inherent public unease about population growth and illegal boat arrivals.... Full article: http://goo.gl/3nJOQ Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution The Australian April 18 2011 University Students on their graduation day at Sydney University. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Source: The Australian THE "extraordinary" burden on potential university students from countries including India and China impedes Australian universities capacity to compete for high quality international students....
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Full article: http://goo.gl/S3jXF 'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West University World News April 17 2011 For at least a decade Asia has been the main source of international students to universities in the West, with many graduates and researchers of Asian origin staying on as academics and scientists, never to return home. But as Asia's economies boom and its higher education and research sector expands at the same time as the West has suffered an economic downturn, the flow of talent is.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Yr6Gl Chill goodbye to our Indian summers The Sydney Morning Herald April 17 2011 We will rue the day we blew our chance with foreign students. I DIDN'T need statisticians to tell me the foreign student bubble had burst - it was clear to see in my local park. In the warmer months of 2009 and 2010, the cricket oval near our house resounded most afternoons and evenings with the joyous sounds of.... Full article: http://goo.gl/fY0x7 Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions Times Higher Education April 16 2011 The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to the head of Australia’s quality watchdog.... Full article: http://goo.gl/rUXIo Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students The Times of India April 15 2011 NEW DELHI: In a first by any foreign government, Australia on Friday launched a website in Hindi aimed at providing better information access to families of prospective Indian students in Victoria. The Hindi version of 'Study Melbourne' portal - http://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/hindi - was.... Full article: http://goo.gl/HGmWg Overseas student numbers dwindle
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation April 13 2011 The shrinking amount of international students in Australia has resulted in job losses and college closures. Factors such as the government visa crackdown and safety concerns have contributed to the slump being faced by the once booming sector.... Full article: http://goo.gl/OQV3t West meets East with new Asian campuses The Australian April 13 2011 IT'S been noted the tide is turning in the globalised world of higher education. The flow of students, ideas and researchers, until recently flowed from East to West. But an unprecedented investment in higher education in Asia has changed the game.... Full article: http://goo.gl/kopAv Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East The Chronicle of Higher Education April 13 2011 Middle Eastern countries need to look to the private sector to help educate their young people and prepare them for the job market, argues a report, "Education for Employment: Realizing Arab Youth Potential," sponsored by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and by.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hdblq Bribery charges laid over language tests The Sydney Morning Herald April 08 2011 Nine people have been charged with a total of 59 bribery offences following a West Australian corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests. The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has charged the men over allegations that English test.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ZU289 The trouble with homes away from home The Age, Australia April 07 2011 IT IS a downside of Melbourne's property boom that you don't hear much about - 10, 15 maybe 20 international students living in one home because rental accommodation is so scarce. ''Six students sharing one apartment is quite normal,'' says Wesa Chau.... Full article: http://goo.gl/5sNQ9
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Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News April 06 2011 This year, another private higher learning institution will be opened in Perak, offering twinning studies programme with foreign universities. Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said the SEGi University College (SUC), currently operating in the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur, would open its branch campus in.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ZzgtT Following the lead of US universities ABC News April 07 2011 UWA is following the lead of US and Canadian universities with a shake up of its course structure (ABC: Jonathan Beal) It has been described by the student guild as the biggest shake up of course structures that has ever been undertaken at the University of Western Australia. From next year, 76 first degrees will be replaced by just five new undergraduate degrees.... Full article: http://goo.gl/fTpUY Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students The Deccan Herald April 06 2011 Australian institutions have witnessed a 30 per cent drop in enrollment by Indian students while total admissions by overseas students decreased by 2.5 per cent during February this year as compared to the same period.... Full article: http://goo.gl/lDZKo Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector Steven Joyce April 06 2011 Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says a new Crown Agency to improve the way the government supports and encourages international education will also help minimise.... Full article: http://goo.gl/umP7q Overseas student intake falls The Age, Australia April 06 2011
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INTERNATIONAL student enrolments have dropped again, with the federal government recording a 2.5 per cent fall on last February's results. The figures, out this week, will do little to quell fears that the slump is set to continue into 2012.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hc69F While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased international demand The Australian April 13 2011 AS Australia faces competition for international students from the Asian tigers, especially China, the industry's eagle is again flying high. According to the US Council of Graduate Schools applications for postgraduate courses at its members increased by 9 per cent for the 2010-11 academic year.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Kvl6m Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal The Sydney Morning Herald April 13 2011 Three of eight men charged with bribery offences have pleaded guilty in court following a West Australian corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests. Abdul Kader, Vimal Vinodray Majithiya and Pritesh Chetan Shah pleaded guilty to their bribery charges in the Perth Magistrates Court.... Full article: http://goo.gl/yzifk Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns The Age April 13 2011 Future generations are ill-prepared for dealing with our major partners. Two decades ago, Australia traded with China at about the level we now trade with Malaysia. For a long time it was a slow-growing relationship - just a worm creeping up the graph. Then it jumped.... Full article: http://goo.gl/CpNbg Soft marking net may be cast wider The Australian April 13 2011 GIGI Foster, the academic whose research revealed evidence of soft marking of international students, is having her ongoing work frustrated by universities not providing data in the wake of publicity over her findings....
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Full article: http://goo.gl/cjmRB 'It's like we are a different class of people here' The Sydney Morning Herald April 12 2011 PHILIPA'S* perception of Sydney has changed since arriving as an international student three years ago. She's lived in six different houses and would never recommend tertiary study in Australia to her friends. ''It's like we are a different class of people here,'' she says.... Full article: http://goo.gl/F4W1k 939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships Manila Bulletin April 10 2011 A total of 939 Filipinos have received Australian scholarships from 2000 to 2010, or roughly 100 awardees every year, the Australian Embassy in Manila revealed recently. In fact, according to Australian Chargé d’Affaires Andrew Byrne, since the late 1940s, over 2,000 Filipinos were.... Full article: http://goo.gl/bojde The show MUST go on The Star, Malaysia April 03 2011 YOU rarely hear of universities closing down but if a report in an online news portal is to be believed, the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) could be a first in Malaysia. Alleged to be down to its last RM10mil, the report pictured a varsity at its knees and it was alleged that the money in its coffers would barely last.... Full article: http://goo.gl/NHGHd China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties University World News April 03 2011 One of the little-publicised sections of China's economic plan for the next five years includes Hong Kong for the first time since the former British colony's handover to China in 1997. However, Hong Kong and southern China have already been forging higher education ties with a view to creating.... Full article: http://goo.gl/dmH3Y Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy
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University World News April 03 2011 After months of controversy and deliberations over funding, the National University of Singapore and Yale University last week announced that they will establish a new autonomous Yale-NUS college within two years as Singapore's first liberal arts college based on the US model. The partnership is seen as a major development in Singapore's aim to become a knowledge hub.... Full article: http://goo.gl/OQh3q Doubts over student qualifications The New Zealand Herald April 02 2011 Korean students Christina Huh and Ben Baek were forced to pay for a worthless qualification from a school for international students. Christina Huh sounds like a model student. Her report card says she has passed every project on her design course and is full of enthusiastic teacher comments such as.... Full article: http://goo.gl/E5qv5 Immigration group slams overstayer ruling The New Zealand Herald April 01 2011 Immigration New Zealand's action in deporting foreign students without permits while simply issuing warnings to schools that break immigration laws is unfair, says the watchdog group Kiwi Immigration Watch. The department has issued warnings to 20 education providers that have not complied with immigration.... Full article: http://goo.gl/YTkwk Australian and New Zealand Higher education resources: ACUMA Incorporated Daily international education news on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acumainc Monthly international education news summaries: http://www.scribd.com/acumainc ACUMA Incorporated on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acumainc ACUMA on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/acuma-incorporated
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International education news: April 2011 Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers Anger at wait on student visas Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students Macquarie University facing looming China crisis Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy Asia: Can the private sector boost participation? Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000 Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones Chinese eye other options Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy Wellings to leave UK for Australian post A crisis in international education in Australia Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution 'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West Chill goodbye to our Indian summers Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students Overseas student numbers dwindle West meets East with new Asian campuses Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East Bribery charges laid over language tests The trouble with homes away from home Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution Following the lead of US universities Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector Overseas student intake falls While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased international demand Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns Soft marking net may be cast wider 'It's like we are a different class of people here' 939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships The show MUST go on China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy Doubts over student qualifications Immigration group slams overstayer ruling Australian and New Zealand Higher education resources: ACUMA Incorporated Ministry Suggests PhD As Basic Requirement For Lecturer Post At IPTA Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News April 28 2011 The Higher Education Ministry on Thursday suggested that doctorate degree (PhD) be made the basic requirement for lecturer post at all public institutions of higher learning in the country.
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Its deputy minister, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, said this was necessary to achieve the 75 per cent lecturers with Phd in research universities and 40 per cent at other universities.... Full article: http://goo.gl/jecvB Campus extremism 'a serious problem' say MPs and peers BBC, UK April 28 2011 Campus extremism is a "serious problem" that threatens UK security, a group of MPs and peers has said. There are "grave concerns" students are being radicalised in British universities, according to a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hWbio Anger at wait on student visas Adelaide Advertiser May 03 2011 BUSINESS SA says we are losing foreign students because it is taking three months to approve visas. Chief executive officer Peter Vaughan has written to the Federal Government to complain that an overseas student seeking a study visa in Australia must wait up to 12 weeks while an applicant.... Full article: http://goo.gl/tMF2l Shining dollar takes sparkle out of student market The Sydney Morning Herald April 30 2011 THE surging dollar is alarming Australian universities facing a drop in international student numbers. With the Aussie breaching $US1.09 this week on its way to a 30-year high, currency traders are warning of the toll on education. There are about 620,000 international students in Australia, about 39 per cent of whom are in higher education.... Full article: http://goo.gl/aBAcG Zip code: Association of University Administrators searches for the right metaphor Times Higher Education April 28 2011 The division between academics and university administrators persists despite attempts to bring the two camps closer together, an international study suggests. Maree Conway, former president of the Association for Tertiary Education Management in Australia.... Full article: http://goo.gl/AJjmV
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Fair Work Ombudsman cracks down on exploitation of foreign students Media release: Senator the Hon Christopher Evans April 27 2011 The Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, today welcomed a court decision to fine a Victorian employer $150 000 for exploiting international students. After a successful prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman, Melbourne Magistrate’s Court also ordered the operators of the two 7-Eleven stores in Melbourne and Geelong to pay the students.... Full article: http://goo.gl/a9agq Macquarie University facing looming China crisis The Australian April 27 2011 MACQUARIE University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz has admitted his institution will face a funding crisis next year if forecasts for falling Chinese student enrolments are accurate. Immigration officials have signalled visa applications from China are down 20 per cent, but education industry insiders believe the slump could be.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hN8my Asia: The rise of higher education philanthropy University World News April 24 2011 Universities around Asia watched with envy as Singapore's Nanyang Technological University received a US$120 million donation from the Lee Foundation early this year - the largest amount from a private donor received by a single institution in Singapore - and when Lei Zhang from China donated US$8,888,888 (eight is a lucky number) to Yale University in.... Full article: http://goo.gl/77fR8 Asia: Can the private sector boost participation? University World News April 24 2011 Governments in many developed countries such as Australia, the US and the UK initiated public management reforms in the 1980s. One of the most significant and specific concerns of the reforms has been to introduce private sector practices in the public sector. The primary aim is to help governments achieve their goals more efficiently, economically and effectively. Education has been one of the key.... Full article: http://goo.gl/EDu0I Tuition fees 2012: all universities to charge undergraduates at least £6,000 The Guardian, UK
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April 20 2011 Ministers have suffered a major blow to their tuition-fee reforms after the government's access watchdog revealed that all universities intend to charge at least £6,000 a year. The Office for Fair Access (Offa) announced that every one of the 123 universities and university colleges in England intend to charge £6,000 or more to full-time undergraduates from autumn 2012.... Full article: http://goo.gl/0n6H1 Soaring college fees drive Irish students to Australia The Herald April 21 2011 THE rising cost of third-level education in Ireland is leading to a "mass exodus" of Irish students to Australia. There has been a 40pc increase in inquiries from Irish students about Australian one- year temporary visas in the first quarter of this year, according to.... Full article: http://goo.gl/GfMZG Age concern spurs Australian efforts to attract the young ones Times Higher Education April 21 2011 Australia's growing sector must redouble its efforts to recruit new academic blood, writes Simon Baker While attention on higher education in Australia has focused heavily on damage to its international student market, domestic expansion and a new regulatory regime, a separate problem.... Full article: http://goo.gl/plZnP Chinese eye other options The Australian April 20 2011 AUSTRALIA's clout as an education power in China is under threat and likely to decline, Beijing-based official Iain Watt has warned. Mr Watt, from Australian Education International, said the US, Britain and the rest of Europe were ramping up their presence in the China market and the Chinese were responding.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Fb2Or Universities come clean on fees, teachers vote to strike The Guardian April 19 2011
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Today's the deadline for universities planning to charge over £6,000 in fees to tell Offa how they're going to help disadvantaged students. Jeevan Vasagar has calculated that the average tariff.... Full article: http://goo.gl/s6TMn Four things you shouldn't worry about in higher education policy The Guardian, UK April 19 2011 Some 'radical ideas' circulating in higher education are anything but, says Paul Wakeling, so pay them no attention because they're not going to happen Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 recently focused on the medieval university. Listening to the broadcast, it reminded me how little has changed in some respects since the foundation of the University.... Full article: http://goo.gl/zVfqd Wellings to leave UK for Australian post Times Higher Education April 20 2011 Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the 1994 Group, is leaving the UK to take the helm of an Australian university. The head of the UK’s grouping of small research-intensive universities will become vice-chancellor of Wollongong University in New South Wales.... Full article: http://goo.gl/lNIav A crisis in international education in Australia OnlineOpinion.com.au April 19 2011 Political debate about immigration in Australia appears to be following a familiar and alarmingly simplistic trajectory. As the major parties clamour for victory on this hot-button issue, their instinct seems to be to conflate complex policy areas to easily digestible sound-bytes. A complicit media, by pandering to inherent public unease about population growth and illegal boat arrivals.... Full article: http://goo.gl/3nJOQ Universities call for "fine-tuning" of student visas based on enrolling institution The Australian April 18 2011 University Students on their graduation day at Sydney University. Picture: Renee Nowytarger Source: The Australian THE "extraordinary" burden on potential university students from countries including India and China impedes Australian universities capacity to compete for high quality international students....
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Full article: http://goo.gl/S3jXF 'Brain Reclaim' as talent returns to Asia from West University World News April 17 2011 For at least a decade Asia has been the main source of international students to universities in the West, with many graduates and researchers of Asian origin staying on as academics and scientists, never to return home. But as Asia's economies boom and its higher education and research sector expands at the same time as the West has suffered an economic downturn, the flow of talent is.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Yr6Gl Chill goodbye to our Indian summers The Sydney Morning Herald April 17 2011 We will rue the day we blew our chance with foreign students. I DIDN'T need statisticians to tell me the foreign student bubble had burst - it was clear to see in my local park. In the warmer months of 2009 and 2010, the cricket oval near our house resounded most afternoons and evenings with the joyous sounds of.... Full article: http://goo.gl/fY0x7 Australia’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions Times Higher Education April 16 2011 The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to the head of Australia’s quality watchdog.... Full article: http://goo.gl/rUXIo Australia launches Hindi website for Indian students The Times of India April 15 2011 NEW DELHI: In a first by any foreign government, Australia on Friday launched a website in Hindi aimed at providing better information access to families of prospective Indian students in Victoria. The Hindi version of 'Study Melbourne' portal - http://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au/hindi - was.... Full article: http://goo.gl/HGmWg Overseas student numbers dwindle
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation April 13 2011 The shrinking amount of international students in Australia has resulted in job losses and college closures. Factors such as the government visa crackdown and safety concerns have contributed to the slump being faced by the once booming sector.... Full article: http://goo.gl/OQV3t West meets East with new Asian campuses The Australian April 13 2011 IT'S been noted the tide is turning in the globalised world of higher education. The flow of students, ideas and researchers, until recently flowed from East to West. But an unprecedented investment in higher education in Asia has changed the game.... Full article: http://goo.gl/kopAv Bigger Private-Sector Role Recommended for Middle East The Chronicle of Higher Education April 13 2011 Middle Eastern countries need to look to the private sector to help educate their young people and prepare them for the job market, argues a report, "Education for Employment: Realizing Arab Youth Potential," sponsored by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and by.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hdblq Bribery charges laid over language tests The Sydney Morning Herald April 08 2011 Nine people have been charged with a total of 59 bribery offences following a West Australian corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests. The Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has charged the men over allegations that English test.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ZU289 The trouble with homes away from home The Age, Australia April 07 2011 IT IS a downside of Melbourne's property boom that you don't hear much about - 10, 15 maybe 20 international students living in one home because rental accommodation is so scarce. ''Six students sharing one apartment is quite normal,'' says Wesa Chau.... Full article: http://goo.gl/5sNQ9
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Perak To See Another Private Higher Learning Institution Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News April 06 2011 This year, another private higher learning institution will be opened in Perak, offering twinning studies programme with foreign universities. Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said the SEGi University College (SUC), currently operating in the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur, would open its branch campus in.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ZzgtT Following the lead of US universities ABC News April 07 2011 UWA is following the lead of US and Canadian universities with a shake up of its course structure (ABC: Jonathan Beal) It has been described by the student guild as the biggest shake up of course structures that has ever been undertaken at the University of Western Australia. From next year, 76 first degrees will be replaced by just five new undergraduate degrees.... Full article: http://goo.gl/fTpUY Australian education industry witnesses drop in foreign students The Deccan Herald April 06 2011 Australian institutions have witnessed a 30 per cent drop in enrollment by Indian students while total admissions by overseas students decreased by 2.5 per cent during February this year as compared to the same period.... Full article: http://goo.gl/lDZKo Combined international education agency to boost (NZ) sector Steven Joyce April 06 2011 Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says a new Crown Agency to improve the way the government supports and encourages international education will also help minimise.... Full article: http://goo.gl/umP7q Overseas student intake falls The Age, Australia April 06 2011
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INTERNATIONAL student enrolments have dropped again, with the federal government recording a 2.5 per cent fall on last February's results. The figures, out this week, will do little to quell fears that the slump is set to continue into 2012.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hc69F While the Asian tigers are growling the American education eagle is soaring on increased international demand The Australian April 13 2011 AS Australia faces competition for international students from the Asian tigers, especially China, the industry's eagle is again flying high. According to the US Council of Graduate Schools applications for postgraduate courses at its members increased by 9 per cent for the 2010-11 academic year.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Kvl6m Three plead guilty in uni bribe scandal The Sydney Morning Herald April 13 2011 Three of eight men charged with bribery offences have pleaded guilty in court following a West Australian corruption hearing into the manipulation of English-language competency tests. Abdul Kader, Vimal Vinodray Majithiya and Pritesh Chetan Shah pleaded guilty to their bribery charges in the Perth Magistrates Court.... Full article: http://goo.gl/yzifk Australian students in the dark as Asia's century dawns The Age April 13 2011 Future generations are ill-prepared for dealing with our major partners. Two decades ago, Australia traded with China at about the level we now trade with Malaysia. For a long time it was a slow-growing relationship - just a worm creeping up the graph. Then it jumped.... Full article: http://goo.gl/CpNbg Soft marking net may be cast wider The Australian April 13 2011 GIGI Foster, the academic whose research revealed evidence of soft marking of international students, is having her ongoing work frustrated by universities not providing data in the wake of publicity over her findings....
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Full article: http://goo.gl/cjmRB 'It's like we are a different class of people here' The Sydney Morning Herald April 12 2011 PHILIPA'S* perception of Sydney has changed since arriving as an international student three years ago. She's lived in six different houses and would never recommend tertiary study in Australia to her friends. ''It's like we are a different class of people here,'' she says.... Full article: http://goo.gl/F4W1k 939 Filipinos receive Australian scholarships Manila Bulletin April 10 2011 A total of 939 Filipinos have received Australian scholarships from 2000 to 2010, or roughly 100 awardees every year, the Australian Embassy in Manila revealed recently. In fact, according to Australian Chargé d’Affaires Andrew Byrne, since the late 1940s, over 2,000 Filipinos were.... Full article: http://goo.gl/bojde The show MUST go on The Star, Malaysia April 03 2011 YOU rarely hear of universities closing down but if a report in an online news portal is to be believed, the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) could be a first in Malaysia. Alleged to be down to its last RM10mil, the report pictured a varsity at its knees and it was alleged that the money in its coffers would barely last.... Full article: http://goo.gl/NHGHd China & Hong Kong: Thorny issues of higher education ties University World News April 03 2011 One of the little-publicised sections of China's economic plan for the next five years includes Hong Kong for the first time since the former British colony's handover to China in 1997. However, Hong Kong and southern China have already been forging higher education ties with a view to creating.... Full article: http://goo.gl/dmH3Y Singapore-Yale tie-up to proceed despite controversy
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University World News April 03 2011 After months of controversy and deliberations over funding, the National University of Singapore and Yale University last week announced that they will establish a new autonomous Yale-NUS college within two years as Singapore's first liberal arts college based on the US model. The partnership is seen as a major development in Singapore's aim to become a knowledge hub.... Full article: http://goo.gl/OQh3q Doubts over student qualifications The New Zealand Herald April 02 2011 Korean students Christina Huh and Ben Baek were forced to pay for a worthless qualification from a school for international students. Christina Huh sounds like a model student. Her report card says she has passed every project on her design course and is full of enthusiastic teacher comments such as.... Full article: http://goo.gl/E5qv5 Immigration group slams overstayer ruling The New Zealand Herald April 01 2011 Immigration New Zealand's action in deporting foreign students without permits while simply issuing warnings to schools that break immigration laws is unfair, says the watchdog group Kiwi Immigration Watch. The department has issued warnings to 20 education providers that have not complied with immigration.... Full article: http://goo.gl/YTkwk Australian and New Zealand Higher education resources: ACUMA Incorporated Daily international education news on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acumainc Monthly international education news summaries: http://www.scribd.com/acumainc ACUMA Incorporated on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/acumainc ACUMA on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/acuma-incorporated
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