International Education News Summary: March 2011

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International higher education news summary for March 2011
Business in plea on Asian languages

From where I sit, Doctorates for everyone
Old school's out as Hong Kong shifts to US model
Shonky tests seen as isolated case
Britain's closed door may open a window of opportunity
SA to push for more overseas students
Uni club claims fee hike is racist
Back to the 1980s: VC warning over Willetts’ places plan
Senior university delegation to tour China
UK: Government eases crackdown on student visas
Draw up a refund plan for (Malaysian) universities
English test scam 'got too big'
Oxford offers places for Canterbury students
UK visa concessions made, but question marks remain
Allegations visa scam operating at second university
Probe hears of bribes for overseas migrant English exams
Students paid for fake results
CCC hears claims universities implicated in student scams
New legislation to strengthen the quality of Australian international education
UK Tackles Immigration With Clampdown on Student-Visa Issuance
Soft marking claim needs follow-up
Language skills vital in an Asia-led world
Soft marking first refuge of the ill-informed
IELTS software ridiculed
Cul-de-sac of broken dreams
Asia: Countries vying to become education hubs
Trends and drivers in internationalisation
What international students want to study
Turning knowledge into the new oil
Top ten lessons from FutureCampus Forum Malaysia
International students swell ANU's growing numbers
Pass marks can be degrading
Murdoch University (Malaysian) branch likely
Curtin University's visa testing investigated by WA corruption watchdog
UK mission groups set to dissolve in the 'red ocean'
Oxbridge can lead the way by keeping tuition fees down
University slammed over donations
Recruiter tries hand targeting old Dart
First steps to an international standard on outcomes
Marketing blitz in Beijing
Free ride past language barrier
Professors Get Out of Lab to Focus on Classes
China's ambitious plans to attract foreign students
Caution with offshore campuses
The cheating epidemic at Britain's universities
Over 1,000 Will Graduate From Curtin Sarawak In May
India Prepares a Welcome Mat for Students and Foreign Universities
State could drop private college watchdog pledge
Indonesia: Sleeping giant on our doorstep
Evolving Higher Ed Hubs
Asia-Pacific's biggest education conference set for Taiwan
Australia's Long history of international higher education
Blitz to lure Chinese students
Malaysia out to woo more Aussie students
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Unis told to step up overseas student recruitment

'UK doesn't want us, let's go elsewhere'
Najib Conferred With Doctor Of Letters From Monash University
Spain, France, USA, New Zealand
More students on horizon
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Business in plea on Asian languages

The Age
March 31 2011
BUSINESS leaders have written to federal MPs to emphasise the importance of Asian languages, amid
fears a program to support the teaching of languages in schools could be cut in the May budget.
Funding for the $62 million program, which supports the teaching of Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and
Korean, is due to run out....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/zv9ye
From where I sit, Doctorates for everyone

Times Higher Education
March 31 2011
Question: When is a doctorate not a doctorate? Answer: When it's a master's degree.
So here's the thing: government education ministers in Australia are seriously considering a proposal to
award certain master's degrees that would entitle the holder to use the title "doctor of...".
Full article:
http://goo.gl/9mGyV
Old school's out as Hong Kong shifts to US model

March 31 2011
More funding, hiring bonanza and four-year degrees all part and parcel of reform. John Morgan
reports
A government keen to pump funding into universities, helping them prepare for a 30 per cent increase in
student numbers by hiring large numbers of extra staff: what sounds like an impossible dream for most
Western universities....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/p9m3q
Shonky tests seen as isolated case

The Australian
March 30 2011
THE fraud at Curtin University's IELTS test centre is the worst reported in Australia, according to test
operator IDP Australia....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ejdB0
Britain's closed door may open a window of opportunity

The Australian
March 30 2011
TIGHTER British visa rules may give Australia added leverage in the tough global competition for
international students.
"There is a potential opportunity for Australia," International Education Association Australia president
Stephen Connelly said. "As it becomes more difficult to get visas into countries such as the UK, students
will look elsewhere."
Full article:
http://goo.gl/eKUXz
SA to push for more overseas students

The Sydney Morning Herald
March 29 2011
A push for more international students from China and India will foster investment, trade and migration
into the future, South Australian Premier Mike Rann says.
Making a pitch for more students from both countries to study in Adelaide, Mr Rann said many of....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/6N42d
Uni club claims fee hike is racist

The Age
March 28 2011
MELBOURNE University's Kung Fu Club has accused the campus sports association of racism and
discrimination over a fee increase imposed on clubs.
Melbourne University Sport says it was forced to make the increase due to a revenue shortfall caused
by the Howard government's ban on collecting union fees from students....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/e458D
Back to the 1980s: VC warning over Willetts’ places plan

March 29 2011
Any attempt by the government to siphon off a percentage of student places and reallocate them to
universities offering the lowest fees would drive down quality and lead to larger class sizes, a vice-
chancellor has told....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ZV5wt
Senior university delegation to tour China
Swinburne Media Centre

March 28 2011
A high-level delegation from Swinburne University of Technology will visit China this week to meet with
partner universities in Xuzhou, Nanjing and Weihai.
Led by Swinburne Pro Vice-Chancellor (International and Recruitment) Mr Jeffrey Smart, the delegation
will visit China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Nanjing Audit University (NAU), Nanjing
University of Chinese Medicine (NUCM) and Shandong University (Weihai campus) ....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/nUICR
UK: Government eases crackdown on student visas

University World News
March 27 2011
British Home Secretary Theresa May (pictured) is striving to present new visa rules for students from
outside the European Economic Area as a tough stand on immigration without sending a message that
UK universities are "closed for business" in the competitive international student market....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/BmsoO
Draw up a refund plan for (Malaysian) universities

The Star, Malaysia
March 27 2011
OUR daughter was enrolled at a private medical university last year.
We were required to place a registration deposit and part payment of the first term’s fee which was
RM20,740....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/rKuMI
English test scam 'got too big'

The Australian
March 25 2011
ONE of three men covertly photographed by investigators probing a racket involving Indian students
paying thousands of dollars for dodgy English test scores believes that the scam got "too big".
Detailing the intricacies of the scheme in Perth's Corruption and Crime Commission yesterday, Abdul
Kader said he was "just the middle person" who passed envelopes full of thousands of dollars in cash....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/IYvI3
Oxford offers places for Canterbury students

Radio New Zealand
March 24 2011
Oxford University in Britain has become the latest institution to offer places for students at the
earthquake-stricken Canterbury University....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/32RDv
UK visa concessions made, but question marks remain

March 24 2011
Clampdown not as harsh as first feared, but still problematic, critics claim. Simon Baker reports
Question marks remain over the ability of universities to weather the government's clampdown on
immigration after it finally announced its decision on student visas.
A high-profile campaign in which vice-chancellors warned of the dire threat posed to the sector by visa
restrictions appears to have won some concessions - most notably the continuation....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/RCBtJ
Allegations visa scam operating at second university

ABC News
March 23 2011
A corruption hearing has been told an immigration scam operating at Curtin University could also be
running at the University of Western Australia.
The CCC is investigating allegations that foreign students paid tens of thousands of dollars in bribes....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ev3cF
Probe hears of bribes for overseas migrant English exams

The Herald Sun
March 24 2011
UP to 25 immigrants could have paid bribes to have their English-language exams changed in order to
be granted a visa or permanent residency, a West Australian corruption hearing has heard.
The state's Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) is investigating allegations a staff member at Curtin
University was bribed to falsify results of English-language competency tests....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/RUXl3
Students paid for fake results

The Australian
March 24 2011
A SCAM involving a Perth university employee charging Indian students thousands of dollars for fake
English test results stretched across the country, with one student flying from Queensland to obtain dodgy
marks.
The student, Sukhdeep Buttar, was desperate to secure results good enough to qualify for permanent
residency....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/n7N7R
CCC hears claims universities implicated in student scams

The Australian
March 24 2011
WESTERN Australia's most prestigious university has been implicated in a scam involving Indian students
paying thousands of dollars for fake English test results so they could meet visa requirements.
An Indian student integral to the fraudulent scheme operating out of Curtin University claimed....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/k2HiK
New legislation to strengthen the quality of Australian international education

Media release: Sen Christopher Evans
March 22 2011
Greater protection for international students will be available following last night’s passage of the first
tranche of the legislative changes recommended by the Baird Review.
Minister for Tertiary Education, Senator Chris Evans, said these legislative changes reinforce the Gillard
Government’s continued commitment to international education, and build on a range....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/J4reo
UK Tackles Immigration With Clampdown on Student-Visa Issuance

Bloomberg
March 23 2011
U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May announced restrictions on student visas, saying they provide an easy
route into Britain for those seeking to sidestep stringent immigration controls.
Immigration by students has more than trebled over the past 10 years against a backdrop of an
“increase in abuse in the higher-education sector,” May told lawmakers in Parliament in London....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/PDrKF
Soft marking claim needs follow-up

The Australian
March 23 2011
GIGI Foster, the researcher whose analysis of the marking of international students' work provided for
the first time evidence of universities passing their work despite inadequate English-language skills, has
urged the sector to engage in further research and not shoot the messenger.
The University of NSW economist wanted more universities to make available student data....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/6SdGS
Language skills vital in an Asia-led world

The Australian
March 23 2011
WE are failing to properly educate our children to succeed in a world led by Asian countries.
There is little doubt Australia's future economic prosperity depends on our ability to embed ourselves in
Asia's continued economic growth. However, our education system fails to prepare our students to
succeed....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/fuerD
Soft marking first refuge of the ill-informed

The Australian
March 23 2011
DESPITE decibels of dog whistles, there remains a lack of evidence that international students in
Australian universities drag standards down.
The gold standard for measuring academic performance is the student progress unit: how much of what I
attempted did I pass?
Full article:
http://goo.gl/qMd0D
IELTS software ridiculed

The Australian
March 23 2011
IELTS Australia, the company that runs English language testing here, was warned about its unreliable
software but did nothing, a corruption watchdog has been told.
The West Australian Corruption and Crime Commission is investigating claims that overseas students paid
up to $11,000 for false IELTS test results so they could qualify for permanent residency....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/sMIo6
Cul-de-sac of broken dreams

The Sydney Morning Herald
March 21 2011
At first glance, Koorong Street, Marsfield, is a classic piece of Australian suburbia, a quiet cul-de-sac of
large brick houses with front lawns, backyards, garages and driveways, all under a canopy of trees. It
looks sleepy. It is not.
Signs of illegality are everywhere. Many lawns and gardens are unkempt. Many homes have shrouded
windows in the middle of the day. Many main bedrooms are cut through the middle by a dividing
wall....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/MPk8z
Asia: Countries vying to become education hubs

March 20 2011
A number of Asian countries have declared that they want to become higher education hubs in order to
develop as knowledge economies. They are setting up facilities and initiating policies to attract foreign
students, researchers and faculty as well as branch campuses of foreign institutions, in what amounts to a
major change in attitude towards higher education from purely local to regional and international....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/ciZIq
Trends and drivers in internationalisation

March 20 2011
Over the three decades, the internationalisation of higher education has moved through various stages
of development. First, 30 years ago, there was a move from aid to trade in the United Kingdom with the
introduction of full-cost fees for international students, and around the same time....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/LbMFU
What international students want to study

March 20 2011
Predicting where future international students will come from and what subjects they go abroad to study
has become a mini-industry in receiving countries such as Britain and Australia, where some courses are
highly dependent on overseas student fees.
Delegates and experts at the British Council's Going Global conference, held in Hong Kong from 11-12
March, agreed that demand for overseas courses from Asian students will carry on rising....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/gmGwp
Turning knowledge into the new oil

BBC, UK
March 18 2011
It might seem like pouring water onto sand - almost literally - but the Gulf kingdom of Qatar is banking
on a remarkable transformation in its fortunes.
The small but fabulously wealthy state is using its hydrocarbon earnings to try to convert itself into a
global knowledge hub....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/FUeYp
TOP TEN LESSONS FROM FUTURECAMPUS FORUM MALAYSIA

FutureGov.asia
March 17 2011
FutureCampus Forum took on a new Interactive Discussion Table format in Kuala Lumpur. More than 120
Malaysian education thought leaders from ministries, schools and universities rotated over ten tables,
each discussing one of the key challenges facing educators today....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/JbIHB
International students swell ANU's growing numbers

The Canberra Times
March 17 2011
The Australian National University has enrolled an extra 361 international students this year 9 per cent
more than last year and in contrast with a national slump in international enrolments.
According to the latest student census, the ANU has enrolled an extra 442 students this year....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/UuB3M
Pass marks can be degrading

The Australian
March 17 2011
ACADEMICS hate anybody saying it, but education is an industry. In the quarter century or so since
Australian universities started marketing overseas, foreign fee-paying student numbers have burgeoned.
They provide the cash that keeps local institutions operating in relative comfort, providing an average
17 per cent or so of the system's fee income in 2009....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/a5xaJ
Murdoch University (Malaysian) branch likely

The Daily Express, Malaysia
March 16 2011
Kota Kinabalu: Murdoch University of Rockingham, Western Australia, may set up a branch here if
discussions between City Hall and its Rockingham counterparts regarding the possibility are successful.
"(But) we need to sit down and see if it is viable to set up the university's branch here...."
Full article:
http://goo.gl/azHYf
Curtin University's visa testing investigated by WA corruption watchdog

PerthNow.com.au
March 18 2011
The Curtin English Language Centre at Curtin University is being investigated for 'possible misconduct'
over language tests for visas. Picture: PerthNow.
WA's corruption watchdog has launched an investigation into possible misconduct at Curtin University's
international English language testing department....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/07coo
UK mission groups set to dissolve in the 'red ocean'

March 17 2011
Ties may fray as institutions trying to be all things suffer financially, study hints. Simon Baker reports
The university mission groups in the UK may start to disintegrate as institutions strive to stand out from
the crowd in the increasingly competitive marketplace....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/uk6HA
Oxbridge can lead the way by keeping tuition fees down

The Guardian, UK
March 16 2011
Oxford and Cambridge universities are in a better position than many to resist the temptation to charge
£9,000 fees
As befuddled government ministers blink into the mess created by the rushed parliamentary vote tripling
tuition fees, both Oxford and Cambridge, along with Imperial College and Exeter, have apparently
confirmed that they will be charging the full £9,000. These announcements are premature....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/VKxvX
University slammed over donations

The Adelaide Advertiser
March 17 2011
THE University of Adelaide has been criticised for accepting huge donations from a Malaysian politician.
A South-East Asian governance expert yesterday said it was "highly inappropriate" for the university to
accept donations from Sarawak's billionaire Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/NrAAh
Recruiter tries hand targeting old Dart

The Australian
March 16 2011
STUDENT recruiter IDP has broken into the British market, signing up two universities and courting
another 20.
"We would hope that over the next few weeks we'll start to see some of those [other 20] coming on
board," IDP chief executive Tony Pollock said yesterday....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Ck6oL
First steps to an international standard on outcomes

The Australian
March 16 2011
A HUNDRED engineering students are about to sit for a test that represents the first step towards a
global measure of the knowledge passed on to graduates.
"The ball is rolling after years of talking," said Daniel Edwards, of the Australian Council for Educational
Research....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/92EXj
Marketing blitz in Beijing

The Australian
March 16 2011
THE federal government is ramping up its efforts to reverse the damaging trend of falling student
enrolments from its largest market by launching a fresh education marketing campaign in China.
Parliamentary Trade Secretary Justine Elliot is in Beijing this week, while the chairman of the government
review of student visas, Michael Knight, is due to travel to Asia next month....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/Tk5Yx
Free ride past language barrier

The Australian
March 16 2011
Gigi Foster believes international students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are being allowed to
underperform.
GIGI Foster knows her disturbing research findings on international students won't make her many
friends. In a university sector grown dependent on international fee revenue, it might not do much to
progress her academic career either.
But the audience she wants to reach is not academe but the policy-makers. It's at this level where change
could be driven to address the poor language and cultural skills she says are undermining....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/dg5pC
Professors Get Out of Lab to Focus on Classes

The New York Times
March 15 2011
When Erica Sainsbury, a pharmacist in Sydney, joined the ranks of academia in 1989, her university life
was divided between the classroom and the laboratory, split between teaching students and conducting
research.
Now, Dr. Sainsbury, a lecturer in pharmaceutical science at the University of Sydney, has chosen to
leave the laboratory behind and spend most of her time helping students, developing curricula....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/hVnKN
China's ambitious plans to attract foreign students

March 13 2011
China's ambitious plans to turn itself into an innovation economy include a big increase in the number of
foreign students, turning the country into an education 'hub', a top Chinese education ministry official told
an international conference in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, new official figures revealed that there are now
31 million higher education students in China....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/NuAzg
Caution with offshore campuses

March 13 2011
Establishing a campus in another country requires a vast amount of work, absorbs a huge quantity of the
time of senior academics and managers, takes even longer to get the campus up and running - and
should only be tried if it meets with the university's long-term strategic plans.
This was the view put by Monash University Vice-chancellor Professor Ed Byrne in his address to....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/jc9w3
The cheating epidemic at Britain's universities

The Telgraph, UK
March 05 2011
A cheating epidemic is sweeping universities with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to
bribe lecturers and buying essays from the internet.
A survey of more than 80 universities has revealed that academic misconduct is soaring at institutions
across the country.
More than 17,000 incidents of cheating were recorded by universities in the 2009-10 academic year....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/9uYNd
Over 1,000 Will Graduate From Curtin Sarawak In May

Bernama, Malysian Nat'l News
March 14 2011
Over 1,000 Curtin University Sarawak (Curtin Sarawak) students will graduate from various pre-
university and degree programmes on May 5 and 6.
In a statement here today, Curtin Sarawak said the figure represented the highest number of graduands
the university had seen since its establishment in....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/QXRqD
India Prepares a Welcome Mat for Students and Foreign Universities

The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 13 2011
India's minister in charge of higher education said last week that he would continue to push to free
Indian universities from government red tape and to change rules so that foreign institutions can open
campuses in the country.
Speaking during the Emerging Directions in Global Education conference here, the minister....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/NBhQV
State could drop private college watchdog pledge

The Age
March 13 2011
THE state government may dump an election promise to create an independent watchdog to weed out
shonky private colleges preying on international students in what would be Ted Baillieu's second
education backflip since coming to office.
The Coalition had promised to create a tertiary education and training ombudsman to hear complaints
from students and investigate all facets of the international education market....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/IMZUz
Indonesia: Sleeping giant on our doorstep

The Australian
March 12 2011
WHAT if the recovery from the global financial crisis unexpectedly revealed one of the world's big
emerging market economies on our doorstep?
Not China or India, two of the so-called BRIC economies (along with Brazil and Russia) now helping the
developing world to be the global economy's growth engine for the first time since the industrial
revolution. But Indonesia, the fourth most populous nation and long seen as a problem for Australia....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/asIeU
Evolving Higher Ed Hubs

InsideHigherEd.com
March 11 2011
HONG KONG -- In the global economy, many nations want to be known as a "higher ed hub."
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and several countries in the Middle East are all striving to attract some
combination of local and international universities that would make them a regional center for education
and research. The theory goes that some of the top student talent from the area may stay....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/7oUKY
Asia-Pacific's biggest education conference set for Taiwan

Taiwan Today
March 08 2011
National Taiwan University will host the 2011 conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for International
Education, Asia’s largest higher education event, the Ministry of Education announced March 7.
Taking place March 9 to 12 at National Taiwan University in Taipei, the meeting is expected to bring
together 750 delegates representing 400 institutions from over 40 countries....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/KhVNK
Australia's Long history of international higher education

March 06 2011
Australia has a long history of international higher education. From humble beginnings, today Australia
is one of the world's top study destinations, international education is worth AUS$19 billion (US$19.3
billion) annually and it is the country's third largest industry after coal and iron ore, placing it far ahead
of others such as tourism.
The nation's elite universities, political stability and vibrant cultural offerings have made its international
education industry....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/xFkNW
Blitz to lure Chinese students

The Australian
March 09 2011
AUSTRALIA will attempt to lift its fading fortunes in the critical $5 billion-a-year Chinese student market
with a fresh marketing blitz at China's largest education show, which starts in Beijing on Sunday.
Parliamentary Secretary for Trade Justine Elliott is expected to visit the show as part of a four-day trip
to Australia's largest student market....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/O6AtL
Malaysia out to woo more Aussie students

The Sun, Malaysia
March 05 2011
The Government is seeking ways to allow credit transfer by Australian students to study in Malaysian
universities for at least one semester.
“This credit transfer is an important step as it will involve all universities in Malaysia,” Prime Minister
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/xbEs8
Unis told to step up overseas student recruitment

ABC via Yahoo 7News
March 02 2011
Universities Australia says educational institutions need to be more competitive to ensure international
students continue to study here.
It comes as caps on university places will be lifted next year, allowing institutions to teach as many
students as they can enrol....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/nBLdP
'UK doesn't want us, let's go elsewhere'

March 03 2011
Visa proposals are already discouraging foreign applicants, expert warns. Sarah Cunnane reports
Proposed changes to the UK's student-visa system will make it harder for the country's universities to
expand into new markets, according to a student-recruitment expert.
Anthony Pollock, chief executive of the Australian international student-recruitment agency IDP
Education, said that even though the changes proposed by the government had yet to be
implemented....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/sFQ9v
Najib Conferred With Doctor Of Letters From Monash University

Bernama, Malaysian National News
March 04 2011
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who was on Friday conferred with a Doctor of Letters of Law
Honoris Causa by Australia's renowned academic institution Monash University, said education would
continue to be the most important area of cooperation between Malaysia and Australia....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/OhmCb
Spain, France, USA, New Zealand

Times Higher Education News in Brief
March 03 2011
Spain: Non-residents need not apply
Foreign students will not be allowed to apply to Spain's two main doctoral fellowship programmes
unless they can prove they are residents of the country. Under new regulations, non-Spanish candidates
applying for fellowships from the schemes run by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science
and Innovation will require a "foreigner identification number" or prove they are registered....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/XG7jA
More students on horizon

The Manawatu Standard
March 04 2011
Massey University's international student numbers this year are so far up about 20 per cent on last
year's 4000, and the earthquake crisis in Canterbury looks set to shove that number higher still.
Assistant vice-chancellor (academic and international) Ingrid Day said the increase in head-count
numbers was significant and useful growth for the university. It reflected hard work staff had....
Full article:
http://goo.gl/C601v
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International higher education news summary for March 2011

 Business in plea on Asian languages

 Unis told to step up overseas student recruitment

Business in plea on Asian languages

From where I sit, Doctorates for everyone

Old school's out as Hong Kong shifts to US model

Shonky tests seen as isolated case

Britain's closed door may open a window of opportunity

SA to push for more overseas students

Uni club claims fee hike is racist

Back to the 1980s: VC warning over Willetts’ places plan

Senior university delegation to tour China

Swinburne Media Centre

UK: Government eases crackdown on student visas

Draw up a refund plan for (Malaysian) universities

OUR daughter was enrolled at a private medical university last year.

English test scam 'got too big'

Oxford offers places for Canterbury students

UK visa concessions made, but question marks remain

Allegations visa scam operating at second university

Probe hears of bribes for overseas migrant English exams

Students paid for fake results

CCC hears claims universities implicated in student scams

New legislation to strengthen the quality of Australian international education

UK Tackles Immigration With Clampdown on Student-Visa Issuance

Soft marking claim needs follow-up

Language skills vital in an Asia-led world

Soft marking first refuge of the ill-informed

IELTS software ridiculed

Cul-de-sac of broken dreams

Asia: Countries vying to become education hubs

Trends and drivers in internationalisation

What international students want to study

Turning knowledge into the new oil

TOP TEN LESSONS FROM FUTURECAMPUS FORUM MALAYSIA

International students swell ANU's growing numbers

Pass marks can be degrading

Murdoch University (Malaysian) branch likely

Curtin University's visa testing investigated by WA corruption watchdog

UK mission groups set to dissolve in the 'red ocean'

Oxbridge can lead the way by keeping tuition fees down

University slammed over donations

Recruiter tries hand targeting old Dart

First steps to an international standard on outcomes

Marketing blitz in Beijing

Free ride past language barrier

Professors Get Out of Lab to Focus on Classes

China's ambitious plans to attract foreign students

Caution with offshore campuses

The cheating epidemic at Britain's universities

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