This week's top #socialmedia and #intled news includes several relevant webinars this week on agents, govt policy changes, the upcoming 2025 new Carnegie classification system, record US student visas, and UK breathes a MAC sigh of relief.
- If you’re hoping to better connect with Chinese students, check out this report from industry leaders Sinorbis. It provides insights on what works in which provinces and an analysis of over 3.7 million digital engagements to provide context.
- This ICEF podcast examines the impact of recent government policy changes on international student interest and takes a close look at the rising tiger of Asia: the Philippines.
- There’s no question that the best international student recruitment plans are data-based. But how many of us are truly leveraging the power of technology to aid in the collection, production, analysis, and reporting of critical information?
- Getting international educational agent management right is no easy feat. This Tuesday webinar from the Chronicle should be well worth your time if you are struggling to implement an important element of a successful strategy.
- Anyone with an eye on the challenges Australia, Canada, and the UK have had with international student housing knows how significant this issue is. This ICEF webinar will delve into the issues surrounding this critical facet of intl ed.
- If you are struggling to keep up with all the various challenges to international student recruitment around the globe, this webinar hopes to shed light on how to interpret the changes impacting our field.
- One of the biggest challenges in international student enrollment management is strategic budgeting. Grab these Intead resources soon so you can have truly essential tools to craft a realistic, sustainable budget.
- If you’re looking for the basics on how to find and engage with future international students, this blog from Interstride outlines the key components that will help you build a plan that meets students where they are with messages that fit.
- A bipartisan request from Congress to DHS to provide clarifications for international student-athletes as to what is possible (and not) under NIL rules that stand in stark contrast to immigration regulations.
- Though Carnegie classifications are not rankings, the upcoming 2025 introduction of what is being called a “social—and economic-mobility classification” will begin to provide meaningful data for future international students.
- I like a good myth-busting article on international student expectations in the US. This Forbes piece includes some winners including the post-study salaries of graduates from highly-selective and less-selective colleges being relatively equal.
- I am happy to read that all immigration-related court cases are not anti-international student decisions. This one impacted OPT students who were deported after being hired by fake employers. They will be allowed back in the country to continue.
- This State Department mid-year report reveals the beginning of another record-breaking year for student visas issued (exchange and F-1) so far for FY 24 with over 249K F, M, and J visas from October 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024.
- Having participated in IIE’s IAPP in Thailand last month, I couldn’t agree more with the value of in-person partnership building events like this program: Truly ground-breaking and far-reaching for the participating US and Thai colleges.
- According to Studyportals' latest report, Recruiting for Key Disciplines, graduate student interest in US study, particularly in business fields, has increased dramatically in recent months.
- If you’d like a copy of this latest report from Studyportals you can do so here. I would recommend if you’d like to know where the most interest for your programs abroad is, download this document now.
- If your local press, outside your university, profiles your international students or recent graduates, this kind of positive press can and must be shared widely as well as to future students from his/her country who want to see what they can be.
- Why should international students consider the US? You don’t have to know what you want to do; ways exist to mitigate costs, liberal arts are everywhere (and is okay), and plenty of universities will accept students from overseas at higher rates.
- In a positive move, one of the major pathway providers focuses on resources for graduating international students who wish to return home and pursue employment there. That’s meeting a huge unmet need in the market.
- While this article shares the state of transnational education market for UK universities, the need for innovation to make this corner of international education profitable and sustainable shares important lessons for US colleges.
- Australia - If you thought the Canadian cap (or reduction) of international study permits issued in the next two years was harsh (30%), spare a care for our international ed colleagues Down Under who are facing a 50+% cut this year!
- Australia - Much like in Canada, Australia’s government, in its attempts to reign in migration numbers, is targeting “dodgy providers” mostly in the vocational education sector as the most common route for non-genuine students.
- Australia - It looks like the Australian government’s soft-cap limit on international students may not happen until January 2025: “Australia’s minister of education will have the power to set a limit for maximum number of new international student enrolments at any institution.”
- Canada - A damning report of the loosie, goosey Canadian immigration policy outcomes suggests that “Canadian Immigration Has Failed to Bring In People Canada Actually Needs.” Business favored over health care and skilled trades.
- China - Amnesty International has investigated the treatment of Chinese students studying overseas who have been targeted by Chinese officials for supposed breaches of national security and intelligence laws. Scary stuff.
- Indonesia - This story about people trafficking charges against 41 Indonesian universities who sent their students for “apprenticeship” work in Germany only for the students to be treated as cheap labor is troubling at a minimum.
- Malaysia - Much like many of its East Asian neighbors hoping to become more significant destinations for international students, the Malaysian government is leaning toward improved post-study work opportunities for international graduates.
- New Zealand—The Kiwi nation has seen a few sprouts of re-growth of its international student market in recent months. It seems now that the vocational education sector is advocating for post-study work options for its graduates to boost numbers.
- Philippines - The Philippines is becoming a rising tier in Asia. One of the reasons they have received this label has been the boom in international students there, many from China. This spike has raised security concerns in the Filipino government.
- UK - As I mentioned in my Midweek Roundup on Wednesday, the UK intl ed community dodged a bullet with the results of the MAC report. For a complete breakdown of that committee’s findings, read this PIE News article.
- UK - This news about the crippling financial state that 80% of UK universities will be in within the next three years is shocking. We talk about over-dependence on international student revenue. With the current downturn, it will take a monumental effort to reverse course.
- UK - The numbers aren’t pretty for applications to UK university post-graduate courses this year. A recent BUILA survey showed that 90% of responding unis showed a downturn, with an average 27% decline in applications.
- UK - If you’re looking for a post-mortem on how the UK got to this point in its international education nadir, read Louise Nicol’s piece in the University World News. Sober reading, indeed.
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