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Australian Industry News

• VET pushes for post-study work rights

  Post-study work rights for international students at Australian universities must be extended to VET, say the sector’s peak bodies. The Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) and TAFE Directors Australia (TDA) say new post-study visa arrangements, which came into.

• Asian century to forge stronger research links

  This next wave -- aimed at "educational richness and not simple revenue payoff'' -- follows the full-fee export education industry that peaked in 2008-09 and the post-war Colombo Plan with its use of education as regional aid, UA says in a submission to the Asian century white paper.

• Acquire Any Visas to Australia and Know the Reasons Why it is a Great Nation!

  The Land Down Under is abounding with interesting attractions, both natural and man-made. Stunning iconic architectures of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge as well as the stunning yet unusual natural feature of the Australian Outback, with its sheer size and wide stretch of dese

• Worldwide student numbers forecast to double by 2025

  In a new book, higher education consultant Bob Goddard writes that the worldwide increase is being fuelled by greater numbers of young people entering the peak education ages along with sharply rising participation rates, especially in the non-compulsory education years.

• Simplifying student visas

  The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, today announced the Government will make the visa application process easier for students from 29 countries by reducing assessment levels across a range of student visa subclasses from 24 March.

Global Industry News

• Knocking the door open - Nixon's China trip and its legacy

  Robert Tansey, who was born in New Jersey in the 1950s, has lived a life that probably would have been much different if Nixon hadn't made his historic visit to China on Feb.

• Attacks on international students down

  THE number of attacks on international students in the Canning area is decreasing, according to South East Metropolitan Crime Prevention and Diversity Unit Sergeant Steve Banks.

• China-U.S. people-people exchanges to be advanced

  BEIJING, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- China is ready to work with the United States to advance people-to-people exchange between the two peoples, Education Minister Yuan Guiren said in a bylined article prior to Vice President Xi Jinping's official visit to the U.

• US Changing Visa Rules To Attract The Highly-skilled

• Increase in foreign students studying in U.S.

  At the University of Washington in Seattle, 18 percent of freshmen come from abroad, most from China, reports Tamar Lewin for the New York Times. University of Washington foreign students pay $28,059, almost three times as much as in-state students, according to the university’s payment schedule.

USA Industry News

• Chinese in Midlands a beneficial exchange

  LINCOLN — Chinese international student Wen Guo finished the first week of her accounting class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with no clue what her instructor said.

• $51 million student residence set to open

  An ultra-modern hall of residence in Whitaker Place for 442 University of Auckland students opens this week. University Hall, with twin towers linked on a two-level podium, will boost fully catered accommodation at the University by 60 percent.

• Chinese students flock to Iowa

  NEW YORK - In a trend that is occurring across the United States, Iowa's universities have experienced a rapid surge in enrollment by Chinese students in the past few years, officials report.

• US Changing Visa Rules To Attract The Highly-skilled

• Increase in foreign students studying in U.S.

  At the University of Washington in Seattle, 18 percent of freshmen come from abroad, most from China, reports Tamar Lewin for the New York Times. University of Washington foreign students pay $28,059, almost three times as much as in-state students, according to the university’s payment schedule.

UK Industry News

• Go-getters don’t have to go home: government tweaks student visas

  Graduates entrepreneurs with “world-class innovative ideas” will be allowed to remain in the UK beyond their university studies, as the government responds to criticisms of its new visa regime for overseas students.

• Students Are Being Offered Free Counseling, scholarships and Much For Studying at UK, U.S. and Canada

  An education fair is being organized by IDP Education

• All-party group to probe postgraduate education

  Research Fortnight Today

• Making a difference

  BRIGHT World Guardianships Ltd are looking to recruit host families to take care of their international students in UK boarding schools. Bright World is a long-established company offering care to international students in UK boarding schools whose parents are not living here.

• Most educated countries

  In the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200 per cent, according to Education at a Glance 2011, a recently published report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).