Yesterday, Canada unveiled a report assessing the economic contributions that international students make to the country. Entitled Economic Impact of International Education in Canada, the report was presented by Stockwell Day, the Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, at a meeting of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).
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Measuring the economic value of Canada’s international education “industry”
Posted in Canada, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, export education, tagged Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, export education, Government of Canada, Roslyn Kunin & Associates, services exports, Stockwell Day on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Indian students in Australia: how did it come to this?
Posted in Australia, Brain mobility, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, India, Uncategorized, tagged Australia, Australian higher education, Australian tertiary education, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, Indian students on August 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Editor’s note: this contribution, by Christopher Ziguras examines the complex factors shaping ongoing debates, and recent crisis, about Indian students in Australia. Christopher Ziguras (pictured to the right) is Associate Professor of International Studies in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne. His research focuses on international education policy, particularly [...]
Economic benefits of international education to the United States
Posted in Foreign Students, USA, export education, service exports, tagged Department of State, Foreign Students, IIE, Institute for International Education, international students, NAFSA, service exports, State Department, US universities on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: this guest entry was kindly prepared by Jason Baumgartner (pictured to the right) of Indiana University in the United States. Jason has worked for the Office of International Services at Indiana University since 1999. He is the lead software developer of the iOffice application suite, which is a comprehensive immigration case management solution [...]
More debates about foreign technology workers (many of whom were foreign students) in the USA
Posted in Foreign Students, Immigration, Regional development, USA, University-industry linkages, migration, skilled migration, tagged brain circulation, entrepreneurship, Foreign Students, H-1B visa, H-IB, Innovation, skilled immigrants, skilled migration on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Further to our 6 April entry ‘Debating the possible decline of the USA’s attractiveness to foreign students and highly skilled foreign professionals‘, the New York Times sponsored a related debate (‘Do We Need Foreign Technology Workers?‘) on 8 April. The six contributors (and the titles of their statements) are:
Vivek Wadhwa, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke [...]
Debating the possible decline of the USA’s attractiveness to foreign students and highly skilled foreign professionals
Posted in Foreign Students, Immigration, Regional development, USA, University-industry linkages, migration, skilled migration, tagged brain circulation, entrepreneurship, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Foreign Students, H-1B visa, H-IB, Innovation, Kauffman Foundation, skilled immigrants, skilled migration on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The USA’s experience with the ongoing economic crisis has been generating some illuminating debates about the possible tightening of post-graduation options for foreign students (including in the STEM disciplines, as well as in Business). Today’s Washington Post, for example, includes an article titled ‘U.S. visa limits hit Indian workers: job offers rescinded or hard to [...]
Graphic feed: Australia’s dependence (2007-2008) upon foreign students
Posted in Australia, Foreign Students, Services, service exports, tagged Australian higher education, Australian universities, Review of Australian Higher Education, service exports, Services, services industries on December 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Source: Australian Government (2008) Review of Australian Higher Education: Final Report, December, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
International education activity in Australia up 23 per cent from previous financial year
Posted in Asia, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, Services, service exports, tagged Asian students, Australian higher education, Australian universities, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, higher education services, service exports, services industries on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Australia is continuing to see rapid growth in the export of education (including higher education) services, and the associated generation of export income. Today’s Australian Education International’s AEI eNewsletter, which is well worth subscribing to if you are interested in GlobalHigherEd (which you must be if you are visiting this weblog!), includes a link to [...]
China: from ‘emerging contender’ to ‘serious player’ in cross-border student mobility
Posted in Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, France, Germany, USA, exchange students, internationalization, tagged higher education, Foreign Students, USA, universities, Student mobility, France, Germany, China, service exports, cross border supply, Institute for International Education, service imports, diplomacy on September 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last year we carried a series of reports (see here, here and here) on the global distribution of student mobility. While the US and the UK had the lion’s share of this market, with 22% and 12% respectively, we noted China had made big gains. With 7% of the global market and in 6th [...]
Sweetening Canada’s offer in the race for global talent: a new immigration class eases the route to permanent residency for foreign students
Posted in Brain mobility, Canada, Foreign Students, Immigration, Student mobility, tagged Add new tag, Canada, Foreign Students, Immigration, international students, skilled migration on August 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
International students are the focus of front-page news in Canada this week with the launch of the long-anticipated new immigration scheme, the “Canadian Experience Class.”
Intended to fast-track foreign students and skilled workers currently in Canada from temporary migrant to permanent resident status (and potentially to Canadian citizens), this new program continues a series of recent [...]
Graphic feed: growing global demand for higher education (2000-2025)
Posted in Asia, Brain mobility, Cross-Border Higher Education, Foreign Students, Germany, Student mobility, tagged Foreign Students, international students, university students on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Brandenburg, U., Carr, D., Donauer, S., Berthold, C. (2008) Analysing the Future Market – Target Countries for German HEIs, Working paper No. 107, CHE Centre for Higher Education Development, Gütersloh, Germany, p. 13.
Video feed: Chambre 124, Cité International Universitaire de Paris (dir. Fabio Brasil, 2006)
Posted in Foreign Students, France, Paris, Student mobility, tagged Add new tag, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, exchange students, Foreign Students, international students, Paris on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris: walking through one past, present, and future (?) of global higher ed
Posted in Foreign Students, France, Student mobility, exchange students, tagged Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, European universities, exchange students, international students, Paris, philanthropy on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Near the end of my sabbatical year in Paris (and Europe more generally), I spent some time taking photographs on the grounds of La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, which is located on a 34 hectare site in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
I used to spend a lot of time on the lovely grounds of [...]
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