News

The latest education market news from our UK and local country staff and from selected external sources, focusing on issues affecting UK education, from changes to higher education policy and student visa procedures, to competitor analysis and media coverage.

Surge in postgraduates puts pressure on advisers

In the wake of studies showing the number of postgraduate students had doubled in the past decade, education insiders...
East Asia
01/11/2012

Foreign schools woo Chinese students

The China Education Expo 2012 kicked off on 17 October in Beijing, attracting more than 500 overseas institutions and...
East Asia
01/11/2012

Graduate school graduates applying for menial jobs

Job opportunities as cleaners and drivers at government-affiliated institutions in a Northeast China city have...
East Asia
01/11/2012

Overseas education to countries of minority languages becoming popular in China

Students paying more attention to employment background of overseas education
East Asia
01/11/2012

Skilled workforce needed for oil and gas industry

The government urged the oil and gas industry to work with higher learning institutions in designing training courses...
East Asia
01/11/2012

Incoming president recognises the British Council Mexico and remarks his interest in increasing mobility to the UK

Last month the Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto visited the UK and had a meeting with David Cameron and Nick...
Americas
01/11/2012

Debt, jobs, diversity and who gets in: A survey of admissions directors

Inside Higher Ed in collaboration with Gallup has released a report detailing the results from a joint survey of...
Americas
31/10/2012

Hong Kong’s education reforms: market implications

Hong Kong is a market in transition following the implementation of education reforms and 2012 was the landmark year,...
East Asia
30/10/2012

Massification continues to transform higher education

Higher education participation and enrolment has expanded considerably over the past century. The number of students...
Central Asia
30/10/2012

Modernising higher education and the workforce

Key messages of the European Commission's agenda for the modernisation of higher education – a central plank of the EU'...
Central Asia
30/10/2012

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