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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.

Indian internet users surge up in last 6 months!

As per a recent report by IAMAI, internet users in India have grown immensely by adding 52 million users in the first 6...
South Asia
21/09/2015

Update on foreign education provider’s bill: PM Modi ropes in Niti Aayog

As a part of the, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative ’Make in India' campaign  which seeks to draw...
South Asia
21/09/2015

Vietnam-UK Education Cooperation Forum in London

A Joint Statement between the Ministry of Education and Training, the British Council in Vietnam and UK Higher...
East Asia
21/09/2015

Singapore universities in top 13 of world rankings

The latest QS World University Rankings for 2015/2016, released earlier this week, placed National University of...
East Asia
18/09/2015

New Scholarship Programme in Botswana

The British Council Botswana have recently signed a contract with Debswana Diamond Mining Company to manage its...
Middle East & Africa
17/09/2015

IIE Best Practices: Tips for comprehensive alumni engagement

The Institute of International Education (IIE) hosted a meeting on alumni engagement as part of their Global Education...
Americas, United Kingdom
16/09/2015

Behind the statistics: demand for UK school education in Hong Kong

Although 2015 saw a marginal increase of 1.7%* in the total number of students from Hong Kong in UK independent schools...
East Asia
15/09/2015

An increase observed in number of Indian students searching online for overseas education

A study was done with 2.8 million visits and searches that were captured on ‘Overseas Education page’ of Sulekha.com...
South Asia
11/09/2015

Competitor update - India and Australia Educational tie-ups

India HRD Minister Smriti Irani and the Australian Minister for Education and Training Christopher Pyne have signed MoU...
South Asia
11/09/2015

Launch of Online Engagement Services for marketing to local audiences in Europe

The British Council SIEM Europe has launched a range of online engagement services to help UK education institutions...

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