Internationalisation

Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Funded young researchers refused entry to UK, professional body warns

Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement

Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.

Flagship study-abroad scheme may have failed to attract desired numbers. Donna Bowater reports

Students dissatisfied with contact hours, QAA overseas provision review shows. Jack Grove writes

A study into transnational education has found that it can help train students to fill skills gaps in host countries, but also warned that it can contribute to a brain drain and has not led to enhanced research

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has called on British universities to help remedy the suppression of Burmese universities by the nation’s former military regime

East London institution is mired in difficulty as leadership disintegrates

V-c believes ‘radical solution’ is the way to rise up the rankings. John Morgan reports

Institution targets untapped foreign market

Asia breaks into the Universitas top 10 rankings

A grant of $500,000 (£320,000) from the Carnegie Corporation of New York has enabled Yale University to join forces with a wide range of international institutions to develop a global network of scholars devoted to the study of Asian topics.

Overseas students beat UK peers’ tariff scores on many courses, analysis suggests

Germany ensures degrees of highly skilled migrants are recognised. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

Chinese student at Bath convicted on bribery, firearms charges

UK settlement not on agenda for most, poll shows

Nicola Dandridge says mixed messages on immigration aid competitor nations’ university sectors

The first pan-European massive open online course initiative has been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.

Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

Australian approach offers lessons for UK, forum hears

Academics count the costs of Panorama’s North Korea exposé

Legal challenge helped save overseas students from deportation

Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE

Overseas students rejected on ‘arbitrary’ grounds, UKCISA report suggests

European countries that have a greater proportion of foreigners in their skilled workforce produce more highly cited research, a study has concluded.

Philip Altbach says global expansion may entrench the dominance of Western university systems

Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics

Former president says online courses could drive down costs

Nasir Warfa believes he is on a US security watch list, writes David Matthews

London Metropolitan University will again be allowed to recruit international students after the Home Office ended the revocation of its visa licence.

V-c aims for more international and postgraduate action

The continent’s burgeoning economies could prove a major source of future student recruitment, says Marguerite Dennis

Canadian human-rights case highlights disquiet at practices of Beijing-funded centres up on foreign campuses

Experiences highlight potential risks of overseas ventures for UK universities

‘Social engineering’ might be needed to help integrate international students, Sheffield pro v-c says

Archive’s historical material will be lost unless sector offers it a home

British Council discussions are under way, reports Donna Bowater from Rio de Janeiro

Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.

State lowers pay hurdle for overseas graduates as mandarin backs student migrants. David Matthews writes

The University Alliance mission group has gained another new member from Million+ while also announcing it is signing a partnership with its Australian counterpart.

Secretary general points to body’s valuable support for the developing world

Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.

Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports

Minister of education tells conference his country cannot progress without building foreign partnerships

University vice-chancellor reveals the struggle to educate students who have been brutalised by civil war

For long-term prosperity, universities in war-torn countries must focus on rebuilding infrastructure, conference hears

The Prime Minister has rejected calls to withdraw overseas university students from the government’s target to reduce net migration, saying the move “would not make any difference to our student migration policy”.

The Labour Party has warned that the government’s drive to reduce net migration is choking off the flow of “legitimate university students” while ignoring abuse of the visitor visa route used by English language students.

English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual

Tories may ban overseas students from using NHS

Death of Hugo Chavez unlikely to lead to changes within Venezuela’s ‘isolationist’ university system, says expert

International students add £120.3 million to the Sheffield economy each year, an in-depth analysis has concluded.

Ministers have written to Universities UK to urge the sector to waive the fees of Syrian students who have been impacted by the country’s civil war.

The United Arab Emirates is now “deeply inimical” to university values, according to a lecturer from the London School of Economics and Political Science who was barred from entering the country.

The number of visas issued to overseas students has fallen by a fifth although applications for university student visas have increased by 3 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics.

Confused political rhetoric on student visas threatens one of the UK’s greatest global assets, says Martin Davidson

State cuts lead sector to impose ‘arbitrary’ student targets. Phil Baty reports from New Orleans