When studying abroad, money is no object

Overseas students head to Britain for high teaching quality, to the United States to improve career prospects and to Germany for cheap tuition fees, the British Council’s Student Decision Making Survey reveals.

This is according to the British education news site Times Higher Education.

The British Council survey was conducted over three years and includes information gathered from around 115,000 students, from 200 countries.

Money is no object

Tough to find jobs in Denmark

International students are ‘low-hanging fruit’ that should be plucked by hungry Danish businesses. And Denmark should position itself to ‘skim the cream’, and hire more talented students coming from overseas.

These were just a few of the metaphors used by industry speakers at a seminar in Copenhagen in June, writes the Agency for International Education (IU).

That industry representatives have to talk up the value of internationals at all shows that there is a paradox in the Danish labour market.

Too many internationals just go home

France tops Erasmus mobility charts

In Europe, the French are now leading the way in terms of international student mobility.

This is according to education news site Universityworldnews.com.

More than 28,000 French students set out for a semester or two abroad with the scheme last year - an increase of around nine per cent.

The Germans had, prior to this, held first place in terms of Erasmus mobility since 2003.

Scandinavia lures more students

Students to report from Greenland

In July and August, five talented students from different parts of the world will visit the University of Copenhagen research station in Qeqertarsuaq, in central West Greenland.

This is according to a press release from the Danish Ministry of Science's Agency for International Education.

The students, from India, Pakistan, Canada, Cameroon and Nigeria respectively were awarded grants to study climate change, as part of the international climate conference held in Copenhagen last December.

Video blog from the Arctic

Border controls to keep bogus students out

The United Kingdom and Australia have this week announced stricter visa regulations for international students. And in the USA, application procedures have become tighter and tighter since 9/11.

The measures are designed to keep bogus students, freeloaders and terrorists out. This is according to the higher education newssite Universityworldnews.

In the UK, there are stringent new rules for overseas students applying for student visas, while in Australia, the squeeze affects existing internationals applying for permanent residency.

Protection demanded for international students

A spate of attacks against overseas students in Australia and the murder of Nitin Garg, a 21 year old Indian graduate student at the Central Queensland University, have led to demands for a cross border agency to improve security for international students, writes Times Higher Education.

The proposed agency, which would support international students on physical safety, financial, work, housing and welfare issues, was discussed by Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at the University of Melbourne, in a speech to the World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Swedish jitters over proposed fees for foreigners

A proposed fee for international students has the Swedish government and universities at loggerheads.

While the Swedish government says that it hopes to maintain foreign student numbers following the introduction of fees, the universities see a host of problems, writes University World News.

This includes a paradoxical boom in potential foreign students applying next year so as to start their studies before fees are introduced in 2011.

English-taught only for non-Swedes

Study shows where brains drain, or gain

A recent investigation shows what draws scientists to certain countries, shedding light on Denmark's attraction to foreign researchers and PhD students. The work surveyed active scientists from 16 countries, asking where they originated from, why they had moved and if they ever planned to return to their county of origin.

See the paper and the rest of its data here.

In Greece, social media replaces cash

In Greece, social media are increasingly helping people to help each other.

This is according to Eleni-Revekka Staiou, a PhD student who is researching the new phenomenon in Athens. As we publish, Greece is openly considering leaving the eurozone after five years of economic recession, massive cuts to public spending and a series of financial bailouts.