Taiwan’s prime minister has the goal of making Taiwan bilingual (Mandarin and English) and as part of this goal, the country is looking to improve the English of its teachers as well as to recruit more native English speaking teachers.
Read more in the EL Gazette.
In November, nine Inlingua schools abruptly closed due to bankruptcy of the local operator. Over 500 students were stranded and staff was left unpaid.
Read more in the EL Gazette.
The University of Alberta and, to a lesser extent, the University of Calgary, have deep ties to China and even Huawei itself. There are concerns about the future of funding and flow of Chinese students as a result of the recent diplomatic tensions between Canada and China, though there is no indication as of yet that China plans to retaliate by blocking funding or students.
Read more on the CBC.
MOSAIC, an immigrant services organization in Vancouver, is working to improve the support available for international students who are the victims of sexual assault. The CEO of the organization believes that international students are more vulnerable because they are more likely to be isolated, lack a social network and are navigating a different cultural context.
Read more on the CBC.
Cape Breton university in Sydney, Nova Scotia has seen a huge increase in international students this year. The unfortunate side of this story is that many of these students are unable to find part time work and, worried about their dwindling savings, have turned to a local soup kitchen to eat.
Read more on the CBC.
While Chinese students are still the largest group of international students at the University of British Columbia, Indian enrollment grew 263% from the school year of 2013/2014 to 2017/2018.
Read more in the Daily Hive.
There are roughly 600,000 Chinese students studying abroad and they add a lot of money into the coffers of colleges and universities. In Canada, roughly one in three international students is Chinese. An Illinois college was so worried about the fallout of the Trump trade war that they actually took out an insurance policy with Lloyds of London.
For a short article that has some really fun details on this, read more in the Vancouver Sun.
Do you see yourself as a visual learner? Or perhaps a musical learner? The theory of learning styles is almost a hundred years old and endures to this day, despite the fact that there is little evidence to support the theory. Gain some insight into the different sides of the debate from a recent article in Inside Higher Ed.
Statistics Canada has reported that revenue for all 166 public Canadian colleges, cegeps and polytechnics rose 0.2 billion in 2016/17 over the previous academic year. As provincial funding has remained flat for several years, the increase in revenue is due to larger tuition being collected. There has been an increase of 27.2% in tuition since 2012/2013. It is important to note that a large part of this increase in tuition revenue is due to the 55% increase in international students.
Read more from Statistics Canada.
The University of Prince Edward Island saw a large increase in the number of fraudulent international student applications in the 2017-2018 school year, up to 50 while the number was only 10 two years ago. The director of recruitment at the university attributes 60 per cent to people who wanted to study but did not have the grades needed to enter the university, while he says the rest are people who are trying to gain access to Canada in order to work illegally.
Read more on CBC.
