2015 Student Mobility Forecast

February 10, 2015 by NAFSA

With new tools providing greater understanding of the motives for student mobility and what drives students to seek out educational experiences abroad, international education professionals now have the unique opportunity to better anticipate where the next educational destination will be.
To help uncover what 2015 holds for the student travel market, NAFSA invited Atle Skalleberg, CEO of StudentUniverse, a technology company that empowers students and youth to travel, to share his company's insight on what their data is telling them about trends to expect in the coming months.

澳門4所大學 聯袂來台招生 - 中時電子報

▲2013年底台灣開始承認澳門學歷。圖為澳門大學。（記者簡立欣攝）

澳門大學橫琴新校區。（記者簡立欣攝）

澳門大專校院將聯袂來台招生！澳門大學、澳門理工學院、澳門科技大學、澳門旅遊學院3月7日、8日都將赴台參加大學博覽會；由於澳門各校對台招生方式、時間不同，有的要另行筆試、面試，有些是免試入學，有意申請澳門校院的考生要注意。

International Student Mobility Trends 2015: An Economic Perspective - WENR

By Alejandro Ortiz, Li Chang,  Yuanyuan Fang - WES Research & Advisory Services

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International students contributed almost $27 billion dollars to the U.S. economy in 2014, which corresponds to a 12 percent increase versus 2013 ($24 billion). The growth has been driven largely by students from upper-middle-income economies and countries with large national scholarship programs, which marks a significant shift from before the 2008 financial crisis.

International Education News l The PIE News l NZ: International students up 12%; sector worth $2.85bn

NZ: International students up 12%; sector worth $2.85bn

New Zealand's international education industry is now valued at NZ$2.85bn (US$2.12bn) following 12% year-on-year growth in student numbers for the first two trimesters of 2014, new statistics published by Education New Zealand reveal.

韓國全面審查各大學留學生招生資格

韓國雖設定2020年外國學生人數要達20萬人，然近幾年招收外國學生人數趨緩，進入盤整期，思維已從「數量至上」轉為「質量並重」。臺灣招收外生人數尚在持續攀升，教育部先於韓國五年，早已有「質量並重」之觀念，先後執行「大專校院國際化實地訪視（交由FICHET執行）」、「全英語學位學程評鑑（交由HEEACT執行）」、「專案公費生探訪（交由ESIT執行）」「大專校院國際化品質認證試辦計畫（交由NISA執行）」等專案，喚醒各大學校院重視國際化品質的提昇，並確保外國學生學習權益。

韓國政府起步雖較慢，但魄力十足，管理不當的大學院大學將被限制招收外國學生。我國的機制較為溫和，多從「體檢、建議、改善」方面著手，並未對招生績效不佳之學校開鍘。兩國呈現截然不同的風貌，亦可有相互借鏡之處。

IIE Announces Winners of the 2015 Heiskell Awards

IIE Announces Winners of the 2015 Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education

Thirteen Campuses Recognized For Their Outstanding International Initiatives

NEW YORK, January 26, 2015—The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. The awards honor the most outstanding initiatives in international higher education among the member campuses of the IIE Network, IIE's membership association of more than 1,400 higher education institutions. This year's awards highlight a total of ten initiatives that are being conducted by thirteen campuses: five campuses will receive the Heiskell Award and eight more will be recognized with honorable mention. The winners this year are notable for their geographic diversity, with campuses in nine U.S. states across the country as well as universities in Ethiopia, South Korea and Russia.
IIE's Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalizing the campus, study abroad, and international partnership programs in practice today, with a particular emphasis on initiatives that remove institutional barriers and broaden the base of participation in study abroad and international teaching and learning on campus.

National survey shows Canadian universities more focused on internationalisation

26 Jan 2015

A significant majority of Canadian universities – 82% – now place internationalisation among their top five strategic priorities, says a new survey of Canada's degree-granting institutions. This represents a 5% increase over a previous survey in 2006, and leads a broad set of findings that all clearly point to an increasing emphasis on international programmes and services among the country's higher education institutions.
When asked to identify their main reasons for prioritising internationalisation, 53% of Canadian universities say that "preparing internationally knowledgeable and interculturally competent graduates" is their top motivation. The other most-cited reasons are "building strategic alliances and partnerships with key institutions abroad, promoting an internationalised campus, increasing the university's global profile, and generating revenue."
The survey was carried out by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) in May 2014 and generated an 80% response rate among the 97 universities and degree-granting colleges within the AUCC membership. AUCC released its detailed findings in December 2014.
"Not since our last survey in 2006 has there been such a comprehensive view of AUCC member institutions' engagement with the world beyond our borders," said Paul Davidson, AUCC's president and CEO. "The responding institutions together represent more than 85% of all Canadian university students and perform roughly 92% of the university research funded by federal research granting agencies."