Immigration

The US government continually works to establish and strengthen professional relationships between academic institutions and local Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in order to preserve...

Of all the factors that can influence international student enrolments – from a country’s perceived safety or beauty to an institution’s reputation – visa processing...

Internships have long been part of the collegiate landscape, but their relationship to students’ future prospects has never been more direct. ICEF Monitor takes a...

Editor’s note – Updated post: the original version of this post incorrectly reported Germany’s international enrolment at 75,000 for the year 2000, whereas it was...

The European Union is taking steps to make it easier and more attractive for non-EU students and academics to study and work in Europe. A...

The Canadian government’s latest budget includes CDN $23 million dedicated to supporting its national international education strategy and CDN $42 million to improving visa processing...

On Monday this week, the British House of Commons Home Affairs Committee published a report that was highly critical of the UK Border Agency’s performance...

The number of new international students approved to study in New Zealand has dropped nearly 25% since the year before the first major earthquake, from...

Australia’s beleaguered international education industry has seen a couple of important developments of late. The first comes in the form of a long-awaited report from an...

As Canada rises up the ranks of leading destination countries for international students, its federal government is planning some important changes to the Canadian student...

A bipartisan group of Senators introduced a bill last week that would automatically grant green cards to international graduates of US universities with degrees in...

In a recent ICEF Monitor post, we asked: “Can the UK’s higher education sector retain its market share despite its government’s goals to reduce immigration...

There is much debate within British universities these days about numbers, specifically as they relate to the health of the higher education sector in the...

Australia has embraced working with student recruitment agencies for many years, and has well established training and guidelines for agent behaviour. Agency relationships with their...

Editor’s Note: For an update on more recent STEM legislation in the US, please see our related article “US one step closer towards passing STEM...