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“Recruiting international students has been taken as a strategy to strengthen China’s soft power,” says a recent article in the Journal of Studies in International Education. That, along...

“Online learning – the use of the Internet to provide or augment formal education – has grown up. Still viewed as novel or innovative in some quarters, online learning...

The past few years have been a period of increasing dynamism in the international education sector, as the following factors have combined to influence both the ability of...

The Chinese Ministry of Education has approved the termination of 234 Sino-foreign partnership programmes and jointly managed institutions. The closures represent roughly 10% of the 2,342 Sino-foreign cooperative...

More than a third of the world's 300 largest cities are now found in China. Rather than Beijing and Shanghai, it is the next...

The latest statistics from China’s Ministry of Education highlight another year of strong growth for China’s foreign enrolment. The Ministry reports a total of 489,200 international students enrolled...

For years, Chinese students have been flocking to foreign universities to study – often staying on to work after graduating. As recently as 2013, the US-based National Science Foundation...

It has been a rocky few years for some of the world’s largest emerging economies. An overall weakness in commodity markets – notably the drop in world oil prices...

On 21 September, the Government of China introduced a new programme that will aim to further boost a select group of Chinese universities toward world class status. The...

China has been the key driver of overall growth in international student mobility over the last two decades...