I met Eh Nay in the lobby of Crystal Palace, a hotel just a stone’s throw away from the Parami Institute in Yangon, Myanmar, where I serve as an educational adviser. I slowly sipped a glass of water and listened closely to a passionate account of his international internship with KESAN along the Burma-Thai border. Eh Nay Thaw is part of a group of nine interns

There has been an 18% rise in the number of Nepalese students studying in the US over the last year, growing at a rate that far outstripped the overall 2% growth in international student numbers, which reached 1.18 million in May 2017. More than three-quarters (77%) of the 1,184,735 international students in the US on an F-1 (academic), M-1 (vocational) or J-1 (exchange

Senior officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are reportedly considering a controversial plan to require more than one million international students to reapply annually to stay in the United States. The proposal, first reported in The Washington Post, would require regulatory changes and so is far from a done deal. But coming on top of the Trump administration’s

  Youth and student travellers coming to the UK contribute £22.3bn to the country’s economy, more than the top 20 football clubs or budget airline Ryanair. Higher education, further education and language travel are the sectors within youth travel providing the biggest boosts to the economy, according to a report by the British Education and Travel Association. However, with average

Survey results released Thursday offer a first look at yield rates of prospective international students — that is, the percentage who accept an offer of admission for the fall — and suggest that universities may see different patterns depending on where in the U.S. they’re located. The yield rate for international undergraduates declined modestly from 26 to 24 percent from fall