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    The report opens with an Executive Summary in which the authors reference the sources they have used to track cross-border education activity. The more nuanced elements of the research are utilised when tracking programmes, teachers...

  • This report is designed to provide you with a window onto Hong Kong's education system and student population, giving you the social, economic and demographic data on what shapes the city's higher education sector. Hong Kong has experienced...

  • This report is designed to provide you with a window onto Ghana's education system and student population, giving you the social, economic and demographic data on what shapes the country's higher education sector. Ghana has a young and expanding...

STUDENT INSIGHT HOT TOPICS: Transnational Education

This is one of a series of reports produced by Education Intelligence that explores Hot Topics in the arena of international higher education from perspective of students globally. This series is produced by analysing the huge wealth of decision making data collected by Education Intelligence since February 2007 via our on-going questionnaire based survey, and qualitative interviews and focus groups carried out by the team.

STUDENT INSIGHT HOT TOPICS: Safety

This is one of a series of reports produced by Education Intelligence that explores Hot Topics in the arena of international higher education from perspective of students globally. This series is produced by analysing the huge wealth of decision making data collected by Education Intelligence since February 2007 via our on-going questionnaire based survey, and qualitative interviews and focus groups carried out by the team.

Alerts on International Higher Education

Here’s our favorite pick from this month’s news in international higher education.

What is the next big thing in international education?

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Lower-grade foreign queue-jumpers a ‘myth’

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Aung San Suu Kyi seeks UK help for Burma’s universities

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International agents: how can students and universities tell good from bad?

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Seeking college edge, Chinese pupils arrive in New York earlier

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