#ReimagineEducation: the Twitter round-up

Seminar

We’ve been following the #ReimagineEducation awards with excitement these last few days, and it seems Twitter has been doing the same! We’ve rounded up some of our favourite tweets from the event. If you missed out, take a look to see what happened: A successful few days: Nunzio Quacquarelli kicks off this year's #ReimagineEducation conference

The Online Degrees Tackling The Brain Drain

Online courses

One of the largest online vocational education providers, the Paris-based OpenClassrooms, is aiming to tackle the brain drain in developing countries. OpenClassrooms is the largest online course provider in Europe and Africa. The website currently has around 3.5 million unique visitors every month and offers both short-term MOOCs and longer programmes which lead to full

International student enrolment in Canada is on the rise

Justin Trudeau

International student enrolment in Canada grew by almost 10% last year, according to a report from the Canadian Bureau for International Education. There were 353,570 international students in Canada in 2015, an increase of 8% on 2014. These statistics, however, only refer to those who hold a permit for extended studies. If the data included

Record Number of Indian Students in the USA

This year, the number of Indian students in the USA has grown by 25% to reach its highest-recorded level since 1999. According to a report by the Institute of International Education (IIE), around 165,918 students are currently enrolled in the country, up from 132,888 in 2015. The news comes after a huge decline in the

Emerging African Student Markets: Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria

Africa

As we’ve previously discussed, the burgeoning middle class in a number of African nations looks likely to cause an increase in international students seeking educational opportunities abroad. Our latest report explores three of the major up-and-coming international student exporters in the continent: Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria. Below we’ve summarised what students from each of these