Apr 26th, 2010
Economy takes toll on study abroad programs
It’s your world: Explore it. That’s the message semester-abroad coordinators are sending students but students are struggling to take advantage of those programs because of the economic crisis. “My dream is to go to Rome and see all their beautiful architecture but it’s too expensive,” said Anika Chowdhury, sophomore architecture student at Virginia Commonwealth University. [...]
Apr 21st, 2010
Tom Griffiths remarks at ATEC
Evolving, elusive backpackers are becoming the experts of travel, using technology to bypass businesses according to GapYear.com founder Tom Griffiths. Speaking at the ATEC Backpacker and Youth Industry Conference in Hobart this morning, Griffiths said compared to 10 years ago, today’s backpackers have evolved through technology and are becoming travel experts, telling each other how [...]
Apr 21st, 2010
ATEC delegates agree discounting is killing product and investment
Discounting in the backpacker accommodation sector is hampering product development and inward investment, delegates at the ATEC Backpacker and Youth Industry Conference have agreed. Participants in a breakout session focussing on accommodation cited unsustainable discounting as a major challenge for the industry, with guilty parties unable to reinvest in their businesses and having to cut [...]
Apr 16th, 2010
Foreign Language Learning and Study Abroad are Stronger Together
An article published by the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the recent trend of increases in U.S. students studying Arabic and other languages deemed by the federal government to be “critical foreign languages.” The Chronicle reports that resources provided by the federal government to colleges and universities in the past decade have strengthened programs in [...]
Apr 13th, 2010
Indian student wants more educational exchange with China
China and India have seen many educational exchanges in recent years, and it will be better if more scholarship and cooperation projects are open to Indian students, said an Indian student at the India-China Development Forum in Beijing on Tuesday. Share and Enjoy:
Apr 13th, 2010
Interns Head Abroad for Work Experience
Students with few job prospects are increasingly heading overseas to add international experience to their résumés By Alison Damast In December 2008, Matthew Moughan found himself floundering in one of the worst job markets for college graduates in nearly two decades when he graduated from Marquette University (Marquette Undergraduate Business Profile). The economics major hoped [...]
Apr 13th, 2010
How web 2.0 is impacting language travel students
It wasn’t that many years ago that the internet revolutionised the way language schools operated around the world, opening up a whole new marketing tool, and with it a way of quickly, easily, and, most importantly, affordably reaching your market. Well now it’s happened again, and web 2.0 is changing the language travel industry! Go [...]
Apr 13th, 2010
Mancession Hits Educational Travel
‘Mancession’ Hits Educational Travel: 70 Percent Of Travelers Are High School Girls, Not Boys Says National Educational Travel Council (NETC) NETC Finds Young Women Are Increasingly Better Positioned For College Admission And To Succeed In The Global Economy Research by NETC shows that nearly 7 in 10 high school students who participate in teacher-led international [...]
Apr 13th, 2010
International Education Is Key to Making Immigration Reform Work for America
There is near-universal agreement that the U.S. immigration system is broken, but much less agreement on how to fix it. NAFSA believes that Congress must recognize the pivotal role of international education and include reforms that expand the United States’ ability to attract foreign students and scholars from around the world. They fuel our economy [...]
Apr 13th, 2010
New Jersey family’s au pair has been named Au Pair of the Year
Mayumi Yano, a 24-year old au pair from Musashi Murayamashi, Japan was honored as the 2010 International Au Pair of the Year at a waterfront ceremony in Miami, Florida. Each year the International Au Pair Association (IAPA) honors the one au pair whom they feel embodies the true spirit of being an au pair at [...]
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