Aug 25th, 2010
Japan, China and South Korea agree to 26 million visitors by 2015
In a joint statement made by the tourism chiefs of Japan, China and South Korea from their trilateral meeting in China on 22 August, it was agreed that they would try to double 2009 “intervisitation” figures. They aim to welcome 26 million people to their three countries by 2015. A total of 13.5 million people traveled [...]
Aug 18th, 2010
China Passes Japan as Second-Largest Economy
China is the right place, right now, for the global tourism industry – precisely why the World Youth & Student Travel Conference is coming to Beijing this October. After three decades of spectacular growth, China passed Japan in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States, according to government figures [...]
May 20th, 2010
100 College Leaders To Be Trained Overseas In 2010
China will start a program this year to send 100 college leaders overseas to receive short term training in foreign countries including Japan, the US, England and Australia, the Beijing News reported Tuesday. The program, initiated by China’s Ministry of Education and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, aims to let Chinese college leaders learn [...]
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 [...]
Feb 4th, 2010
Australia the top choice for Japanese school excursions
Australia is the number one destination for Japanese school excursions and study tours, according to a report by the Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In the 2007-08 Japanese financial year, 43,669 Japanese students visited Australia, of whom 34,802 arrived for school excursions and 8,867 came for language study tours. After Australia, [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
International Students and U.S. Global Power in the Long 20th Century
It was 1951 and Rozella Switzer, post-mistress of McPherson, Kansas, a prosperous, conservative, nearly all-white oil town of 9,000 people on the Eastern edge of the wheat belt, had not seen the Nigerians coming. That Fall, seven African students, all male, in their early- and mid-20’s, had arrived in the area to attend McPherson College [...]
May 25th, 2009
India sends more students to New Zealand
The number of students coming from India for higher education in New Zealand has recorded a three-fold increase during the past nine months, according to Immigration New Zealand statistics.
May 7th, 2009
Higher Education on the Move
An estimated 2.9 million students worldwide are pursuing their educations outside their home countries, a 57 percent increase since 1999. At a round table discussion at the Institute of International’s Education’s Washington offices Tuesday, coinciding with the release of the institute’s new book, Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility, participants discussed [...]
Apr 28th, 2009
GLOBAL: End of the education gold rush?
Up until the onset of the world financial crisis, selling higher education to foreign students had become the new global gold rush for universities across the developed countries. Whereas 600,000 students went abroad to study for their degrees in 1975, by 2000 the number had hit 1.8 million, five years later it reached 2.7 million. [...]
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