Acumen announces collaborations to enhance Indian students’ visa application experiences.

The new collaborations with VFS Global and One VASCO will provide services to Indian students who enroll with Acumen’s UK university partners.  Students can now complete their visa applications and biometrics without needing to attend visa application centers by visiting any Acumen India office, starting in Delhi and eventually spreading to Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, and […]

Korea intends to increase CSAT scores for students abroad.

International acceptance of a nationalized exam that is administered in Korea is growing, which may help the nation increase the proportion of its students who study elsewhere. The nation’s standardized exam to “evaluate academic prowess and subject-specific expertise” is called the College Scholastic Aptitude Test, but it functions differently from the SAT or A-Levels. According […]

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Post-study visa route dominated by Indians should stay, finds UK review

A review commissioned by the British government concluded in a report on Tuesday that the post-study visa route, which is dominated by Indian graduates, is expanding the country’s research landscape and helping UK universities make up for financial losses on the home front. UK Home Secretary James Cleverly had given the independent Migration Advisory Committee […]

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UK universities at risk as international student numbers plunge

On Tuesday, a government-commissioned assessment warned that if Britain continues to restrict the number of international students it accepts, some universities may fail. The warning came as foreign registrations for the upcoming academic year fell precipitously. The political debate in Britain has long been dominated by high levels of legal migration, which served as a […]

Canada: International students can only work 24 hours a week

The Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship of Canada, Marc Miller, declared on Tuesday that foreign students will now be limited to working a 24-hour workweek.  “When we lifted the 20 hrs/week work rule for international students, we did so to support the post-pandemic recovery. Today, I announced that this measure will no longer be […]