25 November 2016
Our partner, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently launched the Nebraska Food for Health Center, a more than US$40 million initiative to improve the lives of people around the world. Prospective students who are interested in one day pursuing a career in fields relating to agriculture, nutrition and medicine have the opportunity to get involved in…
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18 November 2016
Sydney, AUS – EduCo International has announced a new partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), giving international students the opportunity to collaborate and be involved in industry placements while they study. NJIT has a rich history dating back 130 years which has cemented the institution’s reputation for being one of the leading…
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21 July 2016
INTRODUCTION Standardized external tests of English language proficiency such as TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and IELTS (International English Language Testing System) are widely accepted as a means of assessing the English proficiency of international students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESBs). Although the score a student achieves in an external test is…
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29 April 2016
Successful international student recruitment is a major on-going challenge for higher education institutions. There is an ever increasing competition for qualified, motivated students with the capacity to pay international tuition fees. The USA, Britain, Canada and Australia are largely competing for the same students. Additionally, there are new players on the scene from other English-speaking…
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26 April 2016
Sydney, NSW and Baltimore, Maryland, 26 April 2016 – The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and global education group, EduCo International, today announced a strategic partnership to help improve international student access to UMBC’s highly acclaimed graduate programs. The partnership will support the transition of international students into UMBC’s STEM focused graduate programs. UMBC…
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09 March 2016
“We can’t do it ourselves” This was the comment that punctuated the conversation between a senior mid-western US university Enrolment executive and our Senior Vice-President Business Development recently about the opportunity for a partnership for recruitment of international students to the school. The Enrolment vice-president told us that they did not have the scale to…
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28 January 2016
by: Dr. Rod Gillett, EduCo, Group Education Director “International students tend to ‘ghetto-ise’ themselves.” (University World News, 29 August 2014) The above quote comes from a piece written by acclaimed international higher education researcher Phillip Altbach of Boston College’s Center for Higher Education, and it reveals much about the lack of academic, cultural, and social…
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In the latest rankings from U.S. News and World Report, UNL maintained its position as one of the nation’s top public universities. According to the publication’s 2016 rankings, UNL checks in at No. 47 among public universities and was tied with four other institutions at No. 103 when considering all national universities, public and private,…
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