December 5, 2013
By Elizabeth Redden

A main takeaway of a new British Council report analyzing trends in Indian student mobility is that there is no one single trend. The growth in India's own higher education system has been rapid at the same time that the sliding value of the rupee has made overseas higher education more expensive. While the U.K. and U.S. are the top two destinations of choice, students are increasingly applying to universities in Canada and Germany, where they perceive education to be cheaper and employment opportunities to be robust. Canada stands out in terms of perceived opportunities for permanent migration, while students see Germany as offering world-class opportunities in the automotive, engineering, and manufacturing industries. The number of Indian students in Australia, meanwhile, appears to be rebounding after a precipitous fall following a series of violent attacks on Indian students in 2009.

The report, which is based on a survey of more than 10,000 Indian students as well as an analysis of existing data, is entitled “Inside India: A New Status Quo” – which raises the question, what was the old one? “I think the old status quo was the belief that there would be a continuous, almost limitless number of Indian students that would continue to flow into U.S. universities, U.K. universities, Australian universities, and that has not appeared to be the case,” said Elizabeth Shepherd, the head of research for the British Council’s Education Intelligence team. “There’s new interest in markets like Germany and Canada, decreased interest in the U.K. and the U.S. and fluctuating interest in Australia without a clear-cut trend emerging yet. But the greatest shift has been in India itself.”

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/12/05/british-council-report-argues-new-status-quo-indian-student-mobility#ixzz2mcw8x5jW 
Inside Higher Ed 

Inside Higher Ed shares highlights of a new report released by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE). Here are a few:

• The number of international students in Canada has increased by 94 percent since 2001, climbing to a total of 265,377 in 2012. 
• The top four countries of origin – China, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia – mirror those of the U.S. 
• More than two-thirds of students described opportunities to work full-time in Canada post-graduation and to obtain permanent residency as either "very important" or "essential" factors in their decision to study in Canada.

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HIGHLIGHTS:

OPEN DOORS 2013: REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ON U.S. CAMPUSES ARE AT ALL-TIME HIGH 

• The number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by 7 percent to a record high of 819,644 in the 2012/13 academic year. 
• This 2012/13 data marks the seventh consecutive year that Open Doors reported expansion in the total number of international students in U.S. higher education; there are 40 percent more international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities than there were a decade ago. 
• New enrollments in fall of 2012 were up 10 percent from the prior year.
• Chinese student enrollments increased by 21 percent in total and by 26 percent at the undergraduate level.
• Top 5 countries of origin: China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada. 
• The state of California hosted more than 100,000 international students for the second time this year, followed by New York, Texas, Massachusetts and Illinois.

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