Plans for a major shake-up of Lithuanian higher education are underway as the country struggles to stem the tide of talent leaving the Baltic state to work and study abroad. While most of the talk about cross-border student mobility is about the positive benefits – at least for those on the move – the ‘brain […]
Read the rest of this entry »Is Sweden recovering from the international student crash?
Swedish universities are looking to build on the first signs of recovery in the international student market following the collapse in overseas applications when ‘full-cost’ tuition fees were introduced for non-EU/EEA students in 2011.But they face a massive uphill task. Many feel more should be done to sweeten the attractiveness of Sweden’s higher education with […]
Read the rest of this entry »International spotlight on Swedish universities
It is not just England where much of the buzz around higher education is about tuition fees. For Sweden has started charging non-EU/EEA students around €10,000-a-year and the consequences could be far-reaching, as NIC MITCHELL finds out. SWEDEN has had one of the best-resourced higher education systems for years, with Universitas 21 – a global […]
Read the rest of this entry »Stormy start to 2013 for German higher education
A new series of occasional blogs on higher education trends in different countries and issues facing European universities starts by looking at Germany. I have Sweden and the UK lined-up on the horizon and hope the blogs help increase understanding on what’s happening in in higher education around Europe. NOT the start to 2013 that […]
Read the rest of this entry »Fees rise, Applications fall and an Access Tsar row
I’m getting asked more and more by my friends and colleagues in mainland Europe: What’s going on in British higher education? It is a fair question and one that we keep asking ourselves! Just when we think it is sorted, we find higher education thrust back on to the front pages as another row ‘engulfs’ […]
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