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Thriving, not surviving: six levers for recruitment resilience

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The UK government is increasingly adding measures to curb over-recruitment and UK universities are at risk of losing prospective students if visa policies change. As global competition for international students intensifies, we’re working with our UK partners to build student recruitment resilience for the years ahead. Sign up here.

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Employers Shift Back to In-Person Recruiting on College Campuses

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As schools and workplaces return to in-person post-pandemic, so is college recruiting, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Dr. Mary Gatta The 2023 Recruiting Benchmarks Report examines survey data from a NACE survey conducted from April-May 2023. recruiters in 2023, down from 9.0

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Hong Kong eyes India to diversify recruitment

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With the aim of diversifying their undergraduate student cohorts, Hong Kong universities are set to use a sizeable grant to turn to India as the main destination from which to recruit students. No specific date has yet been set, The PIE understands. The vast majority of international student still come from mainland China.

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Dutch recruitment ‘cease and desist’ a “wake-up call”

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A director at a Dutch university has called the “cease and desist order” given to the country’s institutions on international student recruitment “a wake-up call”. In the meantime, he recounted, a letter that was sent to universities late 2022 has already asked them to halt international student recruitment until a solution can be found.

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University recruiters are taking bribes, say Indian agents

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Education agents in India are concerned about the spread of unethical practices among university recruitment teams working in the country, including alleged incidents of bribery, favouritism and conflicts of interest. . Facing a large volume of applicants, institutions also often have ‘priority lists’ that will be reviewed more quickly.

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Over 800,000 international students in Canada in 2022

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Canada hosted over 800,000 international students in 2022 – an increase of almost a third in one year, according to new government data. The new figures surpass by some way Canada’s target figure of 450,000 foreign students by 2022 set out in the country’s 2014 international education strategy.

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UK ‘must prioritise’ European recruitment to maintain global position

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The UK must prioritise student recruitment in Europe if it is to maintain and improve its global study destination position further, according to new research. “Recruitment from across Europe has long been vitally important to our universities,” said Jamie Arrowsmith, director of UUKi.