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It’s been over five years since Lou McLaughlin took the helm of Eaquals – and while she’s certainly now settled in the job, it’s fair to say she’s not settling when it comes to improvements in her sector.

“What I am trying to work very much towards in the last couple of years is that it’s language teaching and training – it’s not just English language teaching,” McLaughlin points out.

“Our working language is English, but the majority do teach English with other languages as well,” she continues.

That’s why Eaquals’s raft of policies are now translated into 14 European languages.

Eaquals is an accreditation body that holds a standard for international language schools across the continent. And its members constantly strive for a strict standard of quality.

“Because we’re international and global, it’s much easier then to be able to actually have that benchmark and comparison irrespective of your base.

“Especially now, irrespective of where you are within the sector – our membership is made up of the higher education and the language schools and the K12 and now online providers as well. We all answer to the same standards, so it makes the conversations much easier,” McLaughlin explains.

She refers to the membership growth that the organisation has seen in recent years. Having celebrated the group’s 30th anniversary in 2021, Eaquals continues to build on its membership demographic.

“It was an experience to try and find how we could help the members in different way”

“Higher education has definitely been a growth area. For example, we’re now at about 21-22% of our membership being in higher education – once we started looking at that, we adjusted the inspection scheme.

“So now our scheme is actually three inspection schemes under the accreditation umbrella – the inspection scheme v7.2, the inspection scheme for HEIs and the inspection scheme for online providers, as a result of everyone moving online and the pandemic,” she recounts.

Eaquals members have lauded the approach the directorate took to the pandemic – the organisation’s immediate shift to responding to online-related needs, as well as online inspections and tailored conversations with each and every member – a large figure which, at the time of writing, stands at 130.

“It was an experience to try and find how we could help the members in different ways. What was really essential was providing training, as in, ‘this is how you deliver online’. It seems strange to say it now,” she muses.

Between the setup of a plurilingual webinar series fuelled by members’ suggestions – which still runs to this day – Q&A sessions and getting members within a country to meetups, there was an understanding, McLaughlin says, that everybody was having a different experience – something the organisation did not take lightly.

McLaughlin’s own experience of running things with a fresh outlook stemmed from her time creating what is now the central base for Irish ELT providers – ELT Ireland.

After running a language school in Spain, McLaughlin returned to Ireland, where she eventually created the association – something, she says, gave her the experience for her Eaquals position.

“[ELT Ireland] was striving to make sure there was an actual network for people – they just weren’t getting it in Ireland. At the time, the goal was to begin looking outward, and starting to network and then getting people talking about best practice.”

It seems it was always in the cards that language schools would be in McLaughlin’s outlook. Her whole career, she has been in a language school in some capacity – first, as a teacher, then as the head of a language school in Spain – now, overseeing a network of quality-assured language schools keeps her on that trajectory.

“With Eaquals it’s not just the very high quality, but also the support of that high quality. For me there’s a big difference. It’s not just, ‘this is how you do it’. It’s more working with the school towards what we think would work in their context, and then there’s the ‘here’s how to do it’.

“I just really like that practical digest approach,” she adds.

“In terms of post-pandemic study travel, we’re still getting there”

In terms of what’s next for Eaquals, McLaughlin continues to strive for more.

“We needed to have a scheme for online providers because looking ahead, some are going to stay online – not everybody, but some will, and so we wanted to be able to provide that,” she says, which is now operational.

As membership continues to swell post-pandemic, she is optimistic for what’s ahead.

“In terms of post-pandemic study travel, we’re still recovering, but I would say it’s actually quite exciting to think that going into 2023, things should start properly falling into place.”

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Online learning specialist upGrad has partnered with student accommodation marketplace Casita to offer student housing options on the tech platform.

The partnership will allow upGrad to recommend Casita’s service to students, with the hope that it will streamline the student pathway.

“The partnership further demonstrates the shared student-first focus by both organisations”

“The partnership with Casita further demonstrates the shared student-first focus by both organisations,” Jerry Czub, upGrad Abroad vice president, University Partnerships – North America, said in a statement.

“[It also] allows upGrad Abroad students the ability to source accommodation no matter what partner institution they decide to join after completing their program with us.”

The partnership comes at a time where both organisations are seeing “phenomenal global growth”, director and co-founder of Casita, Leigh Pulford, added.

In 2020, Casita increased its student accommodation stock to over 1 million rooms across more than 60 countries.

“The new partnership ensures that upGrad students, no matter where they are studying, can avail of the best customer service when booking their room abroad,” Pulford noted.

With offices in the UK, US, the Middle East, India, Singapore and Vietnam, upGrad has reached more than two million students across 100 countries to date. Core geographies for upGrad learners include the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Germany, the provider has previously said.

However, the edtech industry has seen widening losses, and despite being valued at more than $2 billion last year, Reuters reported on January 10, upGrad’s CEO, Arjun Mohan, stepped down in December.

The company’s international education division, upGrad Abroad said in eight months leading up to March 2022, it had enrolled 1,500 learners and onboarded 18 partner universities.

It had set a target of enrolling more than 25,000 learners and cross an annual revenue run rate of $130 million by 2023.

upGrad’s ability to offer online courses to start with before students move to on-campus learning would “exponentially” open up the study abroad market, president, Ankur Dhawan, said at the time.

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Essay mill companies are still “thriving” in the UK despite legislation designed to stamp them out, The PIE News has learned.

The PIE found examples on Twitter of companies that were offering essay writing services, with some specifically targeting international students.

This is despite essay mills being criminalised in England as part of the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill last year.

One twitter account called “Top Essay” tweeted: “Essay writing service for ten years, has been the UK region for international students to provide high-quality reliable British essay writing”

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The profile provided a link to a website called www.essay666.com. The PIE found multiple accounts (ukessay6689 and ukessay4444) that were offering similar services to international students in the UK, all which had a link back to this website.

Another company called Essay Mills was offering essay writing services, as well as English language assistance to international students.

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— Essay Mills (@EssayMillsUK) January 10, 2023

The PIE contacted essay666.com and Essay Mills for comment but did not receive a reply.

The Department of Education told The PIE that under current legislation, which came into force on June 28, 2022, it is a criminal offence to provide or arrange for another person to provide contract cheating services for financial gain to students enrolled at a higher education provider in England.

“We’re still seeing essay mills operating as so many of them are based outside England”

It is also an offence for a person to make arrangements for an advertisement in which that person offers, or is described as being available or competent, to provide or arrange for another person to provide a cheating service.

However, experts have said that it is a challenge to stop essay mill companies from operating – especially if they are based in other countries.

“We’re still seeing essay mills operating as so many of them are based outside England, so it would be very difficult to enforce the current law,” academic integrity expert, Thomas Lancaster of Imperial College London, told The PIE.

“What we really need is more provision to prevent these sites from advertising to UK students and being featured in their social media feeds.”

Given that the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill currently only applies to England, Lancaster called for similar provision in the other constituent parts of the UK.

Lancaster told The PIE that there are “certainly companies out there that target international students”.

“Some of them advertise in languages other than English too. There are even services that connect with students prior to starting their degrees, so the student knows that they will have someone to call on when they are stuck,” he said.

He warned that there was a possibility that international students would be blackmailed if they used essay mills and that they run the risk of many problems in the future.

Enforcement

The DfE said that students and education providers are the front line of defence in tackling the problem.

The department added that new legislation serves as a tool to strengthen and enhance sector-led work already taking place to detect, deter and address incidents of cheating.

Government officials will continue to engage with the Office for Students, and other stakeholders and organisations with an interest in this area to help raise awareness of the new legislation and seek support for its effective implementation.

The Office for Students said that it has signed an agreement with National Trading Standards that provides a more direct route to considering breaches of consumer protection law, including essay mills.

This agreement is a guarantee that National Trading Standards will examine each notification referred by the OfS. Either organisation could take action within the confines of their legislative framework, which would be on a case-by-case basis.

However, industry leaders have questioned whether the current system is working.

“Any signs that the system isn’t working and that these companies are still thriving worries me”

Nick Hillman, director of HEPI, told The PIE that the continued presence of essay mills is concerning.

“It took a long time to persuade the government to act. So any signs that the system isn’t working and that these companies are still thriving worries me,” he said.

“I think we’ve all seen the evidence on social media that these companies are still active,” he added.

Hillman said that essay mills are “too important an issue to just fall through the cracks”, and called for consistent monitoring.

“The fact that it has taken The PIE’s journalism to flag this issue suggests that the success of the new measures has not been perhaps monitored by official bodies in the way that might happen in other areas where the law has changed.” 

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education campaigned for the introduction of the legislation to ban essay mills and their advertising for several years. However, a spokesperson said that legislation is only one part of the solution.

“QAA continues to support higher education institutions in tackling this issue through guidance across a range of areas including effective assessment design and approaches to investigating academic misconduct,” it said.

“We have also engaged with devolved governments to discuss the introduction of similar legislation across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,” it added.

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Traditional pathway providers have announced new agreements with institutions while other competing companies are introducing new offers to the market.

In the UK, Cambridge Education Group has revealed a new partnership with Loughborough University, while Canada’s Braemar College has announced an extension of its partnership with the University of Toronto, in the form of the Toronto Pathway.

Study Group has recently also renewed its decade-long partnership University College Dublin, and the Dublin International Study Centre will now run until at least 2026.

Managing director for UK and Europe at the pathway provider, James Pitman, said the extended agreement will offer Study Group and UCD the “opportunity to expand and diversify our recruitment ambitions together as we continue to widen student participation in global education post-pandemic”.

“[The agreement is] a real vote of confidence in our partnership”

The agreement is “a real vote of confidence in our partnership”, he added.

LeapScholar has also now launched its latest hybrid partnership targeting Indian students that it says will offer an engineering pathway “at a much lower cost”.

The deal with private research institution Case Western Reserve University in the US will see LeapScholar bring the institution’s Computer Science MS to Indian students.

The program will partly be delivered in India and the rest on-campus in Cleveland, Ohio, with the partners promoting the opportunity for STEM degree graduates to qualify for a three-year post-study work visa upon graduation.

The hybrid format will reduce the cost of the program by almost 40% (approximately US$39,996), they added, and the need for GRE/GMAT and English proficiency test scores has been waived.

“With the demand for STEM programs rising, the latest partnership with CWRU will bring their popular engineering program to Indian students in a hybrid format, and at a much lower cost,” Vaibhav Singh, co-founder of Leap said, of the program starting August 2023.

The Charles H. Phipps dean of the Case School of Engineering, Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan, added that the “innovative hybrid learning platform… leverages the unique assets of the graduate engineering programs in both institutions to deliver high-quality education and strengthens the CWRU presence in India”.

In the UK, CEG’s partnership with Loughborough is an “exciting development” in the institution’s internationalisation plan, according to vice-chancellor and president, Nick Jennings.

Under the agreement, Loughborough will join CEG’s ONCAMPUS portfolio, which has 22 partnerships worldwide, to create a dedicated on-campus education centre.

It will give international students a pathway to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, with the first students set to be welcomed from September 2023.

“Expanding the international diversity of our university community and offering a more culturally enriching experience for all our students and staff are key aims of our strategic plan,” Jennings said.

“The partnership with CEG will enable us to take a significant step forward in that ambition, and also help us to grow our global reputation.”

Competitor, INTO University Partnerships, has recently developed an in-country pathway model, which will see the provider open University Access Centres in markets worldwide. NCUK has partnered with The Royal Colosseum and Beaconhouse International College, both in Pakistan, to deliver foundation year courses.

But on-campus is still important for pathway providers. For example, OIEG and Kaplan signed new partnerships in the US and Australia in 2022.

Like Study Group and UCD, which have been collaborating for a number of years, Braemar College has extended a long-standing agreement with University of Toronto.

The partners have been formally working together since 2014, and the new program takes the collaboration to the next level, Blair McDonald, director of Braemar College, said.

“With the Toronto Pathway, we’ve put everything we learned into one exclusive program”

“Over the years, Braemar College has sent more students to the University of Toronto than to any other university in Canada,” he said.

The program “provides full-spectrum support”, including one-on-one tutoring across subject fields, language proficiency tutoring and testing, detailed monthly reports to parents, and admissions support.

Braemar saw a growing demand for an “enhanced pathway to get ambitious students ready for Canada’s top university” after the disruption of the pandemic, McDonald continued.

“With the Toronto Pathway, we’ve put everything we learned into one exclusive program. We’ve designed it not only to prepare students to meet the University of Toronto’s challenging entrance criteria.

“It also gives our students the essential skills they’ll need—not just to survive their undergraduate programs, but to thrive.”

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International doctoral students who are arriving in Sweden from China are being told to sign agreements and guidelines to the Chinese government, an investigation has revealed.

The Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter has obtained evidence of letters being written by Chinese doctoral students before their entry into Sweden apparently “swearing loyalty” to the ruling Communist party in their home country, among other agreements.

The regime requires that they also must “serve the interests of the regime” and “never participate in ‘activities’ that go against the will of the authorities”, the report said. 

In addition, the agreement states that there is a possibility that if they go against what is written in the letters, or if their education is “interrupted” their families in China could end up “being in financial debt to the state”.

The newspaper mentioned the Karolinska Institute, Lund University, Uppsala University and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm – and said it had identified at least 30 students who went through the Chinese Scholarship Council stream and had signed these agreements.

“This is exactly how dictatorships work”

The CSC is run by China’s education ministry, and promotes international academic exchange with universities across the world – hundreds of Chinese students go through it every year to destinations in the USA, UK, Sweden and others. 

“What really worried me was that there is also a wording that the student’s guarantor, who is usually a close relative, cannot leave the country for an extended period as long as the student is staying abroad,” said David Gisselsson Nord, vice dean for internationalisation at Lund University’s medical department. 

“This is exactly how dictatorships work, that the family is held hostage in the home country. It is unpleasant,” he continued. 

The first alarm bells rang when a student enrolled at Lund University began struggling with his exams and coursework, and was advised not to continue with his course.

“The student then became worried and said the decision would mean big problems for his family in China,” Nord recalled – namely, a letter signed by his relatives stating that they would be liable for damages if he didn’t finish his studies.

“We were surprised, because we had never heard of such a contract,” he added.

However, Nord said that it was only when another student enrolled and they asked to check their documents that they found the letters in question. 

This caused other universities to begin looking into student contracts. The Karolinska Institute, one of Sweden’s top research universities which regularly receives over 30 students a year through collaboration with the CSC – also picked up on the possibility of the existence of the letters. 

“There are uncertainties, for example what is meant by going against the interests of the Chinese state,” said Bob Harris, VC for research studies at the Karolinska Institute.

“We had never heard of such a contract”

“For the time being we have decided not to admit more research students via CSC,” he continued.

Stefan Östlund, vice rector for international relations at the Royal Institute of Technology – locally known as KTH – has refuted the allegations, saying there has been “no evidence” of the letters. 

“We are in talks with Karolinska and CSC about these letters, but in all the years that we have had CSC students, we have never heard or received signals that students would have been harmed because of these letters,” he told DN when approached. 

He continued that he couldn’t be “100% sure”, but staff at the university who speak Chinese have “never picked up signals” of any wrongdoing of that kind. 

Asked regarding the line in the letters signalling students should not “act in the interest of the state”, Östlund was clear that it was a cultural message and was “nothing strange”. 

“I interpret it as that they should behave and do well when they are abroad. Most scholarship organisations have letters like this,” he said.

Despite KTH not pausing its program application portal – which is still available – Uppsala University and Lund have said they will be concluding any involvement with the CSC.

While both Nord and Harris said they are “not critical of the students”, as the students they have worked with have always been “pleasant and well-educated”, Nord conceded there was too much pressure within the letters and it wasn’t in line with Sweden’s Higher Education Ordinance.

Harris told DN that they have been negotiating on the subject since May 2022, but a decision still has not been made. 

Östlund said that people must “know what China is like” as a country on the world stage, but that all countries want their students to represent them well and behave appropriately. 

He insisted that despite the allegation that the letters do not conform to the students’ right to freedom of expression, KTH “understands the problem” and now has a dialogue with the CSC. 

“We cooperate with many countries that have different rules and a different culture than our own, and then there is often a balancing act,” he added.

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The number of African students studying in colleges and universities in Turkey has risen significantly over the past few years.

The numbers have grown to over 60,000 up from around 40,000 since 2019, thanks largely to scholarships by the Turkish government, and are bound to grow even higher in the future as the country intensifies its engagement with Africa.

The numbers currently stand at around 61,000 students, the country’s foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has revealed, saying that increased scholarship grants has been a result of his country’s policy of using education as a key element of cooperation with the continent.

The country views education as “the most important area” for cooperation with the continent the minister says, and will continue to devote its energy and resources in growing the relations, an indication that the numbers are set to grow even higher in the coming years.

“Currently, nearly 61,000 students from the African continent are studying in Türkiye, many of them through Türkiye’s scholarships,” he is quoted saying by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, while opening a Turkish Maarif Research Centre at the University of Pretoria in South Africa last week.

“We are also glad to announce that a memorandum of understanding on scientific and technological cooperation has been signed between our relevant authorities,” the minister added in another meeting with South African government officials in Johannesburg, reinforcing the place of international education in his country’s strategy for engaging Africa.

The minister who was on a five nations tour of Africa South Africa, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe, noted that Turkey had become an “African hub with a growing African diaspora of students and businesspeople” over the past 20 years.

During a December 2021 summit with African heads of state, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan disclosed that Turkey had awarded 14,000 scholarships to African students, and had trained close to 250 African diplomats. The scholarships could be part of the reason for the growth in enrolment.

Last year president Erdoğan revealed that institutions, including Turkish Airlines, TIKA, the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities, the Yunus Emre Institute, the Maarif Foundation and the Turkish Red Crescent, helped the country reach its diplomatic goals.

The use of education as Turkey’s policy of what has been described as soft power approach, meant to win influence over the continent, a method also shared by other emerging and established world powers including India, Russia and China, in the recent past.

The country is using both its study aboard agency Maarif Foundation and the Turkish language council Emre Yunus Institute to drive the growth.

“Currently, nearly 61,000 students from the African continent are studying in Türkiye”

This has seen an expansion of the latter centres across Africa with new centres opened in Somalia, Senegal and Sudan in 2021, the ultimate aim of having a total of 25 such centres across Africa up from the current 10.

The number of international students enrolled in Turkish universities has seen a huge growth in the recent past, hitting 260,000 in 2022 up from 224,000 in 2021, and up from a mere 32,000 a decade ago in 2012.

According to an analysis by Study in Turkey published in 2019, countries sending the most students to Turkey included Syria, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and Germany.

Other top five source countries for international students in Turkey in 2020/21 were Turkmenistan with 19,384; Iraq 14,799; and Iran 11,223, according to YÖK.

In Africa, Egypt led with 5,821 students followed by Nigeria, which had 3,174 students in Turkish universities.

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School and holiday camp provider, Camp Beaumont, has expanded its global presence with new campuses in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

Part of the Inspiring Learning group, Camp Beaumont, provides camps, with lessons conducted entirely in English to encourage new life skills, whilst also focusing on helping children with science, technology, engineering, and maths learning.

“We’re delighted to have successfully expanded our camps to Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. We have seen real tangible benefits for children across the UK who have learnt to be more adaptable and change to situations around them, and it is great to bring this to Asia,” said Andy Marsden, president of Inspiring Learning Asia.

“We have designed our programs to make sure they are fit for the geographical climate, as well as the needs of parents across the world. We’ve had some brilliant uptake so far with word spreading far enough that we even had one parent coming on holiday from the North of Thailand to Bangkok so their children could attend a camp.”

The expansion builds on the group’s presence in the UK and Hong Kong, where it had already been partnering with international schools to offer bespoke outdoor education programs for secondary school children, as well as running its holiday camps.

“We always look to partner with exceptional schools with excellent facilities and a shared ethos to our own. A passion for quality, inclusivity and the desire to bring out the best in each child,” a spokesperson from Camp Beaumont said.

“We always look to partner with exceptional schools with excellent facilities and a shared ethos to our own”

The demand for further campuses partly comes from growing interest from parents in Asian countries to send their children to carry out higher education in Europe, the spokesperson said.

“In our increasingly global society, providing young children across Asia with English language skills and exposure to western culture is definitely a focus for parents,” they continued.

“The growing socio-economic strength of South-East Asia has contributed to parents’ surging aspirations for their children, meaning extra education in English, exposure to Western culture and skills and learning development opportunities which help higher academic performance are becoming highly sought after.”

This year, the group, which hosted over 440 children during summer and autumn, has plans to launch ‘Camp Beaumont residentials’, which will see children from other countries visit host schools and experience what the country has to offer.

Further ahead, the group is looking into opportunities for expansion in India and Vietnam.

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Australian academics are concerned that long waits for PhD visas will make future recruitment harder.

PhD students from countries including Iran, China and Pakistan who hold offers from Australian universities say they have been waiting up to three years to obtain visas. Students estimate that over 300 Iranian doctoral candidates are currently affected.

Iranian student Hamed received an offer for a PhD course in electrical engineering from an Australian university. When he spoke to The PIE in May 2022, he had been waiting two years for a visa decision. Now, tired of deferring, Hamed has secured another scholarship at a UK university. 

“The entirety of [the] UK process, from the interview for the position to the visa admission, took about five months,” Hamed said, adding that he will travel to the UK this month to begin his studies. 

“I am worried that we’ll see a decline in our ability to recruit top PhD students in the coming years”

Academics have warned that they could continue to lose promising students if the situation is not resolved. 

“I am worried that we’ll see a decline in our ability to recruit top PhD students in the coming years,” said Clément Canonne, a computer science lecturer at the University of Sydney. 

“The current situation is damaging our international reputation: why would these top students take the risk of accepting an offer here given that this may mean waiting for months or years without being able to start or without income, and seeing other work and PhD opportunities pass by?”

I personally have a (fully funded) PhD student who has been waiting for their visa for nearly a YEAR, with zero update, email replies, or visibility from @AustGovernment. But yes, no shortage of big talk about the government’s “research priorities”?

— Clément Canonne (@ccanonne@mathstodon.xyz) (@ccanonne_) November 24, 2022

Canonne shared his concerns on Twitter, prompting other academics to weigh in, with some describing the situation as “frustrating” and “unbearable”. 

Data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that 90% of postgraduate research visas are processed in 10 months. In December, home affairs minister Clare O’Neil commented on the issue, saying that some visas “are more complicated than others”. 

“Having young people studying PhDs in our country on areas of significance to our nation is crucially important and we are not going to continue to see that if we are forcing people to wait for years at a time,” she added. 

O’Neil said the government is trying to “get this system working” but that doing so is like “turning the Titanic”. 

In September, the newly-elected government announced that it would review the country’s migration system, with an initial report expected in early 2023.

A spokesperson from the DHA said that offshore student visas were prioritised “for most of 2022” and a record number of these were finalised between July and December 2022. 

“Over this period, over 670 offshore student visas were granted to Iranian nationals,” the spokesperson added. “Almost 200 visa grants were for study in the postgraduate research sector. This is nearly twice the number of offshore student visas granted for this cohort over the same period in 2017/18 through to 2020/21.”

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