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GERMANY:
Germany is the most attractive
country for international students, gl bal
an annual analysis from Study.Edu
has shown.
The country has made ‘a
considerable improvement in
the number of courses offered in
English’ and its unemployment
rate for university graduates is the perspective
lowest in Europe.
The ‘exceptional’ mix of world-
class education comes at almost
no fees and the cost of living is
moderate, the analysis says. The Gazette editorial team’s
The Study.Edu ranking is based selection of ELT news from
on scores in education, cost, and
life & career. around the world
The 2018 ranking marks the
first time for Russia to make it
into the top five and for Poland to
appear among the top 10. maintain the scholarship funds’ president, the students’ conduct student visas. The passports got
which support most Nigerian during the protest made the students into the Schengen area,
students abroad. teachers ‘feel threatened and granting them freedom to legally
Only a third of the 1.5 million insulted, affecting their work’, travel all over Europe.
people who seek a place at one of according to University World A police source told the
Nigeria’s public universities every News. newspaper: ‘Some of these people
year gain admission. A group of about 30 students probably never set foot in a
The others opt for a more stormed the campus to question classroom and head straight to
expensive private university, or go the point of having to pass a the airport with their visa and
abroad to study, making it a rich compulsory Mandarin module to into the EU.’ James Perry, the
market for countries such as the be awarded a degree. They also chief executive of the Federation
UK and Ghana. argued there was no transparency of English Language Teaching
in the way the test was marked. Organisations (Feltom) said that
HONG KONG : its members would report to the
NIGERIA: Hong Kong Baptist University MALTA: authorities any students missing
Nigeria could become one of the has lifted the suspension of two Non-EU students are enrolling school.
world’s fastest-growing markets students who protested against a into English language courses
for study abroad over the next language test, the international in Malta solely to get a visa and
decade, Icef Monitor reports. press reports. do not attend a single class, The
The cost of studying in a foreign The university is located in the Sunday Times of Malta reports.
country for Nigerians is now lower Cantonese-speaking region of According to a whistleblower,
than it was in 2015-16, when the China and two of its students were the scam started in 2014, when
country’s economy stalled because suspended in January, following a school teamed up with a
of the oil price fall. protests over a mandatory middleman to attract immigrants,
During the recent recession, Mandarin language test. mostly from the UAE, and charged
the government ‘struggled to According to the university’s ‘learners’ thousands of euros for

KOREA: language development. A teachers and improving
The government is to increase comprehensive review of teacher performance. Prior to Minseong Kim
school foreign language English education will take the forthcoming review, the
exchanges, book reading and place throughout 2018 and education ministry will also
discussion in English, the will be chaired by team of consider offering subsidies for
Korea Times reported. The teachers, parents and parent- extra-curricular activities in
move follows complaints from recommended education English for those in third grade
parents after ministers banned experts. The Korea Institute for or above.
extra-curricular English classes Curriculum and Evaluation will ‘Details of the specific plan
for first and second graders also cooperate. The review will will be unveiled at the end of
in 2016, over fears they also look at increasing the year to be implemented next
would affect their Korean the number of native speaker year,’ a ministry official said.

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