Philippines, like Ukraine, China and some other eastern European countries, has been one of the ‘noiseless’ hot destinations for students from India interested in pursuing medical education for years before Ukraine-Russia war, made it noticeable with the emergency evacuation rescue operation ‘Ganga’ from Ukraine. Covid 19 pandemic had already got this severely impacted huge student population in the spotlight. National …

The spat between Canada and India over killing of a ‘terrorist’, a PIO who Canada says was now its citizen by unknown gunmen in British Columbia in June this year, has taken an ugly turn with diplomatic expulsions from both countries. The frosty ties of several months on the issue of support, protection and promotion that Sikh separatists have been …

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), the top-ranked Educational Institute in the country, has become the first IIT in the country to launch an international campus, which is coming up in Zanzibar-Tanzania. An MoU was recently signed between India and Tanzania, the final procedural step that paves the way for this campus. Zanzibar Campus, IIT Madras (https://www.iitm.ac.in/zanzibar/) will be located in …

174 Indian students, over 50% of them women, have been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarships for the degree programmes starting in the academic year 2023-24. This is the biggest-ever cohort of Indian students to be awarded scholarships under an annual selection. Worldwide, 2,835 students from 143 different countries have been awarded scholarships. The Indian students who have received a …

UK-based Coventry University has announced that The India Hub will open towards the end of this year, and will be the sixth in Coventry University Group’s network of Global Hubs, joining those in Brussels, Dubai, Africa, China and Singapore. The newly appointed regional MD, Leena Arora Kukreja  will be the most senior representative of the university group in the region …

As per a new restriction announced a few days ago by the UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, foreign students won’t be allowed to travel with their family members to the United Kingdom effective from January 2024. Also, international students will no longer be able to switch out of the student route into work routes before their studies are completed “to …