Study Tours with A Royal Connection
Australian International Student Tours (AIST) and Emmanual Anglican College, Ballina, got to polish their crown recently as sponsors of the...
Australian Schools Improve in PISA Results Avoiding Declines of Other Countries
In December of last year, the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) announced its yearly data. PISA assesses the...
How Global is an Australian High School Education?
“It’s a small world after all,” is a refrain we hear outside of Disneyland. Even when borders were closed during...
OpenApply Admissions Conference in Singapore a Success
It was fantastic this week to be at the OpenApply Admissions Conference in Singapore at Tanglin Trust from November 3-4,...
A+ for International Admissions from Educate Plus
Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting on a panel for the Educate Plus Roundtable for Admissions for the...
Schools sector survey shows the future is bright
This quarter, there is a lot of activity globally in the international schools sector. The Australian International Education Conference (AIEC)...
Is Australia being left behind with ‘English Only’ Education?
According to ISC Research, bilingual schools have experienced a 7.9% increase around the world since 2011. Globally there are 12,281...
Affluent Neglect in Overseas Students
Some time back, I was having coffee with a registrar from a prominent Sydney school who told me about an...
Australian High Schools: What do Agents think?
With the Australian schools sector showing growth post covid and with many younger students coming to Australia, The Koala News...
Snapshot: Great News for Schools and particularly for the Sunshine State
According to the latest data on international student commencements from the Government (Austrade Pivot tables), YTD May Schools Sector commencements...
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