In an interview with WENR, Larissa Bezo, President and CEO of CBIE, discusses Canada’s international education challenges, key survey findings, and strategies for supporting international students. As a GLOW ED award recipient, she shares her vision for the sector’s future.
Outbound student mobility from Ghana has grown significantly, with the U.K. and U.S. being the most popular study destinations, followed by Canada, Germany, and increasingly China. Recent visa restrictions may lead to a decline in the number of Ghanaian students in the U.K.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and its second-largest economy, has seen its outbound student mobility quadruple over two decades, reaching nearly 85,000 in 2021. While Western destinations remain popular, an increasing number of Nigerian students are now pursuing education in China.
Sub-Saharan Africa will become an increasingly important recruitment market for international students. This article, the first part of a three-part series, explores general developments in sub-Saharan Africa.
Medical education in North America is increasingly being outsourced overseas. Offshore Medical Universities have become commonplace in the Caribbean. Increasing numbers of physicians now receive their basic medical education at overseas schools that have less stringent admission requirements and operate under different regulations and quality assurance standards than medical schools in the U.S. and Canada.