Working as I have for a private educational institution with students from over a hundred different countries and staff from thirty different countries, I have been in a culturally diverse environment on a daily basis for almost sixteen years. Both international students and highly skilled migrants are faced with a dynamic challenge – to integrate […]
As a result of the measures to combat the COVID-19 virus, the National Commission has drawn up guidelines on the application of some provisions of the Code of Conduct for International Students in Higher Education. The guidelines were updated on 14th of December 2020. The update concerns the prolongation of the guideline which provides in […]
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As a result of the measures to combat the COVID-19 virus, the National Commission has drawn up guidelines on the application of some provisions of the Code of Conduct for International Students in Higher Education. The guidelines were updated on 22 July 2020. This concerns the possibility to take the compulsory English language test, the […]
In response to the measures aimed at fighting the COVID-19 virus, in April 2020 the National Committee has drawn up guidelines with regard to the application of several provisions in the Code of Conduct for International Students in Higher Education. The guidelines were updated on 16 June 2020. The guidelines relate to the ability of […]
In April the Commission published an extra edition of this newsletter to inform you about the guidelines established in coordination with the umbrella organizations, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry of Justice and Security, and the Immigration and Naturalisation Service. These guidelines concern the option to excuse international students who fall behind […]
If an international student does not satisfy all the requirements for admission to a given degree programme but the educational institution expects they can make up those deficiencies in a relatively short time span, that student can be admitted to a preparatory track. Preparatory tracks can focus on English proficiency, on supplementary subjects required for […]
These are unusual times we’re living in, in a period where everything is dominated by Covid-19. That certainly applies to internationalization, international students and international lecturers and researchers. Uncertainty, unease and even unrest are things we’re all feeling now. On the other hand, we’re also experiencing the creativity and innovation of higher education in coming […]
The guidelines were approved on 15 April 2020 and shall apply throughout the period during which the measures to fight the COVID-19 virus are in effect. Background In response to the measures aimed at fighting the COVID-19 virus, several questions have arisen among the educational institutions with regard to the application of provisions in the […]
The world I grew up in was very small. Not only did we hardly leave the village where we lived, but even in the village itself there were two separate communities that – as I remember – lived entirely alongside each other, with separate churches, separate schools, separate football clubs, separate everything. We had two […]
