International students to pay hefty deposit

JONESBORO, AR–South Asia residents, as of Jan. 1, 2009, will be required to pay a $10,000 tuition deposit to ASU before being formally accepted to the university and issued an I-20 form. The new requirement, approved by ASU’s Board of Trustees during its Friday meeting at ASU-Mountain Home, came full story

How Can International Students Get Financial Aid?

US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT–Fatima recently posted this question on our financial aid forum: “Hey there! I am sooo desperate and I need your help! I just found out that I got admission for CSU East Bay! Unfortunately, I wanted to get a student loan over here in Germany, but they  full story

Foreign Student Series: First Steps

VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS–This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series, we discuss the first steps for students interested in higher education in the United States. One place to go for advice and information about American colleges and universities is an EducationUSA center.  full story

Foreign Student Series: An Introduction

VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS–This is the VOA Special English Education Report. A listener in Poland recently sent us an e-mail. Slawek Loboda writes: “There are many American universities and colleges that provide long distance education to the world. The trouble is that each university says that it is the best. full story

Newcomers cope with cultural isolation

NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA–David Castro, a Mexican native who moved to Noblesville two years ago, is part of the second-fastest growing minority population in Hamilton County. Since 2000, more than 4,500 Hispanics have relocated here, an increase of 158 percent. Yet Castro, a 38-year-old controller for the Ingersoll-Rand Co., said he is adjusting to his new home in isolation, culturally. full story

Hispanic-run businesses are growing in Westfield

WESTFIELD, INDIANA–When Maracela Cortes moved to Westfield 10 years ago, there were few Hispanic-run businesses in Indianapolis or Hamilton County. “There were no Mexican stores in all of Indianapolis, maybe just two,” she said. “And here, there were definitely none.” A decade later, businesses owned by Hispanics are much more common. full story

County adapts to a diverse population

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA–Henry Fernandez was a child when Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro took over his native country, and his family immigrated to the United States. Fernandez’s family moved from Havana to Madrid, his mother’s native country. In 1966, when he was 9, his family came to full story

Initiative seeks to ban bilingual classes

PORTLAND, OR–Oregon voters get to decide how to reach and teach children with limited English this fall as the hot-button immigration issue makes it to a statewide ballot. Initiative promoter Bill Sizemore proposes scrapping bilingual education and English as a Second Language classes – now taught to one in 10 Portland Public Schools students.  full story

Modules take pressure off training

CAMBRIDGE, UK–Cambridge Esol, the UK-based exam board responsible for globally popular English language assessment tests such as First Certificate and Ielts, has made a virtue of the slow pace at which it embraces change. Aware of the need to maintain users’ confidence, Cambridge prefers to make sure that it has  full story

With program ending, official expects fewer international students will come to province

ST. JOHN’S, CANADA–There may be fewer international students in the province’s classrooms after the provincial government announced Tuesday it will end the program that recruits students and billets them in homes. Brian Shortall, the executive director of the Newfoundland and Labrador School Boards Association, said the end of the full story  related story  another related story