International tuition fees for the 2016-17 academic year are set to rise, marking a 30% increase in tuition fees for a non-laboratory based subject since 2012, when the cost stood at £12,600. From next year, incoming international non-EU students who study a non-laboratory based subject will be asked to pay £16,500, while those studying a… Read More »

The Finnish government has submitted to parliament a bill to reintroduce tuition fees to be imposed on students from outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA), local media has reported. The proposed payment threshold is 1,500 euro (1665.6 U.S. dollars) per academic year, and will be applied to bachelor’s and master’s… Read More »

A person who has been resident in the Island for an unbroken period of five years which ends after October 1 will be an Isle of Man worker. The old legislation imposed certain conditions if the person left the island after the five-year period. Nurses and social workers, both occupations where there are skills shortages,… Read More »

Several golden visa schemes have been launched by European countries in recent years. All have differing levels of investment in real estate to qualify but more importantly the residency and citizenship benefits of the various programmes can vary greatly.The essential ingredient of each programme is the granting of a residency visa subject to a certain… Read More »

BERLIN: Immigration to Germany soared 15 percent in the first half of the year, thanks to an influx of people from European countries hit hard by the eurozone crisis, official figures showed Thursday. Germany registered about 500,000 new arrivals between January and June against 318,000 who left, preliminary figures from the federal statistics office Destatis. Germany registered about… Read More »