Welcome to the 115th issue!

This month we are excited to launch the 2008 InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest, our third annual contest! The competition features a $3,000 Grand Prize, great runner-up prizes, and an internationally-renowned judging panel to choose our winner.

Good luck in the contest, and have a great September!

Ross Mason

Editor, InternationalStudent.com

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Its official - the 2008 Travel Video Contest has launched!

This year, the contest will be bigger and better than ever, with a grand prize of $3,000, several runner-up prizes, and easier submission. And check out our judging panel - all experts from the field of international education who will help us pick this year's winners.

We were blown away last year by the quality of the videos we received, and can't wait to see what this year brings. Take a look at the 2007 winning video, "to Papa," from Shani Gur, a worthy successor to Matt Brattin, our 2006 winner, who still authors our Study Abroad Blog.

The videos must be no more than 5 minutes in length, and will be judged on creativity, video production, editing quality, originality, interest level in the proposed trip, and pure subjectivity on the part of the judges. The complete rules and regulations are available on the website. The competition closes on the 31st October 2008 and the winners will be announced shortly thereafter - so get shooting and find out more at:

http://www.internationalstudent.com/contest/

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Germany Still the Third Most Popular International Education Destination
(from MarketWatch.com)

Germany attracted 246,000 international students in 2007, outranked only by the United States (590,200) and Great Britain (318,400), according to the 2008 edition of the survey "Wissenschaft - weltoffen," co-edited by the German Academic ExchangeService (DAAD).

In 2007, 12.5 percent of all university students in Germany came from abroad. Almost a third (32 percent) of the foreign students registered at a German university is of Chinese origin, closely followed by students from Eastern European countries (31 percent), mainly Bulgarians and Poles. The survey on the internationalization of German universities shows that the number of foreign students holding a German university degree has doubled over the last seven years, proving the high quality of education and academic advising at German higher education institutions. The survey, "also found an increase of foreign female students studying in Germany, as well as an increasing interest in German universities by foreign-born engineering students."

Read the rest of the story at MarketWatch.com.

Indian Students in Australia are Well-Behaved and Sought After

(from the Times of India online)

Indian overseas students are the second largest cohort of international students in Australia and they seldom breach immigration rules. Only 16 out of 63,500 Indian overseas students enrolled in Australian education institutions had in the past three years breached student visa rules and spent some time in a detention centre.

"The number speaks for itself. Indian students have a high visa compliance rate and they are a very important part of the Australia's $12.5 billion (US $11 billion) education export industry," a spokesman for the immigration and citizenship department told.

Read the rest of the story in the Times of India.

The fastest-growing language in the world, Spanish currently has about the same number of native speakers as English. By 2050, it is estimated that 550 million people around the world will speak Spanish.

You can combine language learning with certain activities from a particular region or country. For example, learning Spanish in Spain might include learning Flamenco dancing, or Spanish in Cost Rica might include Salsa dancing. If your plan is to learn Spanish in Mexico, you might find out about Mexican cooking, while in Argentina you might partake in wine tasting, and in Venezuela, a language course might include a trip to the Amazonian jungle.

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