Saxion Universitiesare pleased to inform you about our Bachelors and Masters programmes for the 2007-2008 academic year. We have been offering these programmes for more than ten years now and they have proven to be extremely popular with students from around the world.

At present we have students taking our Bachelors and Masters programmes from countries as diverse as Indonesia, India, China, Taiwan,Russia, Germany, Brasil, Rwanda, Japan, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Vietnam,Hungary, and Turkey. See Saxion University

• Eased entry conditions for expat doctors and researchers

Expat doctors and researchers who study to become a specialist in the Netherlands will find it easier to obtain work here after 1 November. The Cabinet decided  to ease regulations governing 'knowledge workers' to stimulate the skills economy. The government hopes the easing of regulations will lead to a fall in the shortage of high-educated workers, RTL reported.

Currently, employers can only employ staff from outside of Europe if they can't find workers within Europe. But in future, they will no longer need to obtain a permit to employ workers from outside the EU if they are recruiting doctors or researchers. Read more: Eurogates.Forum

• Spain 'needs four million immigrants' by 2020

Spain will need at least 4 million more immigrants - between 16 and 64 – by 2020, according to a study. The report, prepared by the regional government of Catalonia,looked ahead to the situation in 2020. It said the nation's relatively low birth rate was not sufficient to provide Spain with the workers it would need in the coming decades.

Project coordinator Josep Oliver, a professor of applied economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said this was the minimum number of immigrants needed to keep the economy growing at the pace of the past decade. The report also said a minimum level of social and educational policies should be maintained to ensure that as many native Spaniards as possible enter the labour force.

Oliver said immigration was "unavoidable and necessary" because "if no one else enters, there will be a significant aging of the population," and, as a result, a lack of workers, so "if we do not have them here, they will come from outside". Read more: Eurogates.Forum

• Belgium: A tale of two languages

In Brussels, the double-named metro stations are potentially confusing, at least for new arrivals in Belgium. Visiting an international friend who lives near metro Louise, I duly noted I needed to change metro at Arts-Loi. As the train pulled in I saw the station name clearly. I then turned my head around to collect my bag and then back again. The word Kunst-Wet appeared to be in the place where previously I had seen Arts-Loi.

For a split second I thought that I hadn't arrived and that this was the station before my stop. My brain struggled to deal with the conflicting messages. Knowing that Kunst is Art in Dutch, I quickly deduced it was the same station and stepped out wondering how many visitors, perhaps with no knowledge of either language or knowledge of only one, had been thrown by this, despite being aware of Belgium's language divide. Read more: Eurogates.Forum

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