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Slowing growth in foreign secondary enrolment carries important implications...
A new report from the Institute of International Education (IIE) highlights that the number of international secondary students in the US more than tripled between 2004 and 2016. Globally Mobile Youth:...
View ArticleIreland moves to expand student housing stock
Most university students in Ireland (41%) would prefer to live in purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), while another 27% would choose private rental housing. It happens, however, that only about...
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Canadian language programmes register modest growth in 2016
The annual Languages Canada survey finds marginal year-over-year growth among the association’s 222 member programmes for 2016. Members reported total enrolment of 135,425 students for the year, an...
View ArticleUK: Net migration questioned again as new data shows 97% of international...
New data from border exit checks has led the UK’s Office for National Statistics to conclude that “there is no evidence of a major issue of non-EU students overstaying their entitlement to stay.” In...
View ArticleBrazilian outbound continues to strengthen with a trend to longer stays abroad
The Brazilian Educational and Language Travel Association (Belta) has expanded on its annual agent survey with a complementary survey of former or prospective students. In combination, the two research...
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Australia: Growth remains strong at mid-year
The latest year-to-date enrolment data for Australia paints a picture of continuing growth as the halfway point in the year approaches. Department of Education and Training (DET) numbers for YTD May...
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Is your email mobile enough?
People like to say that email is still the “killer app” when it comes to reaching and engaging prospects. And they’re right. Certainly this is true in international student recruitment, where, even as...
View ArticleSpecialised camps are raising the bar for junior programmes
The junior segment is big business for leading ELT (English-language training) destinations and an increasingly important growth segment in a global market where overall year-over-year gains are now in...
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New report maps student expectations for language study
In recent years, the International Association of Language Centres (IALC) has published a series of studies that contribute to our understanding of the global language learning market. The latest of...
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2017 Agent Barometer survey links student and agent perceptions with...
Now in its 11th year, the annual ICEF i-graduate Agent Barometer continues to be a landmark survey of the practices and perceptions of education agents around the world. The 2017 edition was released...
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Record-high foreign enrolment in US but commencements decline for the first...
The US remains the world’s leading destination with a record-high 1.08 million foreign students enrolled in 2016/17. This represents a 3.4% increase over the year before (or the equivalent of roughly...
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Global survey highlights regional trends for English proficiency
The 7th annual EF English Proficiency Index (EPI) was released earlier this month. As in previous years, the EPI ranks the proficiency of non-native-speaking countries around the world – the field has...
View ArticleFrom the field: Where are Mexican students going now?
Mexico remains one of the largest Latin American markets for education, and is second only to Brazil in terms of the size of its population and economy. Despite continuing fluctuations in the rate of...
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Canada’s international student enrolment surged in 2016
The latest enrolment data from Canada reveals a big jump in international student numbers in the country in 2016. Speaking at the Canadian Bureau for International Education’s (CBIE) annual conference...
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How language schools are integrating online with traditional delivery
The age of online learning is well underway. Enrolment in the burgeoning field of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has nearly tripled since 2014, and this growth curve has been helped along by the...
View ArticleUS ELT numbers trending down in 2017
A fall 2017 member survey conducted by English USA reveals that a majority of Intensive English Programmes (IEPs) in the US are reporting continued declines in enrolment this year. English USA is the...
View ArticleYear in review: What we learned in 2017
Here comes 2018 around the corner, and many of us have already booked travel, laid plans, and otherwise set the stage for another fast-paced year in international education. But before all that, let’s...
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Japan well on its way to 300,000 international students
For the fifth consecutive year, international student numbers have grown in Japan. The latest statistics from the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) indicate that as of May 2017, 267,040...
View ArticleMore than 200,000 Japanese students abroad in 2016
New data from the Japan Association of Overseas Studies (JAOS) suggests that more than 200,000 Japanese students were studying abroad in 2016 in university, college, secondary school, and language...
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From the Field: South African ELT rebounding this year
In 2015, South Africa’s English Language Teaching (ELT) enrolment went off a cliff. The year before, the South African government had passed new immigration legislation that effectively excluded...
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