Editor’s note – Updated post: the original version of this post incorrectly reported Germany’s international enrolment at 75,000 for the year 2000, whereas it was...
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Europe takes stock of its international student recruitment strategies
As competition for international students intensifies around the world, the European Union is increasingly interested in promoting member countries – and indeed, the entire Eurozone...
Part 2: MOOC development continues to pick up speed… around the world
ICEF Monitor returns to MOOCs today with the second half of a two-part look at the current state of the online education landscape. With ongoing...
Top trends in strategy and pricing for educational travel providers
Today’s two-part video interview covers the top trends in strategy and pricing for the educational travel industry. ICEF Monitor sits down with Mr Samuel Vetrak,...
The European Union is taking steps to make it easier and more attractive for non-EU students and academics to study and work in Europe. A...
As the international schools market continues its expansion, ICEF Monitor reviews some riveting statistics as well as the growth drivers behind the trend. International school...
Sales in 2012 remained stable for most language travel agencies in Switzerland and the outlook is optimistic, with anticipated growth in 2013, according to the...
Luring the increasingly mobile and discerning international student has evolved into a high stakes affair for educational institutions, one complicated by rising competitive pressures as...
According to The Daily Dot, “Tumblr” surpassed “blog” in December as one of the most searched terms on Google, thus confirming the slow fall of...
Recently, ICEF Monitor looked at how to appeal to the Chinese market by crafting marketing messages to reflect their propensity for luxury brands and experiences....
Nuffic – the Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education – regularly releases country modules, which offer information on the education systems of about...
“STEM workers are disproportionately involved in creating and running successful tech companies … and coming up with breakthrough inventions …. It’s not an exaggeration to...
Drawing upon a cosmopolitan, multilingual society with strong historical ties to the West, the Lebanese student market presents an inviting prospect to international educators from...
Do you like good market data as much as we do? How about informative data visualisations? Well, you can find both in a new interactive...
As opportunities to study and work around the world increase, the global education industry has witnessed the development of an opportunity unique to its field:...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released the 2012 edition of Education at a Glance, which enables countries to see themselves in...
A recent European University Association (EUA) report, “Mobility: Closing the gap between policy and practice,” is the outcome of a two-year project, known as MAUNIMO...
University World News is reporting that growth predicted from 2000-30 is likely to be higher than that experienced between 1970 and 2000. The number of...
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Facts & Figures
600,000 students go to the UK each year to learn English, which contributes GBP 2 billion to the UK economy. (British Council)
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International students contributed US $22.7 billion to the US economy in 2011-12. (IIE Open Doors)
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Subjects international students take while in the US: Business (22%), Engineering (19%), Science (18%). (IIE Open Doors)
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Forrester Research predicts that in 2014, 1.3 billion people in China will have mobile devices, and 75% of them will access the internet via their mobile devices.
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44% of prospective students in the US have “liked” a college on a social network; 57% watch videos created by the college, and 53% read posts about the college via social media. (FastWeb)
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14% of prospective students in the US have viewed a college website via their mobile device; 62% of them wanted to access a college’s social media properties and 64% to watch a college’s videos. (Noel-Levitz)
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